Kawanabe Kyôsai
1831–1889 · Japanese painting · 7 works
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831 to 1889) began studying at six with the ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi, then trained in the Kano school before setting up on his own. Living through the change from shogunate to Meiji government, he ranged across painting and prints and was known for humor, parody and a fondness for wine.
7 works · 1865–1889
1865–1889 · 4 works
Walk these 4In the last decades of shogun rule, literati painters such as Yamamoto Baiitsu, Nakabayashi Chikutō and Tsubaki Chinzan studied Chinese painting closely, even copying Chinese albums with their inscriptions. Shibata Zeshin, also a master of lacquer, and Kawanabe Kyōsai, trained in ukiyo-e and the Kano school, carried wit and demons into the Meiji era that began in 1868.
In the museum: Japanese painting room · 2 works
1880–1887 · 3 works
Walk these 3
Chōbunsai Eishi
Nanamachi of the Yotsumeya with Attendants Sumano and Akashi, c. 1787
Hon’ami Kōetsu
A Poem from the Shin Kokinshu with Design of Shinobugusa (Moss Fern), 1605-10
Ike Taiga
Fishing in a Springtime Valley, 1700s
