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Translation of the Japanese-language Ehon Hyaku Monogatari page, to be used to supplement the existing English-language stub.

Outline
The author is Tōsanjin (桃山人) (however, in the preface the author's name is written Tōka Sanjin [桃花山人]. According to the Kokusho Sōmokuroku (Iwanami Shoten) this is considered to be a gesaku author from the latter half of the Edo period, Tōkaen Michimaro (桃花園三千麿).

The illustrator is Takehara Shunsensai. Woodblock-printed books on yokai in the Edo period used only a main block to print black lines, or diluted ink printed repeatedly with a main block. One of the features of this book, besides using many printings of diluted ink, is that it used multicolored printing, with multiple color blocks in green, blue, and red ink.

It can be said that this is a kind of hundred-tale kaidan (ghost story) book popular in the Edo period, as "100 Tales" is part of the tile, but rather than being tales with story titles, yōkai names are printed on illustrations of yōkai, so it could be said that this work is a fusion of kaidan book and picture book.

It is also known by the title Tōsanjin Yawa (桃山人夜話, literally "Tōsanjin's Night Tales") because the title on the first page of each volume is "Tōsanjin Yawa, Volume [#]." Scholar of Japanese manners and customs Ema Tsutomu (Nihon Yōkai Henka-shi, 1923) and folklorist Fujisawa Morihiko (Hentai Densetsu-shi, 1926), as well as magazines at that time, introduced this book by the name Tōsanjin Yawa, and so this title became famous. On the other hand, Mizuki Shigeru, in his 1979 Yōkai 100 Monogatari describes it in his references as "Ehon Hyaku Monogatari (Author: Tōsanjin, Year of publication: Unknown)."

It has also been recognized that a book with completely the same contents, titled Ehon Kaidan Zoroe, was published in 2005 by Yumoto Kōichi. The preface's title is changed, and the title of each volume is Ehon Kaidan Zoroe Volume [#] rather than Tōsanjin Yawa Volume [#]. Upon examination, it appears to be an earlier publication than Ehon Hyaku Monogatari, with the relationship that the inscriptions of "Tōsanjin" and "Tōka Sanjin" are mixed, and it also is generally suggested that the first edition of Ehon Hyaku Monogatari may have been published before 1841.

Collected Works
The illustrations have been numbered by volume and appearance order. For example, the second image of the fourth volume would be 4-2.

The translation for the text in each image is given below the corresponding illustration number and yōkai name.

First Volume

5-6 (41st 柳婆) **Yanagi-baba** (柳ばば) “In old willow tree a sprite/spirit dwells, a strange event since a long time ago in great numbers occurs.”

5-7 (42nd 桂男) Katsura-otoko (桂おとこ) “If look at the moon for too long, the katsura-otoko comes beckoning and shortens life span, from long ago it is said.”

5-8 (43rd 夜の楽屋) Yoru no Gakuya (夜楽屋) Bunraku puppet play Kanadehon Chuushingura in is used Kou no Morano and **Enya Takasada** dolls in the night are said to fight-is said story.

After-Showa-era illustrated yokai books (yokai zukan) and encyclopedias, etc. in “doll ghosts” name is introduced.

5-9 (44th 舞首) **Maikubi** (舞くび) “Three gamblers violently/intensely contested/competed and were imprisoned by the imperial court, all got the death penalty, and their corpses drifted in the sea-when, their necks/heads gathered in one place, from their mouths breathed flames-while continued to quarrel, this continues day and night without end.”