Cartoons by Kyôsai (Kyôsai manga)
Description
A woodblock-printed collection of Kyosai's cartoons and caricatures, gathered under the title "Kyosai manga" — the word "manga" here carrying its older meaning of "impromptu sketches" rather than its modern sense of comic books. Like Hokusai's celebrated Hokusai Manga before it, Kyosai's compilation presented an encyclopedic range of subject matter: gods, demons, animals, comic figures, ordinary people, and fantastical creatures drawn with bewildering speed and sureness. These publications were enormously influential on later generations of Japanese illustrators.
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
More Figures Prints
Frequently Asked Questions
Cartoons by Kyôsai (Kyôsai manga) was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
Cartoons by Kyôsai (Kyôsai manga) depicts figures, daily life, and animals.