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Kobayashi Kiyochika is a Japanese ukiyo-e artist known for his polychrome woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. His work documents Japan as it was rapidly modernized and westernized during the Meiji period (1868-1912), and employs a sense of light and shade known as kōsen-ga inspired by Western artistic techniques. The woodcut print we show today is a great example of that influence. His work first gained attention in the 1870s with motifs of red brick buildings and trains that proliferated after the Meiji Restoration; his 1894 and 1895 Sino-Japanese War prints were also popular . Woodblock printing fell out of favor during this period, and many collectors consider Kobayashi’s work to be the last major milestone in Ukiyo-e.
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30.7 x 43.5 cm
Ukiyo-e
private collection
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