Kawabata Ryūshi (川端 龍子, June 6, 1885 – April 10, 1966) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style, active during the Taishō and Shōwa eras.

Initially interested in literature, he studied under the poet Kawabata Hoja, who introduced him to the Hototogisu artistic circle.

He left Inten in 1928 in protest of its increasing rigid rules, and established his own Nihonga art circle, the Seiryūsha in 1928.

After World War II, together with Yokoyama Taikan and Kawai Gyokudō, he came to be regarded as one of the "Three Big Figures" in the field of Nihonga painting.

In 1950, after the death of his wife and son, he went on a pilgrimage of the 88 holy places in Shikoku, taking a total of six years to make the circuit, and sketching extensively along the way.