Kohada Koheiji (The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji)

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Kohada Koheiji (The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji)
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Forger (Japanese, 1870 – 1927)
After (Japanese, 1760 - 1849)
Datec. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
MediumReproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
DimensionsComposition: 9 × 13 in. (22.9 × 33 cm) Frame: 16 3/8 × 22 1/2 in. (41.6 × 57.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971
Object numberS2025.2.4
Not on view
DescriptionDepicts Kohada Koheiji, who was murdered by his cheating wife and her lover. Koheiji returns to haunt his killers as a skeleton. He folds down mosquito netting from the top of the bed to look at them.

Additional Details

Alternate Titles unknown [from the Nightmare Series]
The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji
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"
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.3
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.5
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.2
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.1
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Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1802-1803
Medium: Nishiki-e color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1996.15.38
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Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: date unknown
Medium: Terracotta
Object number: INV.542
Photograph by John Bentham.
Toyokuni III
Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
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Date: 1943
Medium: Bound volume with 34 reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings
Object number: 1992.46.1
Photo by John Bentham.
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: date unknown
Medium: Sumi-e and watercolor
Object number: 2024.1.2
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