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Kawanabe Kyōsai

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Woodcut of women and a child walking past western-style buildings on a city street, with a carriage in the background.

A city with western-style buildings (in Japan?), in which a western couple are observed by Japanese. Woodcut after Ky…

Black crow on a plum branch with blossoms before a pale full moon, with calligraphy and red seals in the margins.

Full Moon with Crow on Plum Branch

1880s

Japanese print of Shoki the demon queller riding a tiger, swinging a sword at a group of goblins on the left.

May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth…

1887

Black and grey carp leaping upward through diagonal streams of white water, with dark rocks on each side.

Carp Ascending Falls

late 19th century

Japanese woodblock print of tumbling men in patterned kimono among splintered wood, with a circular landscape vignette above.

書画五拾三駅駿河鞠子宿場ノ狂戯

Black crow perched on a grey rock beside a bare branch, with calligraphy and a red seal in the upper right corner.

Crow Resting on Wood Trunk

Two children in colorful robes on the ground, one reaching toward a green grasshopper, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Twee kinderen kijkend naar sprinkhaan

1880

Triptych woodblock print of a comic rosary procession with a giant octopus, demons, a mounted rider, and townspeople.

A comic Buddhist rosary procession

1864

Japanese print of a tiger seated before a folding screen, with plum branches, scrolls, brushes and a flower basket on a red c

Standing Screen (Tsuitate) of a Tiger

1878

Colored Japanese woodblock print of three seated courtiers in kimono before a green-paneled wall and a draped platform.

Drie hovelingen

1870

Kneeling woman in red robe with long black hair leans against a pillar beside a hanging purple scroll, Japanese print.

Glurende hofdame

1870

Colored Japanese woodblock print of a water carrier, two seated women with a tub, and nude bathing figures in a yellow field.

Waterdrager

1870

Ink and colour print of three nude figures in explicit sexual poses on a yellow ground, in Japanese style.

Copulerende man en vrouw

1870

Hand-colored woodblock print of four Heian-style court figures seated beside a green palace wall under a pale moon.

Hovelingen

1870

Hand-colored Japanese woodblock print of multiple figures in traditional dress and nude figures on a yellow background.

Penis opmetingen

1870

Hand-colored Japanese print of nude men lounging in the air and on a yellow awning above blue waves.

Rustende mannen

1870

Hand-coloured print of nude figures in various poses with exaggerated genitals wrapped in blue cloth on yellow ground.

Verbonden penis

1870

Hand-coloured Japanese print of nude caricatured figures dancing around a drum, a fan, and a robed figure on yellow.

Gong

1870

Japanese print of nude figures in tumbling, dynamic poses within a black-framed rectangle on a yellow background.

Orgie

1870

Triptych Japanese print of samurai in battle with an explosion, flying debris and burning structures.

Battle of Nanba (Nanba senki no uchi)

after 1871

Japanese woodblock print of a coiled snake pine with a heron, overlooking a bay with boats, houses and mountains at dusk.

Snake Pine at Tago Bay

1863

Japanese triptych print with a central circle of dancing figures beside a seated old man, flanked by a fenced garden and a tr

Tale of the Tongue-cut Sparrow

1892

Woodblock print of a white-haired warrior swinging a sword over a fallen figure, with a black helmet and red tassels above.

Okuda Sademon Yukitaka

1886

Japanese woodblock print of a samurai with a spear above a snowy riverbank, with a fallen figure in rushing water below.

Horibe Yasube Taketsune tijdens een nachtelijke aanval

1886