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Vol. II · Polytheism · death
Gaki
Japanese Buddhist hungry ghosts
emaciated tormented beings with enormous stomachs and tiny mouths, unable to eat as food bursts into flame before them
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.