About this Print
Sources: Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting, Brenda G. Jordan and Victoria Weston, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p.96-97Beginning with the fourth illustration [of Kyosai gadan], Kyosai offered his readers a series of anatomy drawings showing the alignment of muscles or the underlying skeletal structure of the human body.
Sources: Demon of Painting: the Art of Kawanabe Kyōsai, Timothy Clark, British Museum Press, 1993, p. 29 and Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting, Brenda G. Jordan; Victoria Weston, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 103
Several pages of Kyosai gadan reproduce Western anatomical drawings given to him by Conder, but more as a curiosity than anything else.
According to Conder, Kyosai regarded with profound respect the scientific knowledge of anatomical form, perspective and sciography revealed to him in foreign works.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog |
#298 |
| Title or Description | Drawing based on Western anatomical drawing showing rear facing man and skeleton from the book Kyosai Gadan, Volume 1. |
| Artist | Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889) |
| Signature | None |
| Seal | None |
| Publication Date | 1887 (Meiji 20) |
| Publisher | Iwamoto Shun |
| Engraver |
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| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Genre | ehon (illustrated book) - Meij era (1868-1912) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper |
8 1/4 x 10 in. (21 x 25.4 cm) each sheet |
| Collections Holding "Gyosai Gadan" | Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum; Waseda University Library; British Museum |
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