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Gyosai Kadan Nihen (Pictorial Accounts of Gyosai), Part II, Volume 3

Ky?sai studied many different types of painting and borrowed freely from varied sources when creating his own, innovative print designs. He shared his expertise in Japanese art history in his Treatise on Painting, which offers an analysis of various painting styles and schools as well as discussions of his place within those traditions. The volumes offer a valuable glimpse of how Meiji period artists understood their own artistic heritage.

Ky?sai spent only two years training in the studio of Kuniyoshi (from age seven to nine), but his time there made a profound impression on the young artist, who later excelled in creating heroic subjects like those of his master. In a double-page illustration, Ky?sai depicts himself as a child in Kuniyoshi’s studio, receiving tutelage while surrounded by a chaotic scene of playful cats and buffoonish older artists. In another double-page spread, Ky?sai traces the signature traits of the Utagawa figural style.


This text refers to these objects: 76.151.69.3; 76.151.69.2

• Artist: Kawanabe Kyosai, Japanese, 1831-1889
• Medium: Ink and light colors on paper
• Place Made: Japan
• Dates: 1887
• Period: Meiji Period
• Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 6 15/16 in. (25.6 x 17.6 cm)
• Collections: Asian Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 76.151.69.3
• Credit Line: Anonymous gift
• Image: Overall, 76.151.69.3_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Kawanabe Kyosai (Japanese, 1831-1889). Gyosai Kadan Nihen (Pictorial Accounts of Gyosai), Part II, Volume 3, 1887. Ink and light colors on paper, 10 1/16 x 6 15/16 in. (25.6 x 17.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Anonymous gift, 76.151.69.3 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 76.151.69.3_SL1.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: One of four volumes, complete, history of Japanese painting, each printed in ink and light colors on paper with some English, bound within paper covers. Part II, volume 3: Illustrations in style of Kano, Tosa, Chinese, Shijo and Ukiyo-e artists; lineage of painters. Condition: Very good.