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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Wicked Thoughts of the Priest Raigō of Miidera Transform Him into a Rat1891, January

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print, vertical, depicting an elderly monk in an orange robe crouching near a tree trunk while oversized rats gather below and small white animal forms fly overhead

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Wicked Thoughts of the Priest Raigō of Miidera Transform Him into a Rat, 1891, January, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
The Wicked Thoughts of the Priest Raigō of Miidera Transform Him into a Rat
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1891, January
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/16 × 8 15/16 in. (33.5 × 22.7 cm) Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in. (36.83 × 25.24 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.124
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Keyes, Roger and George Kuwayama. The Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi: The Herbert R. Cole Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.