Kobayashi Kiyochika
Artworks: 120
Last ukiyo-e master of Meiji modernization
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.
Artworks by this artist (120 total)
- The Island Enoshima 1896
- Satta Pass on the Tōkaidō 1896
- Rain At Sanmaibashi In Hakone 1880 - 1882
- Fireworks At Ikenohata 1881
- Cats and Canvas circa 1879-1881
- Mount Fuji From Satta, Sketched At 9 A.M. In Mid-January, 1881 1881
- The Hakone Shrine In The Snow 1880 - 1882
- Tiger Flag in a Grove, from the Series ‘Magic Lantern of Society; One Hun
- Our Torpedo Hitting a Russian Warship at the Great Naval Battle of Port Arthur 1904
- Hurrah for the Great Empire of Japan; The First Army Captures Fenghuangcheng 1894
- The Wife’s Welcome, from the Series ‘Long Live Japan! One Hundred Selections, One Hundred Laughs’ 1895
- Futamigaura, the Wedded Rocks 1896
- Lady Sei Shōnagon 1897
- Sumida River 1897
- Our Army Attacks the Chinese Encampment at Pyeongyang 1894
- The Naval Battle of Pungdo in Korea 1894
- Inner Valley at Tsukigase 1897
- Persimmons and White-Eyes 1880
- Bombarding the Enemy Camp as Our Second Army Lands at Jinzhou Fortress 1894
- Sweet Sake House at the Foot of Mt. Hakone, 6;00 p.m. on a Spring Day 1881