Japanese artist (1831–1889)
Kawanabe Kyōsai was a Japanese painter and caricaturist. In the words of art historian Timothy Clark, "an individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional Japanese painting".
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![Long Legs [left of a pair of Long Legs and Long Arms]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Long_Legs_(left_of_a_pair_of_Long_Legs_and_Long_Arms)_-_2013.29.1098.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/500px-Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Long_Legs_(left_of_a_pair_of_Long_Legs_and_Long_Arms)_-_2013.29.1098.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg)
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![Chinese-style Landscape with Man Fishing from a Boat by Moonlight [right of a triptych]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Chinese-style_Landscape_with_Man_Fishing_from_a_Boat_by_Moonlight_(right_of_a_triptych)_-_81.2.20.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/500px-Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Chinese-style_Landscape_with_Man_Fishing_from_a_Boat_by_Moonlight_(right_of_a_triptych)_-_81.2.20.2_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg)
![Jurōjin [center of a triptych]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Jurōjin_(center_of_a_triptych)_-_81.2.20.3_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/500px-Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Jurōjin_(center_of_a_triptych)_-_81.2.20.3_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg)
![Landscape with River in Mountainous Country [left of a triptych]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Landscape_with_River_in_Mountainous_Country_(left_of_a_triptych)_-_81.2.20.1_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/500px-Kawanabe_Kyōsai_-_Landscape_with_River_in_Mountainous_Country_(left_of_a_triptych)_-_81.2.20.1_-_Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg)
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