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Title: Kyōsai’s Drawings for Pleasure (Kyōsai rakuga) 暁齋樂画
Artist:
Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Date: 1881, seventh month (Meiji 14)
Culture: Japan
Medium: Set of two woodblock-printed books (one volume orihon, accordion-style); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: each: 8 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (22.5 × 15 cm)
Classification: Illustrated Books
Credit Line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013
Accession Number: 2013.766a, b
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