Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji
Katsushika Hokusai; Publisher: Tsuruya KiemonLinkedCulture matchlcp-679e80b6224e
- Date
- c. 1831–32
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 65734
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Kohada Koheiji is an actor, believed to have lived in Edo later Edo Period. It's believed that his wife had an affair, conspired and killed him with her boyfriend, Koheiji became a ghost and haunted them, killed the wife, her lover went crazy and killed himself. This story later was written as a novel by Santō Kyōden in 1807, also made to be several Kabuki plays including the one by Tsuriya Nanboku in 1808, the other by Suzuki Senzaburō in 1925. Japan, Asia
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- Credit line
- Gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr.
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