Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts: Sadanobu Threatening a Demon in the Palace at Night (Shinkei Sanjurokkaisen: Sadanobu-ko yoru kyuchu ni kai o osoreshimu no zu)
Date: 1889
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Description:
the Heian period nobleman stands in a black kimono (embellished with shomen-zuri burnishing) unflinching as a large oni looms behind his shoulder; signed at lower right, Yoshitoshi, with rectangular seal Taiso, the series title Shinkei Sanjurokkaisen along the top margin, the print title in the two-color cartouche at the upper right, dated at lower left margin, Meiji nijuninen (Meiji 22 [1889]), followed by publisher's details of Sasaki Toyokichi (Tokyo, Kyobashi-ku, Owari-cho 2-1), and by carver's seal Chokuzan
