Artworks

Tennōji in Yanaka, Tokyo (Kiyochika Ponchi)

Artwork · Kobayashi Kiyochika · c. 1881 · Japanese woodblock print

From a series of satirical prints by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915), named after the English magazine Punch: in the graveyard of Tennōji a skeletal policeman points his finger at two skeletons, one of whom has taken off all but her underskirt to fan herself — a satire on the government’s attempt to control nudity to please Westerners. 1 Mason 2005, p. 383, fig. 456. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.