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Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

Japanese, 1831–1889

Portrait of Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
Portrait of Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

Japanese, 1831–1889

Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 was a Japanese Realism artist. 64 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them ink works. Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 was born in Koga.

Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋 暁斎; May 18, 1831 – April 26, 1889) was a Japanese painter and caricaturist. In the words of art historian Timothy Clark, "an individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional Japanese painting".

Works by Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

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