Kobayashi Kiyochika: Colour Plates

by Maria Peitcheva

Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847 - 1915) 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 kosen-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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1537088491
• ISBN13: 9781537088495
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"