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The Old Woman Taking Back her Arm
The Old Woman Taking Back her Arm

The Old Woman Taking Back her Arm

Series TitleNew Forms of 36 Ghosts (Shinkei sanjurokkaisen)
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839 - 1892)
Date1889
MediumColor woodblock print; vertical oban
DimensionsImage: 13 3/16 × 8 7/8 inches (33.5 × 22.54 cm)
Sheet: 14 9/16 × 9 7/8 inches (36.99 × 25.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Duboc
Object numberF89-7/12
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Ukiyoe (“pictures of the floating world”) woodblock prints were popular during the Edo period (1615–1868), especially the 1700s. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was one of the last ukiyoe artists popular with collectors in the late 1800s.

Folk stories about spirits, or yōkai, are pervasive throughout Japan. Yoshitoshi was noted for telling scary but humorous stories of these specters. In the series New Forms of 36 Ghosts, he focused on conveying different characteristics of the supernatural creatures. In these three prints, the artist interpreted three popular ghosts.  





Provenance

With Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Duboc, Mission Hills, KS, by 1989;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1989.
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