Hanga
− by Kawanabe Kyosai — Japanese Woodblock print

by Kawanabe Kyosai

Medium:
Woodblock print
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.

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