Kyōka hyaku monogatari 狂歌百物語|Poems on One Hundred Ghost Stories
Medium
Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
9 × 6 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (22.9 × 16.2 × 3.8 cm)
Classification
Illustrated Books
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
JIB27
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Masazumi Ryusai 正澄竜斎 · 1800–1899
**Masazumi Ryusai (正澄竜斎, 1800–1899)** was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist active during the late Edo period. He specialized in polychrome illustrations that captured both the everyday and the supernatural, contributing to the vibrant tradition of popular printmaking in 19th-century Japan. Ryusai is best known for his illustrations in the 1853 book *Poems on One Hundred Ghost Stories* (*...