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

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

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Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Ukiyo-e prints from the Ashmolean
The ghost of Oiwa emerges from a lantern to frighten Tamiya Iemonfront

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The ghost of Oiwa emerges from a lantern to frighten Tamiya Iemon

  • Description

    This print depicts an episode from a famous Japanese ghost story, the Tale of Oiwa. Oiwa is a young woman who is poisoned by her husband. After an agonizing death, her spirit returns to haunt him. Here he recoils in horror as Oiwa’s deformed face emerges from a lantern. This print series shows various legendary and historical subjects associated with verses from a famous poetic anthology. The poem transcribed here is a love poem by the tenth-century courtier Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu.

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    Series
    Take-offs Based on the Ogura Version of the ‘One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets’
    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Date
    published 1845 - 1848
    Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
    Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (AD 921 - 991) (author)
    Yokogawa Takejirō (active c. 1852) (block cutter)
    Associated people
    Ibaya Senzaburō (active c. 1820s - c. 1870s) (publisher)
    Kinugasa Fusajirō (active c. 1843 - 1853) (censor)
    Material and technique
    woodblock
    Dimensions
    mount 55.5 x 40.3 cm (height x width)
    print 34 x 22.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    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.
    EA1971.122

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