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Kawanabe Kyōsai
kawanabe kyōsai 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. after working for a short time as a boy with utagawa kuniyoshi, he received his artistic training in the kanō school, but soon abandoned the formal traditions for the greater freedom of the popular school. during the political ferment which produced and followed the revolution of 1867, kyōsai attained a reputation as a caricaturist. his very long painting on makimono "the battle of the farts" may be seen as a caric…
