Adults and children huddle around a brazier, or coal fire, to hear ghost stories.
Featured on PDR in the collection Kawanable Kyōsai’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (1890)
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889), aka “The Demon of Painting”, composed this book of woodblock illustrations toward the end of a life that had begun during the Edo period, when Japan was still a feudal country, and ended in the midst of the Meiji period, when the country was transforming into a modern state.
Also appearing in the collection…
Adults and children huddle around a brazier, or coal fire, to hear ghost stories.
Artist
From
Hyakki Yagyō
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Image Size
1500 x 952