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- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Waseda University
- Image courtesy of
- Waseda University
Description
This untitled Kiyochika print is a woodblock work from the Meiji period whose specific subject has not been formally recorded. Kiyochika's output across his career encompassed Tokyo meisho-e (famous-place views), bijin-ga (figure studies), musha-e (warrior prints), and Sino-Japanese War reportage prints — each genre handled with his signature interest in light's behavior across surfaces, whether wood, water, or textile. In prints where architecture or landscape anchors the composition, his distinctive night-view treatment often places luminous windows, lanterns, or reflected moonlight against deep indigo or near-black skies, using the bokashi wiping technique to graduate from darkness to light across the block. This print likely demonstrates one such tonal contrast, the identifying mark of his mature style.
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− was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).



