UNIDENTIFIED ARTISTS

UNIDENTIFIED ARTISTS

MEIJI OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY

Two Japanese yurei-zu kakemono (hanging scroll paintings of ghosts), both ink and colour on paper, each a gruesome depiction of a female ghost, the first a nearly-headless figure with a sickle dug deep in her neck, a red seal mark lower right, 54.5cm x 23cm; the other grimacing whilst holding a severed head, with lines of calligraphy, signed and with two red seal marks, 98 cm x 29.5cm, one with a tomobako wood box. (3)