Gamo Sadahide's Servant, Toki Motosada, Hurling a Demon King to the Ground at Mount Inahana, from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (Shinkei sanjuroku kaisen)"

Art Institute of Chicago

Gamo Sadahide's Servant, Toki Motosada, Hurling a Demon King to the Ground at Mount Inahana, from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (Shinkei sanjuroku kaisen)"

Tsukioka YoshitoshiLinkedCulture matchlcp-0caca39c7835

Date
1890
Medium
Color woodblock print
Culture
Japan
Department
Arts of Asia
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
196865

A samurai in a blue robe and full armor battles a large demon with red skin whom he has managed to pin to the ground, while a smiling Buddha statue looks on with approval. This print apparently illustrates an obscure legend, according to which the warrior had previously learned of strange happenings at a temple in Kai Province, where he had set up camp for the night. When he went to investigate, he encountered a group of spirits and goblins, the largest of which was in the form of a temple guardian, or niō. Once the large creature was defeated, the other apparitions, including dancing skeletons and moths, disappeared.

View at Art Institute of Chicago ↗

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.38HI7R6T1U1Qyp5P.-xYGZfHHt6JIX7HykW7GtJ6yhwGhqszCg3pJNgf4XThbBhOyoQVtFq86hU9Khk4gxbM4olW9LGo2oFTkWXXrfXzlHxAcwgpTe2KNsriI-DwUmzUSK83-97zAd_K04YsZC5lR8hCNqMpvGaa3xUSA5TunZrvY0aRS59vtnLBBx7gMkD4o9nQ98_jgOcbKFzHZo9a1vKTlYXGOM-5-REkPjfcurzgTzCHcFYTVGjkO2dyCOPefva3vWK3OdVXRLnT9sFdf5b2VmUk1_9NEgMo7TlPh9xI4See at Art Institute of Chicago QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.fXdHSQxM16QSVHXS.qrOtQzuINta2oL6receUtmH9S1J99-EWHUosfJiR0cjuzkzEY-mFzPOdW4TyOfPuHaHvUlJ5nbTgjePTQMQU8ZbTlDAJoUGxZALT4MGKWFy1K43DGTTiWURtFY9uoPUdwW-m-dsbDn2cw90cFjc6WB2_FQ0-mOIyQekNQvWOtqx1daLyxSGtkFW8gwqVNMbp0vFxTa8BeSE7_vjwYbgySfEiw7DMEzmWWcXj84bgsaOhug9e4V2EuqWx5iEHfdCufxuENpLY03CAjXWWySRMQj_UMw
Open this page
See at Art Institute of Chicago

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line
Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.
Provenance
Bruce Goff (1904–1982), Tyler, TX; by descent to his estate; with Shin'enKan, Inc., Corona del Mar, CA, by 1990; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

Linked open data

Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.

Object type
AAT300041273

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.