print / drawing
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- British Museum
Description
A work presented both as a print and as a drawing, suggesting a preparatory or documentary status — perhaps a preliminary study for a larger print, or a unique work that bridges Kyosai's two primary media of ink drawing and woodblock printing. The distinction between drawing and print was, for Kyosai, less absolute than it might appear: his prints often have the spontaneous, brushy quality of drawings, while his drawings show the compositional rigor he had internalized through years of print design.
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 / drawing was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
print / drawing depicts figures and daily life.