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Young visitors drew some of their favourite demons from Kuniyoshi's print The Earth Spider conjures up demons at the mansion of Minamoto no Raikō, 1843. They also invented some of their own demons to fight in the battle!
Isaac Healey, age 7
Annabel Hewitson, age 11
Annabel Hewitson, age 11
Kuniyoshi is most famous for producing prints of Chinese warriors, but he was also highly skilled at drawing animals. Young people were asked to draw the two dangerous animals that the warriors are fighting in these prints: The Chinese warrior Ding Desun kills a giant snake, 1827–30, and The Japanese warrior Kashiwade no Hanoshi kills a tiger in Korea, 1830–32.
Isaac Healey, age 7
Annabel Hewitson, age 11
There are lots of weird and wonderful tattoos on the warriors' bodies and our young visitors came up with their own designs.
Annabel Hewitson, age 11
Isaac, aged 7
They also designed their own kimonos.
Isaac Healey, age 7
Annabel Hewitson, age 11
Lucy Hewitson, age 9
Kuniyoshi produced a series of prints which have come to be known as 'poetic landscapes'. Young visitors wrote poems on their favourite landscape images from the series.
Isaac Healey, age 7
Annabel Hewitson, age 11
In some of his prints, Kuniyoshi depicted theatrical performances on stage. Young visitors designed their own theatre stage-sets based on ideas and designs collected throughout the exhibition.
Issac, aged 7
