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Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kyōsai's Intoxicated Drawings, Vol. 21883, July 26

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Two-panel woodblock print in black ink on cream paper, showing a large bird in the left panel and a bearded, bald figure in the right panel, surrounded by cascading diagonal lines suggesting rushing water
Japanese woodblock-printed book page with three horizontal registers depicting groups of figures in robes in dynamic, tumbling poses among scattered objects and pine saplings; vertical column of Japanese text at right margin.
Japanese woodblock print illustration showing six figures in Heian-period court robes arranged across a rocky landscape, with columns of Japanese calligraphy at left.
Woodblock print page with a dense crowd of fantastical figures, demons, and humans swirling around a central cylindrical object, rendered in fine black ink lines on gray ground; vertical column of Japanese text at right margin.
Japanese woodblock print with black ink on pale paper, depicting a chaotic scene of fantastical figures and demons tumbling together; a tall central figure in dark robes towers over sprawling, contorted figures below; vertical columns of Japanese text at upper right and left margins
Woodblock-printed book page with two stacked illustrations and a vertical column of Japanese text at right. Top panel: a chaotic scene of oni demons and fantastical creatures in dynamic motion, rendered in fine black lines. Bottom panel: two demonic figures with wild hair and grimacing faces crouching over a cauldron, with suspended implements hanging from a rod above.
Japanese woodblock print spread across two pages, depicting two eccentric figures amid rocky outcroppings and gnarled branches; left figure is gaunt and disheveled with flowing hair, right figure is corpulent and grinning with a frog atop his head; columns of Japanese calligraphy appear between and beside the figures, with fine hatched linework throughout.
Woodblock-printed book page with multiple figures arranged across a cream ground, rendered in fluid ink lines. Several robed figures in various poses, including a bearded elder seated atop a dark animal, a scholar bending over an open scroll, and smaller figures below. Chinese characters label each figure throughout the composition.

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Kyōsai's Intoxicated Drawings, Vol. 2, 1883, July 26, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Title
Kyōsai's Intoxicated Drawings, Vol. 2
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1883, July 26
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Color woodblock printed book; volume 2 of 2
Dimensions
7 3/8 x 4 15/16 in. (18.7 x 12.5 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.519
Classification
Books
Collecting Area
Japanese Art