Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Scene from a Ghost Story: The Okazaki Cat Demon

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Artist Utagawa KuniyoshiJapanese, 1798–1861

CultureJapanese

Titles

Scene from a Ghost Story: The Okazaki Cat Demon

Date1847–1848

Printed inJapan

MediumWoodblock printed triptych; ink and color on paper

DimensionsPlate or block (each): 14 × 9 3/4 in. (35.6 × 24.8 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 9 3/4 in. (35.6 × 24.8 cm)
Overall (assembled): 14 × 29 1/4 in. (35.6 × 74.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Japan Business Association of Houston, Stephen Hamilton, and the Elizabeth S. and Marjorie G. Horning Asian Art Accessions Endowment Fund

Object number2012.71.A-.C

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Asian Art

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ProvenanceProvenance is from the antiquarian market in Japan

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Right panel: recto: signed in ink, in image, lower right corner: (Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga)
Middle panel: recto: signed in ink, in image, lower left corner: (Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga)
Middle panel: recto: printed in ink, in image, center left edge: [figure title?]
Left panel: recto: signed in ink, in image, lower right corner: (Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga)
Left panel: recto: printed in ink, in image, center left edge: [figure title?]

Right panel: recto: stamped in ink, in image, lower right corner: [seal, double sphere]
Right panel: recto: stamped in ink, in image, bottom right edge: [seal]
Middle panel: recto: stamped in ink, in image, lower left corner: [seal, double sphere]
Middle panel: recto: stamped in ink, in image, bottom left edge: [seal]
Left panel: recto: stamped in ink, in image, lower right corner: [seal, double sphere]
Left panel: recto: stamped in ink, in image, lower right corner: [seal]

Morra C 353

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