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- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image courtesy of
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description
This untitled woodblock print belongs to a group of works by Kawanabe Kyosai in which the artist's background in both academic Kano-school composition and popular Ukiyo-e subject matter is synthesised into a single sheet. Kyosai's unnumbered prints from his middle period — roughly the 1870s through 1880s — frequently engage with animal subjects, Buddhist iconography, or theatrical imagery drawn from kabuki. The oban-format sheet would carry the artist's distinctive seal, and the keyblock lines would echo the quality of freehand brushwork, a hallmark of how his designs were transferred to the woodblock by skilled artisans working closely with his studio.
More Prints by Kawanabe Kyosai
Tenpôzan in Osaka: Viewing Children's Sumo (Naniwa Tenpôzan kodomo sumô shôran), from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô
1863
Woodblock print
Kyosai, Royal Academy, London, FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING
2022
Original Museum Lithographic Exhibition Poster
from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)
Woodblock print
Gontazaka, from the series Scenes of Famous Places along the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô meisho fûkei), also known as the Processional Tôkaidô (Gyôretsu Tôkaidô), here called Tôkaidô meisho no uchi
Woodblock print
Frequently Asked Questions
- was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).