I’ve been looking for a big book of Japanese monsters for a while- the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has a Zazzle store with some of the woodblock images I’ve been looking for! A lead at last!
Hokusai, Japanese, 1760 – 1849 The Dish Mansion (Sara yashiki), from the series One Hundred Ghost Stories (Hyaku monogatari), 1830 Color woodcut Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Carlotta Mabury Collection
It looks like the Library of Congress has 5 original panels:
Hokusai Hyaku Monogatari (Ghost Tales)
Katsushika Hokusai
no Uchi Gomai
In kanji his name is “葛飾北斎” – the series of prints is “百物語” which you’ll notice is just “one hundred stories.” “Ghost” or “Monster” is obake which is written like “ã?ŠåŒ–ã?‘”.
Another artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) (月岡 芳年)
- Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) (月岡 芳年)
- Subject: Shomu and the elephant.
- Series: Wakan hyaku monogatari (One hundred ghost stories of China and Japan). (芳年　和漢百物語)
- Signature: Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga.
- Date: 9/1865.
- Publisher: Daikin.
- Reference: Roger Keyes. Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: 1839-1892. Ann Arbor, 1983, series 134, no.23.
- wakan (和漢) just means “japanese”
- Artelino article
- “Kingio Hideaki” may be another ghost image from this artist
- Shoki – from Thirty-six Ghosts and Demons, 1890
- Demon Attacking Watanabe no Tsuna, 1888
- Japan Prints lists:
- Fujiwara no Hidesato Shooting Centipede at Dragon Kings Palace
- Takeda Katsuchiyo Killing an Old Badger in the Moonlight
- Nitta Tadatsume Seeing an Apparition in a Cave
- Sadanobu Threatening a Demon in the Palace at Night
- Ghost of Wicked Genta Yoshihira Attacking Naamba Jiro – Waterfall
- selling originals at Ukiyoe Gallery
- “New Forms of Japanese Ghosts” (新形三å??å…怪撰)
- Is this an exhibit of some kind?
- Kinokuniya has a book called yoshitoshi youkaihyakukei – (芳年妖怪百系) – “yoshitoshi’s series of 100 ghosts.” Its ISBN is 4336042020 and it costs about Â¥4000