Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 825,000+ artworks, 75,000+ artists, and 750+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Squirrels Gathering Chestnuts by Kawanabe Kyôsai — VisualArtsDB

Home
Paintings
Squirrels Gathering Chestnuts

Squirrels Gathering Chestnuts

Squirrels Gathering Chestnuts

Kawanabe Kyôsai

1877–1897

Medium: Album leaf; ink and gold on silk
Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (36.2 x 27.3 cm)
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Tags

squirrels

More by Kawanabe Kyôsai

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1882

Battle of Nanba (Nanba senki no uchi)

Battle of Nanba (Nanba senki no uchi)

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1871

Painting and Calligraphy Gathering at the Nakamurarō in Ryōgoku

Painting and Calligraphy Gathering at the Nakamurarō in Ryōgoku

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1866

Gyōsai's Discourses on Painting (Gyōsai gadan), vol. 3

Gyōsai's Discourses on Painting (Gyōsai gadan), vol. 3

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1887

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1882

Crow Flying in the Snow

Crow Flying in the Snow

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1877

Monkey Hanging from Grapevines

Monkey Hanging from Grapevines

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1877

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1882

Two Birds on a Branch

Two Birds on a Branch

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1877

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Collection of Humorous Leftovers (Kokkei zansai bukuro 滑稽残菜嚢), vol.

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1882

Owl Mocked by Small Birds

Owl Mocked by Small Birds

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1877

May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu)"

May: Shoki the Demon Queller Riding on a Tiger, Subjugating Goblins, from the series "Of the Twelve Months: the Fifth (Junikagetsu no uchi: gogatsu)"

Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1887