one sheet; man seen from back wearing kimonos with floral designs with red and purple backgrounds, carrying a grey pagoda with red characters; man has long hair, thick eyebrows, thick sideburns and beard, with his face in profile from PR; various gruesome demons behind man including large white face with wide mouth at top center, with a face on its chest, screaming hairy torso with snakes and blue and green demon faces
Details
Title
Chao Gai, the Pagoda-shifting Heavenly King
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.110
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 280.4; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), fig. 82, p. 284.
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one sheet; man seen from back wearing kimonos with floral designs with red and purple backgrounds, carrying a grey pagoda with red characters; man has long hair, thick eyebrows, thick sideburns and beard, with his face in profile from PR; various gruesome demons behind man including large white face with wide mouth at top center, with a face on its chest, screaming hairy torso with snakes and blue and green demon faces