Tatami Hyakki Yagyo picture scroll, Edo period (1603–1868 AD), ink on paper from Japan. This scroll contains a flowing sequence of skulls arranged in a manner that evokes a procession, linking them to the concept of the Hyakki Yagyo, or “Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.”
Dark blue-ground festival kimono decorated with sea creatures, first half 20th century. Cloth: cotton; tsutsugaki (freehand resist) The John R. Van Derlip Fund and the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation.
🪡 Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs bd. 4 plates
Berlin ;bei Gottlieb August Lange, 1780-1789. The largely nocturnal spot-fin porcupine fish spends most of its time in caves or underneath coral & is poisonous 2 eat
Image description: Illustration of a spot-fin porcupine fish viewed from above, showing its rounded, spiky body covered in large, sharp spines. The fish has prominent, bulging eyes and an open mouth. Its fins are spotted with reddish markings. This nocturnal species typically inhabits caves or coral shelters and is poisonous to eat. The image is a detailed, historical print labeled “Diodon Hystrix, Linn. Der Igelfisch,” from an 18th-century natural history volume.
