The Ghosts of Hokusai

Whilst the Japanese printmaker Hokusai is best known for his masterpiece "Under the Wave off Kanagawa", dig a little deeper and you'll find his wonderfully eerie ghost illustrations. Also known as yokai, his monster prints have been plucked from Japanese folklore. In his old age, Hokusai made a print series called One Hundred Ghost Stories. His five images have their own legend to accompany them. From the story of Oiwa, a possessed lantern who haunts her treacherous husband. To the Kohada Koheiji, a vengeful corpse that peers over the curtain to watch you sleep. Where do these monsters come from? And why was Hokusai so fixated by Ghost stories? All this and more, as we step into the ghoulish art of supernatural Japan. I enjoyed this one, and tried a bunch of new things too! Thank you all for 535k subscribers :) H. ------------- Music: Intro - Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian by Peter Pringle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTs​... Drops of Golden Sun by Yi Nantiro via Epidemic Sound Hokkaido by Saira Ridley via Epidemic Sound Anamorph Enigmatic via Epidemic Sound A Strange Sound by Damon Greene via Epidemic Sound Sights of the Tokyo Tower via Epidemic Sound Outro - Peaceful Ambient Music by CO.AG https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav... License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... ------------- Further Reading: Hokusai - Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai Hokusai's Supernatural World https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d5888f338b3242bdbcf853351faba9e2 The Bakemono Zukushi "Monster" Scroll (18th–19th century) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-bakemono-zukushi-monster-scroll-18th-19th-century ------------- Find me on Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hochelaga_yt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hochelaga_yt/ Discord: https://discord.gg/29tngpT --------- Email me: [email protected] #Hokusai #Yokai