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- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Waseda University
- Image courtesy of
- Waseda University
Description
This unidentified Kawanabe Kyosai woodblock print is known by its institutional sequence number rather than a confirmed title. Kyosai's printmaking encompasses a substantial range of formats and subjects — from large oban sheets suitable for display to smaller album-format compositions intended for close study. His kacho-e bird-and-flower prints demonstrate the same anatomical precision he brought to figure subjects, reflecting training in both naturalistic observation and classical Chinese bird painting conventions transmitted through the Kanô school. His supernatural and mythological prints draw on a thorough knowledge of Buddhist visual culture, Chinese literary subjects, and Japanese legend. This print participates in the nishiki-e tradition of Edo and Meiji 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).