Edo Monsters Encyclopedia Part II (Ukiyoe Ota Museum of Art)

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This summer, has been held in the Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art, exhibition series of ukiyo-e specter of Edo.

In the first part, it was Ukiyo-e spooky demon, Tengu, such as cat monster.

Part 1 Edo Great Yokai Encyclopedia (Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art) 

Part 2, edited by specter. Sometimes held that the period during the month of August, the contents should be called the highlight of this exhibition series, so to speak.

It does not begin Speaking of ghost image, you do not raise the first Hyakumonogatari of Hokusai again.

Movies sense Oiwa who was likened to face the lantern, and Sarayashiki a long neck extending from the tub, as a painter of Hokusai is fullest.

Among them, the work of Shiunen, is, at first glance, snake and offerings, Izu, and memorial tablets are depicted specter can be drawn.

Tenacity of the dead, trying to Haraso grudges or regret, left in this world to become a snake.

In a sense, specter than depicted, scary much better here.

However, it is said that it was scheduled this series does not sell well at the time, to make 100 sheets Initially, only five had not been made​​.

Ghosts are taken up as a repertoire of Kabuki, Ukiyo-e is the specter appear is, from getting in the 1800s.

Edo was in peaceful for long time, stimulation, or became wanted, and I wonder if in anticipation, the big changes of the times to visit soon.

In any case, it is inspired from the stage of Kabuki, imagination of ukiyo-e they were exploding.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi of the Meiji era, drew a number of social events, but one of them.

Culprit that has on the run and committed a murder, has been surrendered to the police. According to the criminal, people who were killed, appears to become a ghost day and night, and that's torment relentlessly. That it has turned himself to no longer endure it.

Different from the ukiyo-e us of the Edo period, with a touch that was dry, which is suppressed, around the perpetrator, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi depicts by arranging the ghost of some afflicting him.

All through the ages, the appearance of the ghost, had to be after the world with chagrin, I think of the people, are reflected in the direct as it is.