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Forger
Enji Takamizawa
(Japanese, 1870 – 1927)
After
Katsushika Hokusai
(Japanese, 1760 - 1849)
Datec. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
MediumReproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
DimensionsComposition: 13 × 9 in. (33 × 22.9 cm)
Frame: 22 3/8 × 16 3/8 in. (56.8 × 41.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971
Object numberS2025.2.3
Not on view
DescriptionDepicts Oiwa, the wife of samurai Tamiya Iemon. When a young woman named Oume falls in love with Iemon, her friends give Oiwa a gift of poisonous face cream to disfigure her. Tamiya Iemon then leaves Oiwa, and in her despair, she trips onto a sword while cursing Iemon's name. Oiwa haunts Iemon and takes on the shape of a paper lantern.
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Additional Details
Alternate Titles
unknown [from the Nightmare Series]
The Ghost of Oiwa
The Ghost of Oiwa
Markings
Verso, frame backing (white paper Emerson Gallery Loan Collection label with typed text): "Artist: Unknown, Japanese / Title: From the Nightmare Series / Medium: Reproduction of colored woodcut / Credit Line: Gift of William Roehrick '34 / Accession No.: [no info]"
Inscribed
Recto, bottom center, on mount (pencil): "Apparition d'Hoksai"
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.4
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.1
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.5
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.2
Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1802-1803
Medium: Nishiki-e color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1996.15.38
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.121
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.110
Toyokuni III
Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
Object number: 1994.92
Matene Cain
Date: 1994
Medium: Four-separation woodcut
Object number: 2025.9.3
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.107
André Masson
Date: 1943
Medium: Bound volume with 34 reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings
Object number: 1992.46.1
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: date unknown
Medium: Sumi-e and watercolor
Object number: 2024.1.2