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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 10287376, member: 8267"]The illustrations are from the first volume of Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō , first published in 1776. In an 1805 printing held in the Smithsonian these two illustrations do not face each other, but are on front and back of the same leaf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazu_Hyakki_Yagy%C5%8D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazu_Hyakki_Yagy%C5%8D" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazu_Hyakki_Yagyō</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/GazuHyakkiyagyo1Tori/page/n15/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/GazuHyakkiyagyo1Tori/page/n15/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/GazuHyakkiyagyo1Tori/page/n15/mode/2up</a> I imagine there have been many reprints of the book, both in Japan and elsewhere, so it will probably be very difficult to date these particular prints.[/QUOTE]