Harvard Art Museum

A print from the Harvard Art Museums collection depicting one of Kyosai's characteristic subjects rendered in the woodblock medium with the fluid authority of his mature style. The Harvard collection is particularly rich in Kyosai works spanning his entire career, and this print represents the kind of carefully preserved example that allows scholars to trace his development across the turbulent decades of the Meiji transformation. Even within an institutional context, the work demonstrates the personal, unmistakable mark of Kyosai's hand.