The Demon Parade by Si Simple. DxP (Digital and Physical).

Drawn in ink on Polaroid, edited in photoshop. CC0 Remixes of Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons (Kyōsai hyakki gadan).

Original art by Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831–1889) Woodblock printed book (orihon, accordion-style); ink and color on paper.

CC0 pictures acquired from The Met.

Kyōsai was a prolific renegade artist and believed in freedom of expression. He was an early pioneer of Manga and I will always remember him for making me want to draw non-stop.

From Public Domain Review:

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/night-parade-of-one-hundred-demons/

The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (Hyakki Yagyō) is a thousand-plus-year-old Japanese folkloric tradition, in which a series of demons parades — or explodes — into the ordinary human world.

Kyōsai’s version was, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which houses the book, one of the artist’s most popular volumes, offering “a spectacular visual encyclopedia of supernatural creatures of premodern Japanese folklore”.

One can see why it was so popular. Narratively, it paves the way for the fantastic parade with two woodblocks: the first depicts a group of adults and children gathered around a coal fire to hear ghosts stories, the second a man (probably Kyōsai) setting down his calligraphy brush and extinguishing the lamp in preparation for the night in which the demons will appear.