Collection: Kobayashi Kiyochika

Kobayashi Kiyochika (10 September 1847 – 28 November 1915) 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. His work first found an audience in the 1870s with prints of red-brick buildings and trains that had proliferated after the Meiji Restoration; his prints of the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 were also popular. Woodblock printing fell out of favour during this period, and many collectors consider Kobayashi's work the last significant example of ukiyo-e.

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Shibata Zeshin, and Shimooka Renjō taught him. His best-known works include View of Takanawa Ushimachi under a Shrouded Moon.

Within his body of work, the Fukei Ga current is dominant.