THE GREEDY OLD WOMAN (DON'YOKU NO BABA)

Name: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Brand: THE GREEDY OLD WOMAN (DON'YOKU NO BABA)
Price: 3200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 4,000

Estimate

GBP 600 - GBP 800

Closed: 21 Apr 2015

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

THE GREEDY OLD WOMAN (DON'YOKU NO BABA)

Price Realised GBP 4,000

Closed: 21 Apr 2015

Price Realised GBP 4,000

Closed: 21 Apr 2015

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
The Greedy Old Woman (Don'yoku no baba)
Woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Ghost Stories from China and Japan (Wakan hyaku monogatari)
Signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga, published by Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Kinjiro), September 1865
Vertical oban (35.6 x 24.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

This design is based on the well-known story of The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, where an old woman, seeing her husband rewarded with a basket of treasure for feeding an enchanted sparrow, cuts off the tongue of the sparrow. She then uses devious means to also receive a basket from the sparrow, expecting it to also be full of treasure, but when she opens it demons spring out and attack her. This print shows the moment that the greedy old woman opens the basket from the sparrow and the demons spring out.

See also lot 118 for a triptych by Utagawa Yoshimori depicting the same scene.

For another impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession number 11.37644, go to www.mfa.org/collections