Kyosai Kawanabe - Artist Info

About Kyosai Kawanabe

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Gyosai Kawanabe, Shojo Kyosai
  • Biography

    "Legacy of Genius: Kyosai and Kyosui," The Japan Times Culture, by Alice Gordenker, Apr 17, 2018

    The time seems to be ripe to bring Japanese women artists out of the shadow of famous fathers. The first was Katsushika Hokusai’s daughter Oi, whose life in the 19th century has been dramatized in novels, manga and even a new television series. Now, through an exhibition devoted to another parent-child pair in Japanese art, we meet Kyosui (1868-1935), the daughter of genius painter Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889).

    The two don’t share equal billing and papa clearly steals this show. Nevertheless, “Kyosai and Kyosui: The Soul of the Artist as Pioneered by Father and Daughter,” at the Tokyo Fuji Art Mu...

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