Demons emerge from a colorful Kawanabe Kyōsai's colorful woodblock print

Popkin 5:16 am Tue Feb 11, 2025

Kawanabe Kyōsai (public domain)

Demons Emerge from a Large, Wooden Chest is a gorgeous woodblock print by Kawanable Kyōsai. The print was made in 1890. It's from his book Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, which features a selection of similar prints.

The detailed style that these demons are drawn in makes them feel so alive. I love their expressive, mischievous faces and the pastel palette used to color them. The illustrations in this book are incredible on their own, but I can also imagine them as amazing comic book illustrations.

From the Public Domain Review: "Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889), aka "The Demon of Painting", composed this book of woodblock illustrations toward the end of a life that had begun during the Edo period, when Japan was still a feudal country, and ended in the midst of the Meiji period, when the country was transforming into a modern state."

See also: Demon rug

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