Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋 暁斎, May 18, 1831 – April 26, 1889)

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Our teams have been busy installing this show-stopping 17-metre-long theatre curtain ahead of our #MangaExhibition opening later this month!

It was made by Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyōsai for the Shintomi Theatre on 30 June 1880. That day, after drinking a few bottles of rice wine, Kyōsai retreated to a studio and started painting. Just four hours later he emerged with the huge curtain, depicting members of the acting company as various kinds of monsters 👹👺

The curtain is on loan from the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University. See it on display and discover the global sensation of manga in our ground-breaking exhibition. Book tickets:http://ow.ly/cL5h30oBSYy

Kawanabe Kyōsai - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanabe_Kyōsai

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".

Bake-Bake Gakkō (化々學校), or "School for Spooks", woodblock print by Kyōsai. In August 1872, the Meiji government decided to implement a system of compulsory education. In this caricature, both demons (above) and kappa (center) are learning vocabulary concerning their daily life. The former are taught by Shōki the demon queller, dressed in western-style uniform. Some goblins try to enter the school (below), but are blown away by the Wind God.

Renjishi (連獅子), or "Dance of a Pair of Lions", by Kyōsai. Renjishi is a famous dance in the Kabuki theatre.

Eating kaki acrobatically (1880)

Kawanabe Kyōsai, the “Demon of Painting”, Invented Manga in 1874 ...

https://www.artsy.net/.../artsy-editorial-japanese-demon-painting-invented-manga-187...

Nov 22, 2018 - The Japanese “Demon of Painting” Who Invented Manga in 1874. ... “Shōjō” also implied that Kyōsai,19th-century Japan’s most notorious artist, only came alive when he was smashed. ... Many scholars of manga, the most popular form of Japanese comics, have credited Kyōsai with ...