Many Japanese speakers will associate 百鬼 with 百鬼夜行 (hyakki yakō — the night parade of one hundred demons), a deep-rooted image in Japanese folklore: a procession of supernatural creatures moving through the night streets. The gut reaction is dark and visually rich, but not alarming — this is the darkness of mythology and horror aesthetics, not personal threat. It reads as someone drawn to the stranger side of Japanese tradition. ...