The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji

Katsushika Hokusai; Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon

Date
c. 1831–32
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art

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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