The artists full of sympathy for the devil
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Skeleton soldiers, a horse with the head of a man, and other monsters advance in the growing darkness from Pictures of One Hundred Demons (Kyōsai hyakki gadan) (1890), Kawanabe Kyōsai. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The artists full of sympathy for the devil
Skeleton soldiers, a horse with the head of a man, and other monsters advance in the growing darkness from Pictures of One Hundred Demons (Kyōsai hyakki gadan) (1890), Kawanabe Kyōsai. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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