old person with grey hair and wrinkled skin, kneeling and bending backwards, with hands on sides of face, wearing garments in green, blue, brown and dark green with yellow patterns; black box filled with demon figures at left, including a three-eyed figure with a wide mouth and two tentacles on either side of its nose, wearing a green and grey garment, a figure with an exaggerated face, with wide nose and mouth, holding its eyes and mouth open with its hands, and two blue demon figures

The Greedy Old Woman, 1865, 9th lunar month

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Details
Title
The Greedy Old Woman
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.60
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 134.19; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 24 no. 27, p. 288.
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old person with grey hair and wrinkled skin, kneeling and bending backwards, with hands on sides of face, wearing garments in green, blue, brown and dark green with yellow patterns; black box filled with demon figures at left, including a three-eyed figure with a wide mouth and two tentacles on either side of its nose, wearing a green and grey garment, a figure with an exaggerated face, with wide nose and mouth, holding its eyes and mouth open with its hands, and two blue demon figures