Ghost of Kohada Koheiji ☳ Hokusai ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Espresso The subject of the painting

The subject of the painting is indeed Whistler's mother

It depicts a forest landscape where a man and a woman have taken refuge in a cave and are preparing a meal over a fire

embracing a fox

now a gardener at one of the farms in La Crau

and in a reflection on the water's surface

Ghost of Kohada Koheiji ☳ Hokusai ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Espresso The subject of the paintingThe Ghost of Kohada Koheiji (1832) by Katsushika Hokusai is from his ukiyo e woodblock series One Hundred Ghost Stories, although only five prints are known to exist. This print depicts a scene from the story of Kohada Koheiji, a kabuki actor who was drowned by his wife's lover but came back for revenge, killing her and driving the lover to madness then suicide. Here, the skeletal ghost of Kohada Koheiji pulls down the mosquito net and peers at the