Kawanabe Kyōsui
{{Short description|Japanese painter}}
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| name = Kawanabe Kyōsui
| birth_date = January 4, 1868
| death_date = May 7, 1935
| known_for = Ukiyoe, Nihonga
| birth_place = Edo, Japan
}}
Kawanabe Kyōsui (河鍋 暁翠, January 4, 1868 – May 7, 1935) was a Meiji era painter for nihonga and ukiyoe.
Early Training
Kyōsui learned painting with her father Kawanabe Kyōsai.{{Cite web |title=Collections Online {{!}} British Museum |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG63863 |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.britishmuseum.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/04/17/arts/legacy-genius-kyosai-kyosui/|title=Legacy of genius: Kyosai and Kyosui|last=Gordenker|first=Alice|date=2018-04-17|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-08}} Kyōsai encouraged his students to copy his work carefully to become proficient. As one of his students, Kyōsui became adept at this, producing works that to this day are indistinguishable from her father's, created in his name.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMCHpmDXUeIC&q=kawanabe+kyosui&pg=PA113|title=Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting|last1=Jordan|first1=Brenda G.|last2=Weston|first2=Victoria Louise|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2003|isbn=0824826086|pages=113}}
Paintings
File:Rats_hasagawa.jpg fable The Mice in Council illustrated by Kyōsui in 1894]]
Kyōsui specialized in genres such as devotional Buddhist paintings, bijin-ga images and scenes from noh and kyōgen theater.
She was accepted into the second Naikoku Kaiga Kyoshinkai (内国共進会, National Painting Competition) at age 17.{{Cite web|url=http://kyosai-museum.jp/hp/kawanabekyosui.html|title=公益財団法人 河鍋暁斎記念美術館|website=kyosai-museum.jp|access-date=2019-03-08|archive-date=2016-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401213618/http://kyosai-museum.jp/hp/kawanabekyosui.html|url-status=dead}}
She also depicted room interiors.{{Cite web |title=Treasures of the Library |url=https://www.sainsbury-institute.org/info/issue-12-summer-2015-treasures-of-the-library |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=SISJAC |language=en-GB}}
A large collection of Kyōsui's work is housed in the Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial MuseumJa in Warabi in Saitama. Her work can also be found in the British Museum collection.{{Cite web|title=painting; hanging scroll; storage box {{!}} British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2001-0208-0-1|access-date=2020-11-04|website=The British Museum|language=en}}
University professorship
In 1902, the year after it opened, Kyōsui became the first female professor at the arts institution, Private Women's School of Fine Arts{{Cite web|url=https://mag.japaaan.com/archives/26233|title=父親譲りの画力！河鍋暁斎の娘「河鍋暁翠」もまた浮世絵師としての才能に満ちていた : Japaaan|website=Japaaan - 日本文化と今をつなぐウェブマガジン|language=ja|access-date=2019-03-08}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.joshibi.ac.jp/english|title=English {{!}} 女子美術大学・女子美術大学短期大学部|website=www.joshibi.ac.jp|access-date=2019-03-08}} which later became Joshibi University of Art and Design.
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Category:20th-century Japanese painters