Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond, from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts"
- Series:
- New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts
- Date:
- 1889
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
A young boy with a topknot, dressed in a pale robe with a red and dark-blue patterned garment slung over his shoulders, crouches barefoot atop a large dark rocky outcrop, leaning forward and peering down with one arm extended. Below him, in a swirling teal-and-white patterned pool, a huge pale carp with visible scales and whiskers surfaces beside the rock, set against a gray-to-tan gradient background with a title cartouche and vertical text panel at the upper right. This color woodblock print, "Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond" from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts," was made by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi in 1889.
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