An enjoyable tracing of threads from art of the Edo period of isolation (1600-1868) to the contemporary. The through-lines were convincing and interesting, particularly the way certain types of ghosts, goblins and demons recur over time and across media, and the continuities of style across the same (eg the idea that modern animated Japanese movies are the successor to traditional scroll paintings).
Miwa Yanagi - "Rapunzel" (2004), the second time I've encountered this creepy fairytale series
Tabaimo - "The Obscuring Moon" still (2016) - I recognised her style from a distance, this one taking imagery from an 1857 Utagawa Hiroshige painting
There were a few large and splashy Takashi Murakami pieces; this was the funniest (actually it's better paired with its companion red oni demon guardian) - "Embodiment of 'Um'" (2014)
Not pictured but enjoyed: many ukiyo-e pictures, which I think (?) often had a real sense of humour about their grotesque depictions, although maybe that's just something in the conventions around exaggeration and so on; Mizuki Shigeru's insertion of yokai (types of spirit/demon/monsters) into Utagawa Hiroshige's 'Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido' series; Chiho Aoshima's whimsical, slightly troubling watercolours and pencil drawings.
