Unsolved:The Ghost of Oyuki
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| Artist | Maruyama Ōkyo |
| Year | 1750 |
| Type | Ink on silk |
The Ghost of Oyuki (お雪の幻 Oyuki no maboroshi) is a painting of a female yūrei, (a traditional Japanese ghost), by Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795),[1] founder of the Maruyama-Shijō school of painting.[2]
According to an inscription on the painting, Okyo had a mistress in the Tominaga Geisha house. She died young and Okyo mourned her death. One night her spirit came to him in a dream. Unable to get her image out of his head, he painted this portrait.[3] This is one of the earliest paintings of a yūrei with the basic late-Edo period ghost characteristics: disheveled hair, white kimono, limp hands, nearly transparent, lack of lower body.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Brooks, Kit (2022). "Japan Supernatural: Ghosts, Goblins and Monsters, 1700s to Now ed. by Melanie Eastburn (review)". The Journal of Japanese Studies 48 (2): 487–492. doi:10.1353/jjs.2022.0060. ISSN 1549-4721. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/44/article/861651.
- ↑ Van-Veda, Jenevieve (2020), Bloom, Clive, ed., "The Geisha Ghost" (in en), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Cham: Springer International Publishing): pp. 1075–1090, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_64, ISBN 978-3-030-33136-8, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_64, retrieved 2023-02-23
- ↑ Ishii, Tatsunori; Watanabe, Katsumi (2019). "How People Attribute Minds to Non-Living Entities". 2019 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST). pp. 213–217. doi:10.1109/KST.2019.8687324. ISBN 978-1-5386-7512-0. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8687324.
Further reading
- Iwasaka, Michiko and Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN:0-87421-179-4
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