Fireflies at Ochanomizu - Kobayashi Kiyochika Samsung Case

Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915) was a visionary ukiyo-e artist who chronicled Meiji Japan’s dizzying leap into modernity. His woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations captured steam trains, red-brick buildings, and war-torn landscapes through Western-influenced chiaroscuro and kōsen-ga techniques. From Tokyo’s rain-slicked bridges to Russo-Japanese War propaganda, Kiyochika fused Eastern tradition with industrial transformation. Though ukiyo-e waned, he painted Japan’s metamorphosis with subtle satire, somber palettes, and radiant nightscapes. Often hailed as the last master of ukiyo-e or the first modern Japanese printmaker, Kiyochika’s work remains a rare lens on Westernization, modernization, and cultural upheaval during Japan’s defining 19th-century transition.

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