The AMAM is haunted! And, so is the brothel owner Takuetsu, by the ghost of Oiwa, in this scene from the Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan. Read more about this classic Japanese supernatural thriller here.
Happy Halloween!
This work is currently on display in the museum’s second floor Ripin Print Gallery.
image:
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Oiwake: The Ghost of Oiwa Appearing to Takuetsu, no. 21 from the series
The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road, 1852
Color woodblock print
Mary A. Ainsworth Bequest
AMAM 1950.606
