The Ghost of Oyuki explained
| The Ghost of Oyuki |
| Artist: | Maruyama Ōkyo |
| Year: | 1750 |
| Type: | Ink on silk |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
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.
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.[2] 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.
Further reading
- Iwasaka, Michiko and Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994.
Notes and 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 . 10.1353/jjs.2022.0060 . 251428917 . 1549-4721.
- Book: Ishii . Tatsunori . Watanabe . Katsumi . 2019 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST) . How People Attribute Minds to Non-Living Entities . 2019 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8687324 . 213–217 . 10.1109/KST.2019.8687324. 978-1-5386-7512-0 . 115195966 .
