Art Institute of Chicago
A New Selection of Big Fans (Shinsen O-Uchiwa)
Okumura Masanobu 奥村 政信
- Date
- Edo period (1615–1868), n.d.
- Medium
- Woodblock printed book, sumizuri-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This is a collection of ghost stories presented in eight volumes that are bound as one. The page seen here shows a female demon attacking a samurai, while a traveling priest hides behind a pine tree.
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- Object type
- AAT300028051
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