This exhibition presents 25 delightfully spooky ukiyo-e prints, including a number of dramatic multiple sheet images that have rarely been on public display before.



All the works are original colour woodblock prints on paper and are mounted and framed. The exhibition selection includes 16 portrait prints and eight hair-raising landscape triptychs, depicting a wide selection of ghostly apparitions such as magical frogs, supernatural gatherings and a drowned ghost-army. The exhibition also includes a rare vertical diptych by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.



The exhibition is perfect to coincide with Halloween but can suit any time of the year. In Japan ghosts are associated with the hot and humid summer months, when scary stories send a welcome shiver down the spine!



The exhibition can be adapted to suit all venue sizes up to 150 square metres and comes with object labels and interpretation panel content and design. The exhibition is usually available to hire for a 12 week display period.

The exhibition hire fee includes:

• The selection of mounted and framed woodblock ukiyo-e prints



• Transport of exhibition from and return to Oxford (if venue is under 140 miles from the Ashmolean), and technical installation support if required

• Object labels and text panel content and design

• The exhibition's curator will be available for a lecture at the touring venue



• A selection of three images (to be determined by the venue) for use in the venue's press and publicity

• Object preparation and condition reporting

• Tour co-ordination by the Ashmolean Museum Registrars' Department