Artworks

Kiyohime Turning into a Serpent (One Hundred Ghost Stories from China and Japan)

Artwork · Yoshitoshi · 1865 · Japanese woodblock print · Los Angeles County Museum of Art

By Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), pupil of Kuniyoshi and the print artist who best answered the demands of the new age: Kiyohime, spurned by a monk, crosses a river after him and turns into a giant snake that will coil around the bell of Dōjōji in which he hides — long black hair, rough waves and the scaly pattern of her robe. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 382–383, fig. 455. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.