The Ghost of Oyuki

The Ghost of Oyuki (お雪の幻, Oyuki no maboroshi) is a painting of a female yūrei, (a traditional Japanese ghost), by Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795),[1] founder of the Maruyama-Shijō school of painting.

[2] According to an inscription on the painting, Okyo had a mistress in the Tominaga Geisha house.

She died young and Okyo mourned her death.

Unable to get her image out of his head, he painted this portrait.

[3] This is one of the earliest paintings of a yūrei with the basic late-Edo period ghost characteristics: disheveled hair, white kimono, limp hands, nearly transparent, lack of lower body.