Nabeta Gyokuei (active 1881-1883), Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912 )Set of thirteen double-page book prints (six framed pieces and seven leaves, two of which are text). Ink and polychrome on paper, from the album "the illustrated book of monsters"- Kaibutsu ehon- 怪物画本 illustrating various scenes of characters and monsters, ghosts and other yokai. Ca. 1881. The artist was inspired by the work of Toriyama Sekien, an eighteenth-century ukiyo-e scholar and artist known for his attempt to catalog the many species of yōkai in Japan . 明治时代，日本鍋田玉英妖怪画本浮世绘一组十三件