Sunday, April 14, 2024

Kobayashi Kiyochika
(1847 - 1915)
 
Kobayashi Kiyochika was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his colour woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. His work documents the rapid modernization and Westernization Japan 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Kiyochika


Rising Sun from Yorozubashi Bridge
C; 1880
Woodblock print
20.1 x 31.7 cm
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
https://collections.lacma.org/node/238225

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