- was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).

- by Kawanabe Kyosai — Japanese Woodblock print

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Medium:: Woodblock print
Source:: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image courtesy of: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Description

An untitled print from Kawanabe Kyosai's oeuvre, this woodblock sheet reflects the Meiji-era market for single-sheet prints that combined entertainment with technical virtuosity. Kyosai's prints issued during the 1870s through 1880s sometimes appeared in conjunction with popular fiction, rakugo storytelling traditions, or theatrical productions, and the images functioned both as standalone artworks and as cultural shorthand understood by literate urban viewers. The block-cutting translates Kyosai's brushwork into a vocabulary of varying line weights — thick outlines for figures, finer interior detail — a technical distinction that required skilled collaboration between the artist's studio and the publishing house's craftsmen.

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Description

More Prints by Kawanabe Kyosai

from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)

Old Picture of the Rashômon Gate (Rashômon no ko zu), 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 tsuzuki

Tsukishimadera Temple in Hyôgo (Hyôgo Tsukishimadera), 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

from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)

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