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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
- South Building, lower level 1, Asian Lantern galleries
- 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’.
While keeping the landscapes and settings unchanged, Mizuki replaced the human figures in the woodblock prints with 'yōkai' (supernatural beings). Odawara includes a self-portrait of the artist as a bespectacled water-dwelling 'yōkai' known as a 'kappa'.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Japan Supernatural, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 2019–08 Mar 2020
Elemental, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jul 2022–2024
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Provenance
Adachi Hanga, 2008-13 Aug 2019, Japan, produced by Adachi Hanga (print company), Japan. Purchased through Yanoman (company), Japan, by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, August 2019.