Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 120428
Kaiju Manga - Sea Monster
- Artist / 作者
- Kristensen TomTom Kristensen
- Date / 年代
- 2007
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Heisei / artelino
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1033 × 1400 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Artelino
- Published by / 公開者
- 紫藤メイ
- Rights / 権利
- All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
- Attribution / 表記
- Artelino
Catalog note / 解説
No. 8 of the Kaiju Manga series, "The Umibozu" (it means "Sea Monster"). The folklore related to the sea are littered with nightmarish tales of sea monsters. The huge mysterious being suddenly emerges and snatches away helpless seamen or wrecks boats by its long tentacles, and drags them into the bottom of the deep ocean from which it came. "Umibozu" can be colossus (Kuniyoshi's famous sea monster in artelino archive #2158) or small (artelino archive #32349). Here, Mr. Kristensen's version is an awesome octopus. Its huge tentacles equipped with powerful suction cups will not allow anything to escape. The equally powerful "suction" must come from another "bozu". This one in the design is a B…
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