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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: 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.
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Additional Details
Alternate Titles
The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji
unknown [from the Nightmare Series]
unknown [from the Nightmare Series]
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: S2025.2.3
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
Enji Takamizawa
Date: c. 1831-1832 (printed 1920)
Medium: Reproduction Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Object number: S2025.2.1
Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1802-1803
Medium: Nishiki-e color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1996.15.38
Unknown artist, Greek (Ancient)
Date: date unknown
Medium: Terracotta
Object number: INV.542
Toyokuni III
Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
Object number: 1994.92
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
Date: c. 1945-1990
Medium: Plaster cast (hydrocal plaster?) with paint
Object number: S2023.2.14
Unknown artist
Date: mid 19th-mid 20th century
Medium: Dark brown glazed terracotta
Object number: INV.701