print / album
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- British Museum
Description
A print album or collection presenting multiple works in a bound format, allowing Kyosai's sketches and finished compositions to be experienced as a curated sequence rather than as individual sheets. Albums were an important format in Meiji-era printmaking, giving artists control over the context in which their work was encountered and allowing for the kind of sustained aesthetic experience that individual prints could not provide. Kyosai's albums are among the best-documented records of his artistic range.
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
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Frequently Asked Questions
print / album was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
print / album depicts figures and calligraphy.