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Many pupils assisted him during the complicated preparation. Circa twelve blocks were carved per design and separately used for each colour or special effect. The prints were published from until Three designs appeared posthumously. First editions sold out immediately, because Yoshitoshi had become a famous artist at the end of his life. The woodblocks are difficult to understand for Westerners.

Therefore, I wrote direct descriptions in simple wordings. I hope that you will appreciate what you see. More information about the ghost stories can be found in a recent book by John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales, Amsterdam The prints are listed in the order used by Segi and Keyes. When a thumbnail is clicked, a new page will be opened. The title, a large picture and a description unfold.

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A demon makes a nightly charge on a nobleman in the imperial palace. The haunted lord reacts fearlessly and the demon flees. The beautiful maiden watches herons. Sometimes, a heron changes into a maiden and vice versa in Japanese stories. A saddle-horse asks a strategic question to a future military leader. The boy becomes annoyed, strikes at the saddle and kills the transformed badger. An arm has been cut off a demon. She escapes as an old woman and holds her severed limb. The samurai carries a girl across the stream. He notices the horns of a demon in her reflection, draws his sword and strikes for a kill, before she can use her dagger.

Smoke circles towards the wooden door at the back and vaguely shapes into the ghost of her lover. An evil man approaches a tree. The spirit of the cherry tree appears as a courtesan. He tells her his plan to cut down the tree. Before he can raise his axe, the spirit changes into a branch and hits him. A boy observes the giant carp. The monster has eaten his mother. Soon they wrestle in the pool. He will use the hidden knife and revenge the evil. New forms of thirty-six ghosts by Taiso Yoshitoshi Ghosts stories were popular in Japan. A killed warrior changed into an angry thunder god.


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He has thrown a thunderbolt from a torrent of clouds. It will kill the executor. The girl has seen her love at the other side of the river. She changes into a serpent and will cross the stream. Six story, ghost, uncomfortable, frighten, white hair, bad weather, night 4. The room has a secret There are six story in this book. I was afraid when I read these story. I don't want to believe the ghost, though finally I thought the ghost mig 1. I don't want to believe the ghost, though finally I thought the ghost might be.

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