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!
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Taira no Kiyomori Haunted by Spectres
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Description
This print depicts the same scene as the print to the right [EAX.4855], where the twelfth-century warrior Taira no Kiyomori is haunted by the ghosts of the enemies he has ruthlessly killed during his lifetime. Here Kiyomori (depicted as the Osaka-based kabuki actor Nakamura Utaemon IV (1769-1852), who performed this role in the first month of 1845) stands on the veranda of his palace looking out over his snow-covered garden. In his vision the trees, hillocks and even the lanterns have been transformed into skulls and skeletons.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Hyōgo prefecture › Kobe › Fukuhara Palace (subject)
- Date
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1843 - 1845
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
- Associated people
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Ibaya Kyūbei (c. 1820 - 1860) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
- 34.7 x 25.2 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4846.a
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Ukiyo-e prints from the Ashmolean
(from 29th Sep 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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