The title wall of the exhibition "New Ghosts for A New Age," with text and Japanese prints on a dark blue wall.

New Ghosts for A New Age: Yoshitoshi’s New Forms of 36 Ghosts

August 29–November 30, 2014

Lockhart Gallery

This exhibition showcases the series New Forms of 36 Ghosts by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), the most important Japanese woodcut artist of the Meiji period. Trained in centuries-old artistic traditions, Yoshitoshi was also an eyewitness to the conflict and change in Japanese culture after the country opened to the west in 1868.

Woodcut of a man in Japanese clothing sitting in front of a screen.
Kiyomori Sees Hundreds of Skulls at Fukuhara from “New Forms of 36 Ghosts”, 1890
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Woodcut. Collection of Arthur R. Miller, New York

Created near the end of his life, the individual prints, with their dramatic, sometimes terrifying subject matter, are linked only by the inclusion of supernatural beings—ghosts, demons, and  monsters—drawn from the ancient legends of Japanese history and theater.

The title wall of the exhibition "New Ghosts for A New Age," with text and Japanese prints on a dark blue wall.
New Ghosts for A New Age: Yoshitoshi’s New Forms of 36 Ghosts on view in the Lockhart Gallery in 2014

This exhibition is presented in honor of Grant Holcomb (Director, Memorial Art Gallery, 1985–2014).

Featured Image CreditNew Ghosts for A New Age: Yoshitoshi’s New Forms of 36 Ghosts on view in the Lockhart Gallery in 2014

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