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Kobayashi Kiyochika created a print art called Kosenga in which he elaborately expressed the change made by light, shadow and air. This artwork created in the early Meiji era depicts people collecting sea weed at Oomori, Tokyo. He expressed the poetic sunlight at the dawn by carefully repeating color printing and gradation one after the other, in this way he caught the light in the most sophisticated method that had never been seen in the ukiyoe block art. Taking over the tradition of the Edo famous landscape built by Hokusai and Hiroshige, Kiyochika inspired his originality into Edo in the period of transition, by his unique technique.
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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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