Picture Books of Kawanabe Kyosai – Japanese Art Book by Kyosai Edo Meiji Era

Kyosai Ehon - Picture Books of Kawanabe Kyosai\n\nDescription\nKyosai Ehon - Picture Books of Kawanabe Kyosai\nBeyond \""Hokusai Manga\""!? The unknown charm of Kyosai is condensed. 224 selected representative \""picture books\"" from the prints in the collection of the Ota Memorial Museum of Art.\nFrom the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period, Kawanabe Kyosai (1831\u20131889) was a painter who, although a member of the Kano school, also painted many ukiyo-e prints. In recent years, his free-spirited style of painting has attracted attention, and his hand-painted paintings and prints have been introduced in many exhibitions and books, but on the other hand, there is a genre called \""picture books\"" that has not received much attention until now.\n\""Picture books\"" are not books for children, but woodblock picture books that compile Kyosai's various pictures in one volume. From skeletons to anatomical diagrams, frogs, cats, and even monsters, Kyosai's dynamic and humorous pictures ar.