Amikiri

right|thumb|200px|"Amikiri" (網切) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by [[Toriyama Sekien.]] is a Japanese depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.

==Concept== The illustration of the in Toriyama Sekien (1712‐1788)'s Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (published 1776) depicts a scorpion-like creature (or a cross between a serpent, bird or a lobster with pincer claws similar to that of a crab or a scorpion), but since Sekien supplies no explanatory text, it is not certain what kind of yōkai it is. It may be an off-shoot based on another similar yōkai named ("hair-cutter"), which Sekien does not include in his series, but occurs in predecessor (1707‐1772)'s emaki painting scroll Hyakkai zukan (1737), from which Sekien is known to have borrowed heavily.