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 |
Reference Literature |