Аннотация:s The 53 Seasons of Tōkaidō.Through the rhetorical resource of the mitate, Mizuki set in motion along the road that connected Edo to Kyoto the characters that enshrined his career, GeGeGe no Kitarō and his team.The ukiyo-e images are also the stage for the appearance of more than two hundred yōkai, part of the compilation made by mangaka during a lifetime of rescue work of these beings from pre-modern Japan's popular culture and their insertion in contemporary media.The increasing spread of themes related to the Japanese supernatural and fantastic universe in the West, through a vast diversity of cultural media, is added to the intense placement of images in the current world.With the demand for our attention, study and understanding about what gets through us and forges subjectivities and discourses, this research took the 55 illustrations of The 53 Stations of Yōkaidō as an archive, to investigate them under the aegis of the thought of the German cultural historian Aby Moritz Warburg (1866-1929).The objective was to study mainly the Warburguian concepts of post-life or survival (Nachleben) and also of the pathos formulas (Pathosformeln) in the images of Mizuki's work, in an attempt to respond, as far as possible, to the challenge of deciphering them, largely imposed by the anachronism present in them.The dismantling of the elements of the selected Stations and the subsequent survey of their historical-cultural contents, together with the identification of conflicting power games -which cause the repression to break out at the fracture points of these images -revealed that amid humor and playfulness lie, artistically reappropriated, ghostly survivals from immemorial times, updated in the history of 20th century Japan.
