#oiwa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oiwa, aggregated by home.social.
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Yotsuya Kaidan pre-war postcard.
#Yotsuyakaidan #Oiwa #Yurei #Japanesehorror #四谷怪談 #怪談 #幽霊 -
Onoe Baiko VI (1870-1934) as Oiwa in Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan in 1909. He also played Otsuyu in the 1892 premiere of Strange Tales of the Peony Lantern at the Kabukiza.
#OnoeBaikoVI #六代目OnoueBaikoVI #Oiwa #PeonyLantern #Otsuyu #TokaidoYotsuyaKaidan #kabuki #onnagata #kabuki -
In the Japanese ghost story 'Yotsuya Kaidan,' Oiwa became an onryō (vengeful spirit) after her death and haunted her treacherous husband everywhere he went in various ways, perhaps the most striking of which was her disfigured face appearing in paper lanterns. #MythologyMonday
🎨: Katsushika Hokusai
#Folklore #GhostStory #Oiwa #YotsuyaKaidan #Ghost #Onryō #PaperLantern #Hokusai #Japan #JapaneseFolklore
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A lantern catching fire and shows the face of #Oiwa, #Hokusai, from One Hundred Ghost Tales, ca. 1830s, #Japanese color #WoodblockPrint (#ukiyoe), seen in the #Museum of #EastAsian #Art #Cologne.
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A nice poster for The Ghost of Yotsuya (Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan 東海道四谷怪談) (Shintōhō 1959).
#新東宝株式会社 #Shintōhō #TheGhostofYotsuya #TōkaidōYotsuyaKaidan #東海道四谷怪談 #TamiyaIemon #伊右衛門 #Oiwa #於岩 #JapaneseHorror #JapaneseGhost #Yūrei #幽霊#TsuruyaNanbokuIV #鶴屋南北