Kyosai’s Rakuga 暁齋樂画 “Drawings for Pleasure” Engraving Worn vellum with toning

Worn vellum with toning

a famous Shogun who unified Japan during the Sengoku civil wars of the late 1500s

so Bodadilla immediately had him arrested and put in leg-irons

-Leaves 56 - 75 - Hours of the Dead (fragmentary)

which were far superior to the crude original woodblock prints

Kyosai’s Rakuga 暁齋樂画 “Drawings for Pleasure” Engraving Worn vellum with toningBeautiful album of traditional Japanese scenes from one of the last masters of traditional Japanese painting Kyosais Rakuga Drawings for Pleasure Kawanabe KYOSAI (1831 1889) Published in Tokyo 1881 by Takeda 2 volumes of 18 pages each. 33 double page colour woodblock prints in total. 21 x 14 cm approx. Complete album with original covers in near fine condition. Protected in a modern Japanese folding case Kyosai was one of the most unique artists of