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Artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Date: before 1870
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Image: 37 1/4 × 14 1/8 in. (94.6 × 35.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 73 × 19 1/4 in. (185.4 × 48.9 cm) Overall with knobs: 73 × 21 1/8 in. (185.4 × 53.7 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Paintings
Department: Asian Art
Credit line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2018
Accession no.: 2018.22

Night Procession of Goblins (Hyakki yagyo no zu)
Kawanabe Kyosai
c.1865 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00000797
Bijin (Beauty), one of six sketches
Kawanabe Kyosai
no date · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00001355
Two Horses in Chinese Style, one of six sketches
Kawanabe Kyosai
no date · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00001356
Daruma (Bodhidharma), one of six sketches
Kawanabe Kyosai
no date · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00001357

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.