Hokusai’s Kohada Koheiji: the age-old pastime of telling ghost stories

This work from 1833, in which a murdered actor rises from the dead to spook his wife and her lover, shows there is more to the artist than his iconic waveThe murdered actor Kohada Koheiji looks like a zombie in Hokusai’s spooky print. He’s imagined as a skeleton with skin and hair still clinging to his skull. Though pictured as flesh and bone, however, this is a vision of a spectre, from the series One Hundred Ghost Tales. Continue reading...