Amikiri
Sign in to saveright|thumb|200px|"Amikiri" (網切) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien.]] is a Japanese depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.
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Vinony's link graph records 245 inbound references to Amikiri, and connects out to kitsune, Yamabiko and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under the topic Yōkai.
Vinony links it to 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- yōkai
- Image
- SekienAmikiri.jpg
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- name in kana
- あみきり
- present in work
- Gazu Hyakki Yagyō
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Encyclopedic overview
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right|thumb|200px|"Amikiri" (網切) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien.]] is a Japanese depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.
==Concept== The illustration of the in Toriyama Sekien (1712‐1788)'s Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (published 1776) depicts a scorpion-like creature (or a cross between a serpent, bird or a lobster with pincer claws similar to that of a crab or a scorpion), but since Sekien supplies no explanatory text, it is not certain what kind of yōkai it is. It may be an off-shoot based on another similar yōkai named ("hair-cutter"), which Sekien does not include in his series, but occurs in predecessor (1707‐1772)'s emaki painting scroll Hyakkai zukan (1737), from which Sekien is known to have borrowed heavily.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amikiri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.