Sarakazoe – Eidolon Station

Sarakazoe is an onibi that appeared in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Sekien Toriyama. In the Banchō Sarayashiki known from ghost stories, Okiku’s spirit became appeared as an inka (“shadow fire”) from the well, and was depicted as counting plates.

Alias Sarakazoe (皿数え)

Real Names/Alt Names “Count plate”

Characteristics Yōkai, Enlightenment and Neoclassicism, Japanese

Creators/Key Contributors Toriyama Sekien, ○

First Appearance Japanese folklore

First Publisher ○

Appearance List Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (今昔画図続百鬼, “The Illustrated One Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past”, 1779) Vol. 2

Sample Read Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki Vol. 2 “Dark” (1779) [Smithsonian]

Description Sarakazoe is an onibi that appeared in the Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Sekien Toriyama. In the Banchō Sarayashiki known from ghost stories, Okiku’s spirit became appeared as an inka (“shadow fire”) from the well, and was depicted as counting plates.

Source Sarakazoe – Wikipedia

Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki Vol. 2 'Dark' (1779) | Toriyama Sekien — Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki Vol. 2 ‘Dark’ (1779) | Toriyama Sekien