

About the Artist
Kobayashi Kiyochika was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his ukiyo-e colour woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. His work documents the rapid modernization and Westernization Japanese underwent during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and employs a sense of light and shade called kōsen-ga [ja] inspired by Western art techniques. His work first found an audience in the 1870s with prints of red-brick buildings and trains that had proliferated after the Meiji Restoration; his prints of the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 were also popular. Woodblock printing fell out of favour during this period, and many collectors consider Kobayashi's work the last significant example of ukiyo-e.
More Artwork by Kobayashi Kiyochika (View all 122 Artworks)

Lady Sei Shōnagon (1897)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

View of Houses of Entertainment in Imado at Dawn (1879)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

Thunder and Lightning at Oumaya Bridge (circa 1879)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

Imperial Visit to a Field Hospital (1895)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)
More Artwork by Kobayashi Kiyochika (View all 122 Artworks)

Lady Sei Shōnagon (1897)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

View of Houses of Entertainment in Imado at Dawn (1879)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

Thunder and Lightning at Oumaya Bridge (circa 1879)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

Imperial Visit to a Field Hospital (1895)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)
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