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The Ghost of Oyuki (お雪の幻 Oyuki no maboroshi) is a painting of a female yūrei (a traditional Japanese ghost) by Maruyama Okyo (1733–1795) founder of the Maruyama-Shijô school of painting.According to an inscription on the painting Okyo had a mistress in the Tominaga Geisha house. She died young and Okyo mourned her death. One night her spirit came to him in a dream and unable to get her image out of his head he painted this portrait.
