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The place in the print is the Mound of Umewaka located in the Mokuboji Temple at the riverside of Sumida. It is famous for the legend of Umewakamaru who was born in the Heian era and died of disease at this place, after a harsh life. The temple was temporalily abandoned in the Meiji era, and for a short time before it was rebuilt, it had been called the Umewaka Shrine. Kiyochika depicted it during this time. The minuscule lines obliquely drawn show the strength of rains. The woman holding an umbrella looks so hard to keep walking. Such new styled landscape, strengthening the expression of lights, is called Kosenga, and was used by Kiyochika and his pupil, Inoue yasuji. But they couldn't continue this style for a long time, and later Kiyochika began to depict the war painting forcused on the Sino-Japanese War, from his point of view as a previous warrior who was tossed by a tumultuous time.
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Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 – 1915) was a woodblock print artist.
His childhood name was Katsunosuke. He studied oil paintings and Japanese paintings under British painter, Charles Wirgman and Kawanabe Gyousai and Shibata Zeshin respectively.
Kiyochika started his career as an ukiyo-e artist. Light and shadow are beautifully depicted in his artworks. Gorgeous sunsets, brilliant sunrises, soft lights illuminated along the river depicted in his works deeply touch the viewer’s heart. He gained his fame when he created a new genre of western style woodblock paints called “Kousen-ga” which employs new techniques to express light and shade.
He is also well known for sarcastic multi-color printed cartoon series (Nishiki-e Manga) called “Kiyochika Ponchi”.
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