Fujiwara Hidesato Shooting the Centipede

Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (Japanese, 1839–1892)

DateAugust 24, 1890

Mediumwoodblock print, ink and color on paper

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Credit LineAlexander H. Bullock Fund

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Object number2002.211

DescriptionPrinted August 22, 1890; published: August 24, 1890
Label Text2003-04-03: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-92) Fujiwara Hidesato Shooting the Centipede at the Dragon King's Palace Printed August 22, 1890; published: August 24, 1890 Series: "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts" Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; vertical oban Alexander H. Bullock Fund, 2002.211 Fujiwara Hidesato is the hero of a legend in which he kills a giant centipede. One day while crossing the Seta Bridge near Lake Biwa in Omi province near Kyoto, Hidesato was confronted by a dragon. When he bravely walked on its back, it suddenly transformed itself into an old man. The old man, actually the Dragon King Ryujin, praised Hidesato for his courage and asked him to slay the monster-centipede Mukade which terrorized the lake. While watching over the sleeping Princess Otohime in Ryujin's underwater palaProvenanceKatie and Scott McDonald, Rochester, NY

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