Toriyama Sekien
Male, Deceased Person
1712 – 1788
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Who was Toriyama Sekien?
Toriyama Sekien was an 18th-century scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore. He was the teacher of Utamaro and, before taking up printmaking, a painter of the Kanō school. Toriyama is most famous for his attempt to catalogue all species of yōkai in the Hyakki Yagyō series.
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