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KOBAYASHI KIYOCHIKA ().
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Japanese artist (1847–1915)
Kobayashi Kiyochika | |
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Kobayashi circa 1873 | |
| Born | Kobayashi Katsunosuke (1847-09-10)10 September 1847 Edo, Japan |
| Died | 28 November 1915(1915-11-28) (aged 68) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Movement | ukiyo-e |
Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林 清親, 10 September 1847 – 28 November 1915) 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[1], and many coll