Mitsukuni Defying the Skeleton Specter - Utagawa Kuniyoshi Art Print
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Weeds have found the floorboards. Grass pushes through umber planks where courtiers once knelt, and the abandoned palace of Taira no Masakado now belongs to his daughter and her guest. Utagawa Kuniyoshi staged this Japanese ghost art across three ōban sheets around 1844, borrowing the scene from Santō Kyōden’s 1806 novel about the rebel’s fallen house in Shimōsa province.
Takiyasha the Witch keeps reading. Behind her the black lattice of a shattered screen frames her pale face. Gold-flecked reeds sweep past a pine green pillar wrapped in torn curtains. Then the ivory skull arrives, its sockets wide enough to swallow a lantern. Fans today call this creature a gashadokuro.
Crouched beneath its ribs, the retainer Arai-maru braces in a vermilion robe trimmed with white fur. Twin red cartouches sign the floor for Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi, the Edo ukiyo-e master who loved warriors and monsters in equal measure. This Mitsukuni Defying the Skeleton Specter print turns any wall into a hall where the dead still keep their appointments.
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Framed Art Prints
1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
Framed Canvas
1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
1. Cost
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2. Produced on Demand
Printed after you purchase at print labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS. Produced, quality checked, packed with care and handed to trusted shipping carriers within 72-96 hours on average.
3. Production + Shipping =
USA: 4-9 days • Canada: 5-12 days • UK: 4-9 days • EU: 5-10 days • AUS: 4-9 days • NZ: 5-12 days • Rest of the world: 3-4 weeks
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