Yokai Immersive Experience Exhibition Kagoshima

The exhibition is billed as the world's first immersive, hands-on digital art museum centred on Japanese yokai art. It draws on works by Edo- and Meiji-period painters, focusing on themes such as the "night parade of one hundred demons" (hyakki yagyo) picture scrolls, the "one hundred tales" (hyakumonogatari), and figures including oni, tengu, kappa, and tsukumogami. These works are brought to life through cutting-edge imaging technology and three-dimensional modelling.

The exhibition is presented with the cooperation of two institutions: the Iwase Bunko Library in Nishio, Japan's first museum of antiquarian books, and the Yokai Art Museum on Shodoshima. Alongside explanations of yokai culture, yokai painting, and caricature, the show features striking staging in which yokai appear in three-dimensional form, offering visitors a chance to enjoy, learn about, and experience the world of yokai.