Darkness Is But a Step Away (Issun saki wa yami) and Dig a Pitfall, Make Two Holes (Hito o inoraba ana futatsu), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyōsai (Kyōsai hyakuzu) 「一寸さきハやみ　人をいのらば穴二つ」 『狂斎百図』

Object Details

• Artist

  Kawanabe Kyosai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection

• Type

  Print

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• Name

  Kawanabe, Kyosai

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints