Date of birth

1847-09-10

Birth place

Edo (current Tokyo)

Date of death

1915/11/28

Death place

Tokyo

Gender

male

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 Japanese underwent during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and employs a sense of light and shade called kōsen-ga 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

APJ ID

A1381

VIAF ID

311169311

AKL ID

802074

NDL ID

00033162

Wikidata ID

Q3121142