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- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Waseda University
- Image courtesy of
- Waseda University
Description
This unidentified Kawanabe Kyosai woodblock print belongs to the artist's broad output across multiple genres and series produced during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Kyosai worked across an unusually wide range of subjects — mythological and supernatural scenes, satirical cartoons, classical Chinese and Japanese literary themes, kacho-e bird-and-flower compositions, and genre scenes — all executed with the confident brushwork of an artist trained simultaneously in Kanô academic painting and the popular ukiyo-e tradition. Without a confirmed title, the precise subject of this print remains unidentified; it is catalogued here by its institutional accession sequence. The print is rendered in the nishiki-e polychrome technique characteristic of Edo- and Meiji-period commercial woodblock production.
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).