Deus restored -- Tokugawa Christianity -- Popular games and monster stories -- Raindrops falling in the forest -- Baba Bunkō's political and social dissent -- The decline of Tokugawa neo-Confucianism -- Baba Bunkō's literary heritage -- Kabuki actors, monks, and courtesans -- The breakdown of social order -- The Christian question -- Contemporary Edo: an album of one hundred monsters by Baba Bunkō