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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
Gamō Sadahide’s Retainer, Toki Motosada, Hurling a Demon King to the Ground at Mount Inohana in Kai Provincefront

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Gamō Sadahide’s Retainer, Toki Motosada, Hurling a Demon King to the Ground at Mount Inohana in Kai Province

  • Description

    It is not known where Yoshitoshi found the story for this print, but Yoshitoshi’s series ‘One Hundred Ghost Stories of China and Japan’ contains a similar design with a short explanation, although the names used are slightly different. In this explanation, a certain Gamō Ujiue sets up camp near Mount Inohana in Kai Province. One of his officers, Toki Daishiro, hears of strange happenings at an old temple in the neighbourhood. Investigating the temple late at night, he sees many strange phantoms, including a ferocious-looking temple guardian. Toki grapples with this figure and throws it to the ground, whereupon all the apparitions vanish.

  • Details

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    Series
    New Forms of Thirty-six Ghosts
    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Date
    probably 1890
    Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
    Artist/maker
    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) (designer)
    Associated people
    probably Sasaki Toyokichi (active 1889 - 1892) (publisher)
    Material and technique
    woodblock
    Dimensions
    mount 55.5 x 40.3 cm (height x width)
    print 39 x 23 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.
    EA1971.190

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