Female ghost carrying a severed males head.

Created by Kawanabe Kyōsai depicting a female ghost carrying a male's severed head. The piece can be seen at the British museum.

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Image of a female ghost.

This is 'Ghost', created by Kawanabe Kyōsai around 1868 - 70. It is ink in light colour and gold on silk.

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« Jigoku dayu » (Hell Courtesan), 1874

by Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese master, 1831-1889)
color woodcut, 35x24 cm

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Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow on a Branch, 1880s

Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow on a Branch, 1880s

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Giant Cat
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Interesting Footnote: A two-fold screen by Kawanabe Kyosai sold in 2000 for a record-breaking £400,000 British Pounds at Christies, London.

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cat with mouse
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Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889)
Tales of Aesop.

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#KawanabeKyosai (b.1831) was a drinker & a genius, a painter and printmaker of the weird, the comic, and the obscure. He belonged to the generation of #ukiyo-e artists in transformation from the #Edo to the #Meiji period (Middle Ages to a Modern Industrialized Society). Frolicking Skeletons 1870

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Hell Courtesan
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"Nachi Falls". ca.1863,
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#KawanabeKyosai (b.1831) was a drinker & a genius, a painter and printmaker of the weird, the comic, and the obscure. He belonged to the generation of #ukiyo-e artists in transformation from the #Edo to the #Meiji period (Middle Ages to a Modern Industrialized Society). Frolicking Skeletons 1870.

A phantasmagoric heaven-bound railcar being greeted by divine emissaries

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"A Steam Locomotive Journey to Heaven", ca.1872
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There is a very sad story about this painting. A man whose daughter died at a young age commissioned Kyosai to create a painting as a memorial to his daughter.

#KawanabeKyosai (1831-1889), drawings for Nishiki-e woodblock print showing Warriors Oishi Sezaemon Nobukiyo and Terasaka Kichiemon Nobuyuki from the series Kenroku Yamato Kagami Genroku Yamato Nishiki / Kawanabe Kyosai, 1886. The finished piece is number 4.
Harvard Art Museum’s collections

Cat with mouse upside hanging upside down from a paw.

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Cat and Mouse
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A giant cat has just swiped a pixie size man for amusement.

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Giant Cat
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#KawanabeKyosai (1831-1889) "Nachi Falls". ca.1863, #woodblock print #japanese #ukiyo-e #MuseumofFineArts, Boston