Woodblock print
Signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi and with artist's seal Kuniyoshi
Published by Ebisuya Shoshichi (Kinshodo), circa 1848-53
Censor's seals Hama (Hama Yahei) and Magome (Magome Kageyu)

The Chinese legend of the demon queller was adopted into Japanese folk mythology during the Kamakura period (1185-1392) and took on the name 'Shoki the Demon Queller'. Kuniyoshi is known to have designed at lease five full-length figure prints of Shoki.

The same print is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, museum no. 24709, go to:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129097/shoki-the-demon-queller-woodblock-print-utagawa-kuniyoshi/

The same print from the collection of Raymond A. Bidwell Collection is illustrated on the cover of the exhibition catalogue, UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI, An exhibition of the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) based on the Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Japanese Prints, The Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1980, and cat. no. 164.

For a different design in the collection of The British Museum, accession no. 2008,3037.21410, go to:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspX

Vertical oban: 37.3 x 26 cm. (14 ¾ x 10 ¼ in.)

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