Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: Shinkei 36 Kaisen
Date: 1889.
Details & Prices: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Shinkei 36 Kaisen - Artelino
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Description:
"Shinkei Sanju-roku Kai Sen" (New Thirty-six Ghosts) Ghost of Okiku in the kabuki play, "Bancho Sara-yashiki". A maid servant, Okiku, was accused of breaking one of the ten precious plates of her master. She was killed and her body was thrown into an old well. Ever since, her ghost rises from the well every night and counts from one to nine looking for the missing plate, number ten!.
