A mother suffocates her baby; above, her vision of demons torturing her as punishment after her own death. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki Utagawa, 1868.

  • Utagawa, Kuniaki, 1835-1888.
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1868]
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564988i
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A mother suffocates her baby; above, her vision of demons torturing her as punishment after her own death. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki Utagawa, 1868. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In the vision, a grotesque god presides at a table covered with a cloth printed with the omote manji, a figure resembling a reversed swastika, symbolising infinite mercy.

Publication/Creation

[Edo [Tokyo] (?) : [publisher not identified], 1868]

Physical description

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours ; sheet 35.1 x 24 cm

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Lettering

Extensive lettering in Japanese

Reference

Wellcome Collection 564988i

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