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Collections

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Demons of Illness and Poverty Stalking the Lucky Gods1884

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print on cream paper, three-panel horizontal composition with two figures confronting a giant white sack containing a small grimacing creature, with Japanese text and red seals

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Demons of Illness and Poverty Stalking the Lucky Gods, 1884, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
Demons of Illness and Poverty Stalking the Lucky Gods
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1884
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Triptych; color woodblock prints
Dimensions
13 7/8 x 29 5/16 in. (35.2 x 74.4 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.78a-c
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.
  • Williams, Marjorie L. Japanese Prints: Realites of the "Floating World." Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983.