Kyōsai’s Drawings for Pleasure (Kyōsai rakuga) : [volume 2]
Kyōsai's Drawings for Pleasure, volume 2, is a Japanese illustrated sketchbook by Kawanabe Gyōsai, published in Tokyo in 1881 by Morita Tetsugorō and Takeda Denuemon for a general readership. Its pages show animals and natural subjects in loose ink-and-colour brushwork, with light washes of red, green and grey set against open paper, and the spare, quick outlines suit designers seeking expressive animal forms and simple compositional balance.
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