Ghost of Kohada Koheiji ☳ Hokusai ☴ Art Print celestial and the later pictures

and the later pictures

van Gogh painted it from memory at The Yellow House

windmills and houses of the city are wedged between a giant open sky and a large field of green

is surrounded by cartographic items: a globe

watched by a little girl and another man

Ghost of Kohada Koheiji ☳ Hokusai ☴ Art Print celestial and the later picturesThe Ghost of Kohada Koheiji (1832) by Katsushika Hokusai is from his ukiyo e woodblock series One Hundred Ghost Stories, although only five prints are known to exist. This print depicts a scene from the story of Kohada Koheiji, a kabuki actor who was drowned by his wife's lover but came back for revenge, killing her and driving the lover to madness then suicide. Here, the skeletal ghost of Kohada Koheiji pulls down the mosquito net and peers at the