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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Date
- 2008
- Media category
- 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
- Artist information
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Mizuki Shigeru
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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.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Japan Supernatural, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 2019–08 Mar 2020