Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川芳幾 - 1833-1904) (artist )
Ghost #11 ( 魂魄 十一) from the Hyaku monogatari (百もの語)
08/1890
7.4" x 10.5" Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Maruyama Mondo (圓山主水圖)
see the notes in the description
Publisher: Fukuda Kumajirō (福田熊次郎)
Date: 8/1890
Meiji 23, 8th Month (明治二十三年八月)
Ota Memorial Museum - Scary Ukiyoe Exhibition
Waseda University - several prints from this series
Waseda University
Lyon Collection - Yoshitoshi print of a ghost painted by Maruyama Ōkyo coming out of the painting frightening the artist Lafcadio Hearn wrote:
Tradition says that Okyo Maruyama was the first Japanese artist who drew a ghost. The Shogun, having invited him to his palace, said: 'Make a picture of a ghost for me.' Okyo promised to do so; but he was puzzled how to execute the order satisfactorily. A few days later, hearing that one of his aunts was very ill, he visited her. She was so emaciated that she looked like one already long dead. As he watched by her bedside, a ghastly inspiration came to him: he drew the fleshless face and long dishevelled hair, and created from that hasty sketch a ghost that surpassed all the Shogun's expectations. Afterwards Okyo became very famous as a painter of ghosts.****
There are several prints from this series at the collection of Waseda University. Click on the link above to see them. There appear to be at least 17 prints in this series according to the information at Waseda University.
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Chuban ghost of a woman dressed as a corpse in a white shroud with a bag (zudabukuro - 頭陀袋) hanging from her neck. This print design is after a painting by Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-95) whose pseudonymous signature 円山主水 (Maruyama Mondo) is at the lower left. Sprinkled with mica in the upper third.
“Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons and Yôkai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces” (2016), page 38.
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Here is a list of the prints in this series as we have been able to find and identify them. Please be patient as we fill in the gaps.
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3) Sara-yashiki (皿屋敷), the Mansion of Plates - after an early Hokusai print
4) Laughing Demoness (笑はんにや 四) - a takeoff on another Hokusai print from ca. 1831
5) Onryō (おんりょう)* - a revengeful ghost - based on a ca. 1831 print by Hokusai referred
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7) Sassa Nurimasa (佐々成政 七) - this fellow lived from 1536-88
8) Yotsuya, #8 (四ツ谷 八) - based on Hokusai's 1831 print of the Oiwa ghost lantern from the Yotusya Kaidan (四谷怪談)
9) Botan Dōrō (牡丹灯籠 九), the Peony lantern - a Japanese ghost story
10) The ghost of Kohada Koheiji (小幡小平治 十) - based on the original print by Hokusai from 1831
11) Ghost (魂魄 十一)
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16) Ameonna, Rain Woman (雨女 十六) - an unlucky woman who is rained on everywhere she goes
17) Yuki Jorō, Snow Maiden (雪女郎)
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図 - ghosts demons monsters and spirits) (genre)
Fukuda Kumajirō (福田熊次郎) (publisher)