# May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu)"

- By: Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831-1889)
- Date: 1887
- Medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 35.7 × 73.2 cm (14 1/16 × 28 7/8 in.)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick W. Gookin
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/103334)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/04c7f8f8-a4ca-37f2-fd40-e59e291e5983/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The tiger clutches one ferocious goblin in his jaws while Shōki’s sword subdues the others. “May” is printed in English on the right edge of the design, perhaps in an effort to make the print seem more fashionable at a moment when Western influence in Japan was growing. Images of Shōki are often hung to celebrate the Boys’ Day festival, which takes place in May.

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