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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) | Three woodblock prints from the series Japanese Brocades from the Genroku Period (Genroku Yamato nishiki) | Meiji period, late 19th century

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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) 

Three woodblock prints from the series Japanese Brocades from the Genroku Period (Genroku Yamato nishiki)

Meiji period, late 19th century


each a woodblock print, from the series Japanese Brocades from the Genroku Period (Genroku Yamato nishiki), signed Seisei Kyosai ga, published by Takekawa Seikichi, 1886, and comprising: 

- Horibe Yasubei Taketsune, with hand-applied lead pigment

- Oishi Sezaemon Nobukiyo and Terasaka Kichiemon Nobuyuki

- Yoshida Sawaemon and Okuda Magodayu



Each vertical oban: 

37.3 x 25.1 cm., 14¾ x 10 in. (the first)

37.3 x 25.9 cm., 14¾ x 10¼ in. (the second)

37.5 x 25.1 cm., 14⅞ x 10 in. (the third)

For further examples of each print in the collection of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, collection IDs 92202045, 92202040 and 92202047, go to: 

https://museumcollection.tokyo/en/


The work of Kawanabe Kyosai is being exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts (The RA), London, Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection, 19 March - 19 June 2022.