A New Selection of Big Fans (Shinsen O-Uchiwa)
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764)
Edo period (1615–1868), n.d.
- Medium
- Woodblock printed book, sumizuri-e
- Classification
- Book
- Dimensions
- 22 × 16 cm (8 11/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
