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Sei Shonagon, from the series Ancient Patterns (Kodai moyo) Wall Art
ART BY: Kobayashi Kiyochika
Sei Shonagon, from the series Ancient Patterns (Kodai moyo) Wall Art
ART BY: Kobayashi Kiyochika
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Sei Shonagon, from the series Ancient Patterns (Kodai moyo) is a color woodblock print, oban triptych by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847–1915), dated Meiji period (1896–1. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 1577 px (1.5 MB). You will find it among Prints and Japanese (culture or style), in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 165 works by Kobayashi Kiyochika, a Japanese artist.
Kobayashi Kiyochika was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his colour woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. His work documents the rapid modernization and Westernization Japan underwent during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and employs a sense of light and shade called kōsen-ga inspired by Western art techniques.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Kobayashi Kiyochika →
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