Le Bestiaire extraordinaire de Kyôsai. Celtique and adventurers of all kinds

and adventurers of all kinds

The renewal of thought changed the understanding of the world

In his early days

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Le Bestiaire extraordinaire de Kyôsai. Celtique and adventurers of all kindsKawanabe Kysai (1831 1889) was a virtuoso artist, considered in his time as Hokusai's successor, who produced an exceptional and prolific body of work in a short period of time: more than 1,000 prints, nearly 150 illustrated books and albums, more than 7,000 pages of a journal in which he sketched his day to day life, and more than 50,000 paintings and drawings. Among his exuberantly fanciful works, animals occupy a prominent place. Larger than life,