[The plate mansion]. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Summary
Ukiyo-e print illustration showing a scene from a Japanese legend about a maid named Okiku who was bound and thrown down a well by her master after breaking a precious Korean plate; prints depicts a ghost emerging from a well.
Illus. in: Hyaku monogatari / Katsushika Hokusai, Edo : Tsuruya Kiemon, 1830.
Title from exhibit website:
Published in: The floating world of Ukiyo-e : shadows, dreams, and substance / essays by Sandy Kita ... [et al.], New York : Abrams in association with the Library of Congress, 2001, p. 158.
Exhibited: "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substances," organized by the Library of Congress, 2001.
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
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