Category Archives: Demons

Demon with a Child’s Head, from the series Ghost Tales

Posted on October 19, 2013 by ubu507

1830 Artist/Maker: Katsushika Hokusai Japanese, 1760-1849 Color woodblock print Allen Memorial Art Museum

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Okute: The Goddess Kannon Prevents the Hag of Adachi Moor from Killing a Young Girl, no. 48 from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road

Posted on October 15, 2013 by ubu507

  Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852 Allen Memorial Art Museum

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By The 1%, For The 1%

Posted on September 18, 2012 by ubu507

Set your mind at rest, we shall keep open table, and the most unbounded appetites shall be satisfied. It is, after all, the easiest way of governing… —  Émile Zola, La Curée

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The actor Nakamura Shikan II as a demon playing a samisen.

Posted on October 19, 2011 by ubu507

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) Japanese (1786-1864) ca. 1830-1840 Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

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