A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Yoshitoshi's Ghosts (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Yoshitoshi no Bakemono)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
Description
From the Hundred Shades of Ink series, this print homages Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), the last great master of ukiyo-e, known for his intensely psychological and often violent ghost and supernatural imagery. Yoshitoshi's ghosts were not merely decorative but genuinely disturbing — expressions of Meiji-era anxiety about the rapid transformation of Japanese society. Binnie's aizuri-e version translates the supernatural dread of a Yoshitoshi ghost into cool blue ink, the monochrome intensifying the eerie atmosphere.
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A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Yoshitoshi's Ghosts (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Yoshitoshi no Bakemono) was created by Paul Binnie.
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Yoshitoshi's Ghosts (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Yoshitoshi no Bakemono) depicts figures, mythology, and night scenes, set at Tokyo.