Playful Demons Artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)

after 1870

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll: ink and color on silk

Dimensions

without mounting: 50 × 19 11/16 in. (127 × 50 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton R. Longhi, B.A. 1967

Accession Number

2006.210.13a-b

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Meiji era (1868–1912)

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Leighton R. Longhi, and Rosemarie Longhi, New York; gift in 2006 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Timothy Clark, Demon of Painting: The Art of Kawanabe Kyoosai (London: British Museum Press, 1993),
  • Christine Guth Kanda, Asobi: Play in the Arts of Japan, exh. cat. (Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art, 1992), pl. 20
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, human figures (visual works)

Subject

devils (spirits) ladder

Signed

"Shou Gyosai"; sealed "Jokuu" (irregular shape relief)

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