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Title
Odawara
2008
Artist
Mizuki Shigeru
Japan
1922 - 2015

About
Mizuki Shigeru was an artist, historian and folklorist perhaps best known for ‘GeGeGe no Kitarō’ (Spooky Kitarō), a manga and anime series he created in the 1960s. Mizuki’s work built on that of earlier artists including Toriyama Sekien (1712–88), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). In 2008, he reimagined Hiroshige’s famous 1833–34 series ‘Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō’ (the east-west route between Edo, now Tokyo, and Kyoto) as the ‘Fifty-three stations of the Yōkaido’, with yōkai inserted into every scene.
'Odawara' includes a self portrait of the artist as a bespectacled water-dwelling kappa yōkai.
Details
Date
2008
Materials used
woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
Dimensions
27.8 x 38.8 cm
Credit
Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 2019
Location
Not on display
Accession number
146.2019.2
Copyright
© Estate of Mizuki Shigeru

Place
Where the work was made
Japan
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
Japan Supernatural, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 2019–08 Mar 2020