Top Quality Art - Shinbashi Station is a painting by Kobayashi Kiyochika which was uploaded on August 17th, 2018.
Title
Top Quality Art - Shinbashi Station
Artist
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Medium
Painting - Woodprint
Description
【KOBAYASHI KIYOCHIKA】
「Shinbashi Station」
（Top Quality Image Edition）
「新橋ステンション」 （1881）【最高画質版】
【Kobayashi Kiyochika】
(小林 清親, 10 September 1847 – 28 November 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 kōsen-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 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.
Richard Lane wrote that Kiyochika could represent "either the last important ukiyo-e master, or the first noteworthy print artist of modern Japan", but that "it is probably most accurate to regard him as an anachronistic survival from an earlier age, a minor hero whose best efforts to adapt ukiyo-e to the new world of Meiji Japan were not quite enough". He considered Kiyochika's best works to fall short of Hiroshige's greatest, but to be on par with the best of Kuniyoshi and Kunisada.
【小林 清親】（KOBAYASHI KIYOCHIKA / こばやし きよちか）
弘化4年8月1日〈1847年9月10日〉 - 大正4年〈1915年〉11月28日）
明治時代の版画家、浮世絵師。月岡芳年、豊原国周と共に明治浮世絵界の三傑の一人に数えられ、しばしば「最後の浮世絵師」、「明治の広重」と評された。
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August 17th, 2018
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