Kobayashi Kiyochika, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kobayashi Kiyochika

Japanese artist

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1847

Place of Birth: Honjo, Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 28-Nov-1915

Profession: mangaka, painter, printmaker

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kobayashi Kiyochika (?? ??, 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 kosen-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.