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Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture; formerly acquired by the Center in honor of Fred and Joan Baekelandexpand_more 2013.29.159
This comical juxtaposition of the beauty and the beast pairs two popular characters from folk paintings sold as souvenirs. The Wisteria Maiden steps on the back of a demon priest to pull a branch of wisteria, ignoring his rapturous gaze and using him as no more than a footstool.
This scroll was formerly in the collection of Josiah Conder (1789–1859), the “father of western-style architecture in Japan,” who became a pupil of Kyōsai.
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