Showing posts with label Edo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edo. Show all posts

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Japanese Pumpkin Monster for Halloween

Halloween is coming up soon, so this year  the Ota Memorial Museum of Art shows us the Edo period version of the Jack-O-Lantern. It is a pumpkin monster called "Sunamura no Onryo" drawn by Yoshikazu Utagawa. Sunamura is present-day Koto Ward in Tokyo. It was known for producing pumpkins. The limbs are made of leaves and vines.