Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
The demon Ibaraki flees through the clouds in the guise of an old woman, clutching her trickily regained arm, which had previously been cut off by Watanabe no Tsuna at Kyoto’s Rashômon Gate.
Title: Rôba kiwan o mochisaru zu (The Old Woman Retrieves Her Arm)
Series: Shinkei sanjûrokkaisen (New Forms of Thirty-Six Strange Things
Signature: Yoshitoshi
Seal: Yoshitoshi
Engraver: Negishi Chokuzan (Chokusan)
Publisher: Sasaki Toyokichi, Tokyo
Date: Meiji 22 (1889)
Size: Vertical Ôban, 36.9 x 25 cm (overall)
Excellent impression and colours, with relief printing. Unbacked, generally wide margins. In bottom margin left a missing part expertly replaced and restored, dito a small paper loss in left margin. Minimally dusty and soiled in right margin. Overall very good condition.
A famous dramatic image, certainly one of the best in this eminent ghost series by the artist. Illustrated on the front cover of The Age of Yoshitoshi. Catalogue of the Collection of Japanese Prints, Part V, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1990, and p. 40, fig. no. 47.
Van den Ing/Schaap, Beauty & Violence, p. 88, no. 65.4; John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales, Amsterdam 2005, p. 94 f, no. 6; cf. also British Museum 1946,0209,0.105; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1983-393; NDL DOI 10.11501/1306502; Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1985.4.
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