Kobayashi Kiyochika
1881
Donated by the Homma family
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) is one of the famous ukiyo-e artists of the Meiji period, alongside Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Toyohara Kunichika, and it’s also said that he learned western painting from the Englishman Charles Wirgman. He became well-known following the release of the scenery painting series “Famous Places of Tokyo”, featuring the spatial balance of light and shadow found in western painting, which was known as “Kōsen-ga” (light beam paintings), and also created bird-and-flower paintings, still lives, historical scenes, and caricatures.