Kaidan Restaurant is a Japanese children's storybook series. The books take the form of horror anthologies, edited by Miyoko Matsutani and illustrated by Yoshikazu Takai and Kumiko KatÅ. As of 2007, there were 50 volumes published by Doshinsha. Over 8 million copies of the books have published so far.
Kaidan Restaurant
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a popular didactic Buddhist-inspired parlour game during the Edo period in Japan.
Kitagawa Utamaro, One Hundred Stories of Demons and Spirits
Hokusai, One Hundred Ghost Stories in a Haunted House (Shinpan uki-e bakemono yashiki hyaku monogatari no zu), c. 1790