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Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika
Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika

Vintage Original Woodblock Print: Rainy Day at Kudan by Kobayashi Kiyochika

$ 184.28

  • Artist: Kobayashi Kiyochika
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
  • Framing: Matted & Framed
  • Image Orientation: Portrait
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
  • Production Technique: Woodcut Printing
  • Seller Notes: “excellent condition with strong color, no fading and no foxing”
  • Signed: No
  • Style: ukiyo-e
  • Subject: Kuban lighthouse in rain
  • Theme: Art
  • Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
  • Type: Print

Description

In the 1920s, the publisher Hasegawa commissioned a small group of artists to create woodblock prints for a series entitled “Hasegawa’s Night Scenes“, of which there were a total of 21 prints by 6 artists. This piece is the one contribution to the poetic series by Kobayashi Kiyochika and it was created near the end of his life. Presented under glass and double matting in a gilt frame carved to resemble bamboo. FRAMED SIZE: 11" X 14" PRINT SIZE: chuban, 7" x 9 3/4" This chuban-sized woodblock printing of "A Rainy Day at Kudan" by Kobayashi Kiyochika is on heavy paper and in excellent condition with strong color, no fading and no foxing. It exhibits Kobayashi's skillful "bokashi" shading, and very fine details. About the Artist Kobayashi Kiyochika 1847 – 1915) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Meiji period. Kiyochika is best known for his prints of scenes around Tokyo which reflect the transformations of modernity. He has been described as "the last important ukiyo-e master and the first noteworthy print artist of modern Japan." The son of a government official, Kiyochika was heavily influenced by Western art, which he studied under Charles Wirgman. He also based much 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.