Kohada Koheiji, from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"
Katsushika Hokusai · 1831-32 · Color woodblock print; chuban
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Kohada Koheiji, from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)" is a public-domain illustration by Katsushika Hokusai, dated 1831-32. Color woodblock print; chuban. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Kohada Koheiji, from the series "One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)"” (1831-32) is a design by Hokusai, usually a woodblock print. Museums often hold different impressions of the same image, especially from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
About the artist
Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. The series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, including Under the Wave off Kanagawa, made his landscape prints famous well beyond Japan.
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