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May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu)", 1887. Color woodblock prints; oban triptych.
Color woodblock prints; oban triptych · 35.7 × 73.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu)"
- Artist
- Kawanabe Kyosai Japanese, 1831-1889
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- Color woodblock prints; oban triptych
- Dimensions
- 35.7 × 73.2 cm (14 1/16 × 28 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick W. Gookin
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1831–1889
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.