Legendary Creatures: A Look at Mythology in Ukiyo-e Art- Zadie S.

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  • A terrifying decaying body leans over a curtain. Its skin is falling off, revealing skeletal and muscular structures beneath. This popular image by famous Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai depicts a famous ghost story in Japan, of Kohada Koheiji, a Kabuki actor who was drowned by his wife and the man she was having an affair with. His specter comes back to haunt them.
  • A large samurai stands holding a red, hairy demon upside down. The samurai holds a sword over the demon, ready to skewer him.
  • Susano-o no Mikoto, a samurai, holds a sword in his hand over the main head of an eight-headed dragon. The print is minimal in color, with dull blues and greens amidst the black and white of the rest of the print.
  • A black and white photograph, depicting three men stand in front of logging locomotive. Two more people to their right stand at the front of the train.
  • A wild bird sits, white and pink, facing a large palm tree that takes up the entire right side of the painting. In the foreground, a large palmetto leaf fans out across the entire frame, and behind it sit other tropical plants, green and blue. In the background, mountains and a volcano, colored indigo, sit in front of a teal sea, and beneath a light blue sky.
  • An oil painting of Christ in a blue robe reclining on some clouds. His right hand is resting on a globe, while his left is raised near his face. Two cherubs hide around him.