Hanga
− by Kobayashi Kiyochika — Japanese Woodblock print

by Kobayashi Kiyochika

Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
Waseda University

Description

No title is recorded for this Kiyochika woodblock print. Within his catalogued output, prints in this numerical range often correspond to either his late meisho-e views or to figure-based compositions from the 1880s, a period when his focus shifted somewhat from pure landscape atmospherics toward subjects more directly engaged with Meiji-era social change. His technical approach remained consistent: oban-format compositions built around the interplay of light and dark, with bokashi gradations establishing mood before more detailed key-block imagery articulated figures and architectural elements. The washi ground, selected for its absorbency and tooth, was essential to the soft edges that distinguish his atmospheric passages from the sharper graphic language of contemporaries like Hiroshige III.

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− was created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林清親).