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A work made of woodblock printed book, sumizuri-e.

A New Selection of Big Fans (Shinsen O-Uchiwa)

Edo period (1615–1868), n.d.

Okumura Masanobu 奥村 政信 Japanese, 1686-1764

Japan

This is a collection of ghost stories presented in eight volumes that are bound as one. The page seen here shows a female demon attacking a samurai, while a traveling priest hides behind a pine tree.

Woodblock printed book, sumizuri-e

Arts of Asia