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Illusion of Blood was based on the kabuki play Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan by Nanboku Tsuruya, which had already been adapted to film before, including The Yotsuya Ghost Story I & II and The Yotsuya Ghost Story. This version of the film focuses on the increasing madness of the character of Iemon Tamiya. [1]
The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes is a Japanese art book published by print artist Utagawa Yoshishige as two volumes in 1848. Each image is an artist's print, and the source for each image is a single Japanese bowl landscape in the traditional bonkei art form. All individual bonkei specimens were created by a second artist ...
Utagawa Kuniyoshi's portrait of Oiwa.. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, [a] is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge.Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today.
(This print illustrates a scene from "Footing It along the Tokaido Road" (or "Shank's Mare") Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige ( 東海道中膝栗毛 ) , abbreviated as Hizakurige and known in translation as Shank's Mare , is a comic picaresque novel ( kokkeibon ) written by Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) about the misadventures of two ...
This print is from the first (Hoeiko) edition of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Travel, particularly along the Tōkaidō, was a very popular topic in art and literature at the time. A great many guidebooks of famous places were published and distributed at this time, and a culture of virtual tourism through books and pictures thrived.
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), in the Hōeidō edition (1833–1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832.
Tokaido (company), a Japanese company that manufactures karate uniforms, belts, and related products; Tōkaidō (region), a Japanese geographical term meaning both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through it; Tokaido, a board game designed by Antoine Bauza
The title page for the series of ukiyo-e prints.. The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō (木曾街道六十九次, Kisokaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi) or Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Road, is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen.