Kobayashi Kiyochika
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
- The Moon At Shinagawa 1884
- Koganei, Cherry Blossoms 1896
- Breakwater Stakes and Ryōgoku Bridge 1840
- Tsukuba Mountain Seen from Sakura River at Hitachi 1897
- The Use of Electricity during the Attack on Pyeongyang 1894
- Our Fleet of Warships Bombarding Dalian Bay 1894
- View at dusk, Hashiba, Tokyo 1880
- Thunder and Lightning at Oumaya Bridge circa 1879
- The Yumoto Sulfur Spring, Nikkō 1896
- The Bridge Tsūtenkyō, Kyoto 1896
- Hurrah for the Great Empire of Japan; The Second Army Lands on the Jinzhou Peninsula 1894
- Distant View of Ryōgoku from Motoyanagi Bridge circa 1879
- Monkey Bridge 1896
- Hurrah for the Great Empire of Japan; Fierce Battle of Captain Matsuzaki at Anseong Crossing 1894
- Cats and Canvas circa 1879-1881
- Taira no Tadamori Captures the Priest of Midō 1877
- Our Torpedo Hitting a Russian Warship at the Great Naval Battle of Port Arthur 1904
- Ground Attack at Weihaiwei 1895
- The Conflagration Seen From The Hisamatsu District 1877 - 1882
- Satta Pass on the Tōkaidō 1896