YOKOYAMA MOKUGYO (DATES UNKNOWN) MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY A Japanese y ū rei-zu kakemono (hanging scroll painting of a ghost), in ink and colour on silk, with a gruesome depiction of an emaciated female ghost grimacing whilst gazing at a severed head, the whiteness of the flesh contrasting with the buff ground; signed Yokoyama Mokugyo Dojin hitsu (Painted by Yokoyama Mokugyo, a man of Tao) and sealed, 86cm x 31.5cm.