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Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Ukiyo-e prints from the Ashmolean

(from 29th Sep 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)

Prepare for giant spiders, dancing skeletons, winged goblins, and hordes of ghostly warriors!

Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Ukiyo-e prints from the Ashmolean
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The woman Shizunome Ohyaku

  • Description

    This print series is based on the Chinese classical novel, The Tales of the Water Margin (Suikoden in Japanese). The novel recounts the exploits of a gang of Chinese outlaws in the twelfth century and the subject was enormously popular in Japan in the mid-1800s. Instead of depicting the Chinese characters from the original novel, Yoshitoshi chose to use his own set of heroes from Japanese history and legend for this series. He was fascinated by the supernatural and incorporated several spirits and monsters. The woman who is releasing ghosts from a bottle is the villainess Ohyaku.

  • Details

    Series
    Beauty and valour in the novel Suikoden
    Associated place
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of creation)
    AsiaJapanHonshūKantōTōkyō prefecture Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Date
    1866
    Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
    Artist/maker
    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) (designer)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 55.5 x 40.2 cm (height x width)
    print 25 x 18.4 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.
    Accession no.
    EA1971.214

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    • currently in research collection

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