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Wisteria at Kameido — 亀井戸藤
by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)
Artist: | Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) — 小林清親 | |
Title: | Wisteria at Kameido — 亀井戸藤 | |
Series: | Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo — 東京名所図絵 | |
Date 1st edition?: | 1877 | |
Publisher 1st edition?: | Fukuda Kumajiro (Gusokuya) — 福田 熊次郎 (具足屋) | |
Publisher (this edition)?: | Fukuda Kumajiro (Gusokuya) — 福田 熊次郎 (具足屋) | |
Medium (1st edition): | Woodblock | |
Medium (this edition): | Woodblock | |
Format (1st edition): | Oban | |
Format (this edition): | Oban | |
DB artwork code: | 28624 | |
Notes (1st edition)?: | Kiyochika Kobayashi (1847-1915) Wisteria at Kameido 作者:小林清親(弘化4~大正4) 画題:亀井戸藤 版元:福田熊次郎 年代等:明治1□年 体裁:大判錦絵〔22.8×34.2cm〕 署名:清親筆 | |
Notes (this edition)?: | The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Often written by non-experts, there may be inaccuracies: Kobayashi KIYOCHIKA (1847-1915) | |
Artist Bio: | Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林 清親, September 10, 1847 – November 28, 1915) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Meiji period.
The son of a government official, Kiyochika was heavily influenced by Western art, which he studied under Charles Wirgman. He also based a lot of his work on Western etchings, lithographs, and photographs which became widely available in Japan in the Meiji period. Kiyochika also studied Japanese art under the great artists Kawanabe Kyōsai and Shibata Zeshin. His woodblock prints stand apart from those of the earlier Edo period, incorporating not only Western styles but also Western subjects, as he depicted the introduction of such things as horse-drawn carriages, clock towers, and railroads to Tokyo. These show considerable influence from the landscapes of Hokusai and the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, but the Western influence is also unquestionable; these are much darker images on the whole, and share many features with Western lithographs and etchings of the time. These were produced primarily from 1876 to 1881; Kiyochika would continue to publish ukiyo-e prints for the rest of his life, but also worked extensively in illustrations and sketches for newspapers, magazines, and books. He also produced a number of prints depicting scenes from the Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War, collaborating with caption writer Koppi Dojin, penname of Nishimori Takeki (1861-1913), to contribute a number of illustrations to the propaganda series Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō ('Long live Japan: 100 victories, 100 laughs'). (from Wiki) |