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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
The Taira Ghosts Attacking Yoshitsune’s Shipfront

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The Taira Ghosts Attacking Yoshitsune’s Ship

  • Description

    During the twelfth century, the Minamoto and Taira warrior clans waged decades of battles that were depicted in countless stories and pictures. In the final sea battle between the two clans at Dannoura in 1185, the brilliant commander Minamoto no Yoshitsune destroyed the Taira fleet and the leading members of the Taira family were slain or drowned. Soon afterwards Yoshitsune was caught in a terrible storm and the ghosts of the dead Taira warriors rose from the depths of the sea to sink the ship.

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    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Asia › Japan (Daimotsu Bay) (subject)
    Date
    1843 - 1845
    Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
    Artist/maker
    Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
    Associated people
    Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) (subject)
    Material and technique
    woodblock
    Dimensions
    mount 55.5 x 27.5 cm (height x width)
    sheet 32.3 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 › triptych 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.
    EA1971.161.b

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