大英博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (大英博物館Instagram)「Japanese party animals by a Japanese party animal 🐰🎉 These playful creatures are the work of Kawanabe Kyōsai, a Japanese artist famed for his witty and irreverent style. Kyōsai loved creating ‘sekiga’ artworks – impromptu pictures produced at riotous calligraphy parties called ‘shogakai’. One sake-drenched ‘shogakai’ led to Kyosai being arrested for creating art which insulted the authorities. The exact nature of the charge remains a mystery – he was too drunk to remember the image in question 🍻 Though seemingly innocuous, Kyosai’s works illustrate the tensions Japan was experiencing as two centuries of isolation were shattered by arrival of foreigners bringing cannons and treaties along with new ideas and customs like the top hat. Witty and imaginative, the party animals that populate Kyosai’s creations were also a way to satirise these changes while retaining an air of plausible deniability. These comical creatures will be on show alongside over 60 other pieces in a new display celebrating summer festivals ☀🎊 🏛 You can see Japanese Summer festivals in Rooms 92–94, The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries, until November 2023. 🔎 Kawanabe Kyosai (1831–1889), ‘Animals travestying a festival procession’. Ink and colour on paper, Japan, 1879. #BritishMuseum #JapaneseArt #Kyosai #Festival」4月7日 19時00分