MEEZ_041 THE HOUSE OF BROKEN PLATES / PROMISES _ KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI C. 1831-32 / KUMARI VAIM C. 2020-21
The Museum Without Walls/Le Musée Imaginaire
12. juuli kell 19:16
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MWW Artwork of the Day (7/12/25)
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849)
One Hundred Ghost Tales: The House of Broken Plates (c. 1831-32)
Woodblock print, 25.4 x 18.3 cm.
The Art Institute of Chicago) (Anne van Biema Collection)
The five ghosts from the published designs of a series titled "One Hundred Ghost Tales" (Hyaku monogatari) reflect an Edo custom of telling ghost tales in the dark. The ghosts are among the eeriest of Hokusai's commercially published prints, and they express Hokusai's interest in imagining the supernatural world, which began in his youth with a print of a haunted house. Here, a woman's head with a serpentine neck made up of a stack of dishes represents the ghost of Okiku, whose master threw her into a well because she had broken his favorite dish. At night the sound of smashing porcelain and a voice counting "one, two, three..." emanated from the well.
(from the AIC catalog)
For more of Hokusai's work, see these MWW galleries/albums:
* Hokusai/Hiroshige - Fuji Views & Tokaido Stages
* Non-Western Painting Gallery Kuva vähem
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