Calligraphy and Painting Party

An art-making party becomes a picture about collaboration itself, with multiple hands leaving visible signatures inside the scene.

What to notice

Follow the enormous brush, folding screens, and scrolls; each element points to a different participant and a different act of making.

Discover

Kyōsai painted the figures and structural outlines, while ten literati artists completed the calligraphy and paintings shown within the composition. The result documents a social performance of artistic collaboration.