Ghost Rising from a Swamp ☳ Kunisada ☱ Art Print portrait van Gogh painted it from

van Gogh painted it from memory at The Yellow House

His room faced east

and in the painting's center

Heard the sounds of a reed instrument

Ghost Rising from a Swamp ☳ Kunisada ☱ Art Print portrait van Gogh painted it fromOnoe Baiko as a Female Ghost Rising from a Swamp (1838) by Utagawa Kunisada depicts the kabuki actor Onoe Baiko, renowned for his skill at portraying ghosts. The character may be the ghost of the wife of Kohada Koheiji in the play Eiri otogi zoshi. Koheiji was murdered in a swamp by his wife's lover, returning in death to kill his wife and murderer. The female ghost here is clutching a baby, and rises from the swamp in the rain, next to a spectral