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Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata

Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi — Japanese Color woodblock print, 1881

Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata

by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Meiji/Taishō Prints Ukiyo-e

Date:: 1881
Medium:: Color woodblock print
Format:: Oban
Source:

Art Institute of Chicago

Typical Price

Fine impression of ghost or supernatural subject: $2,000–$10,000
Good condition supernatural print: $600–$2,500
Later impression: $200–$700

Description

"Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata" (1881) depicts a gathering of fantastical creatures or demons at a bamboo grove in Yawata, a district near Kyoto associated with the Iwashimizu Hachimangū shrine. Shrines surrounded by ancient groves were traditional sites for supernatural encounters in Japanese lore, the liminal space between the sacred enclosure and the outside world providing a natural threshold for ghostly apparitions. Yoshitoshi renders the supernatural assembly with the exuberant energy he brought to all his yokai and ghost subjects.

More Prints by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Shunkan Watching Enviously from Kikai Island as Yasuyori Returns to the Capitol after Being Unexpectedly Pardoned (Shunkan sozu Kikaigashima ni oite tamatama Yasuyori no shamen senbo kito no zu) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Shunkan Watching Enviously from Kikai Island as Yasuyori Returns to the Capitol after Being Unexpectedly Pardoned (Shunkan sozu Kikaigashima ni oite tamatama Yasuyori no shamen senbo kito no zu)

Looking as if She Wants to Go for a Walk: The Fashion of a Married Woman of the Meiji Era (Yūho ga shitasō, Meiji nenkan saikun no fūzoku), from the series Thirty-two Appearances of Fashion (Fūzoku sanjūni sō) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Looking as if She Wants to Go for a Walk: The Fashion of a Married Woman of the Meiji Era (Yūho ga shitasō, Meiji nenkan saikun no fūzoku), from the series Thirty-two Appearances of Fashion (Fūzoku sanjūni sō)

Slovenly (Shidaranasaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Slovenly (Shidaranasaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)"

1888

Color woodblock print; oban

Four PM, from the series "Twenty-Four Hours in Shinbashi and Yanagibashi" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Four PM, from the series "Twenty-Four Hours in Shinbashi and Yanagibashi"

n.d.

Color woodblock print

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Midas, Shôwa period, dated 1965? by Hideo Hagiwara

Midas, Shôwa period, dated 1965?

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Windy Deity, Shôwa period, dated 1966 by Kihei Sasajima

Windy Deity, Shôwa period, dated 1966

Woodblock print

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Frequently Asked Questions

Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata was created by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) in 1881.

Supernatural Beings at Shirazunoyabu in Yawata depicts mythology.