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Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons (Kyōsai hyakki gadan) 暁斎百鬼画談

1890 (first edition published posthumously in 1889)
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons (Kyōsai hyakki gadan) 暁斎百鬼画談
  • Artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (Japanese, 1831–1889)
  • Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
  • Date: 1890 (first edition published posthumously in 1889)
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Woodblock printed book (orihon, accordion-style); ink and color on paper
  • Dimensions: 7 13/16 × 4 3/4 in. (19.8 × 12 cm)
  • Classification: Illustrated Books
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013
  • Object Number: 2013.767
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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