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A large octopus is encircled by a huge rosary held by various bizarre creatures. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1864.
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: 1864Reference: 37699i- Pictures
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The Buddhist guardian deity, Fudô Myôô, reading a government propaganda publication, enthusing about Western customs and modernisation: one attendant prepares meat, another warms sake in the sacred flame. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1874.
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: 1874Reference: 37709i- Pictures
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People bewitched (?) by a tengu (Japanese mountain demon) Colour woodcut attributed to Kyōsai, 187-(?).
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: Between 1870 and 1879(?)]Reference: 565213i- Pictures
Scenes three and four from the play Chūshingura (Treasury of loyal retainers, the forty-seven samurai). Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1870s.
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: [between 1870 and 1879]Reference: 37705i- Pictures
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Above, a festival procession held on the fifth day of the fifth month; below, cherry blossoms at Koganu, west of Tokyo. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, ca. 1870.
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: [1870?]Reference: 567311i