Kobayashi Kiyochika
Kobayashi Kiyochika was a Japanese ukiyoe artist, best known for his ukiyoe colour woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. His work documents the rapid modernization and Westernization Japanese underwent during the Meiji period and employs a sense of light and shade called ksenga160 inspired by Western art techniques. His work first found an audience in the 1870s with prints of redbrick buildings and trains that had proliferated after the Meiji Restoration his prints of the First SinoJapanese War of 189495 were also popular. Woodblock printing fell out of favour during this period, and many collectors consider Kobayashis work the last significant example of ukiyoe.
Kiyochika was born Kobayashi Katsunosuke onSeptember 1847 in Kurayashiki160 neighbourhood of Honjo160 in Edo . His father was Kobayashi Moh , who worked as a minor official in charge of unloading rice collected as taxes. His mother Chikako was the daughter of another such official, Matsui Yasunosuke . The 1855 Edo earthquake destroyed the family home but left the family unharmed.
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