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Kawanabe Kyôsai
(1831 - 1889)
Rats mangeant une tête de poisson
1881
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris) / Harry Bréjat
Guimet Museum
http://www.guimet.fr/fr/
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Keywords:
head (animal)
art japonais
ukiyo-e (estampe)
eating (action of)
rat
fish
mort (animal)
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About the artwork
Title:
Rats mangeant une tête de poisson
Periods:
19th century
XIXth century
Techniques:
nishike-e print
Dimensions:
211 x 272
Inventory number:
IJ617(1)
Detail:
Page d'album Dessins pour le plaisir
Location:
Guimet Museum
About the author(s)
Author:
Kawanabe Kyôsai
Born:
1831
Dead:
1889
Country:
Japon
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Kawanabe Kyōsai
(
河鍋 暁斎
, May 18, 1831–April 26, 1889)
was a Japanese artist, in the words of a critic, "an individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional Japanese painting". Living through the Edo period to the Meiji period, Kyōsai witnessed Japan transform itself from a feudal country into a modern state. Born at Koga, he was the son of a samurai. His first aesthetic shock was at the age of nine when he picked up a human head apart from a corpse in the Kanda river…
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