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Kobayashi Kiyochika
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Japanese Forces Driving Away Taiwanese Bandits near Xinzhu (Taiwan Shinchiku fukin dozoku sojo no zu)
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Great Victory of Our Forces at the Battle of the Yellow Sea--First Illustration (Kokai ni okeru wagagun no daisho dai ichi zu)
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Great Victory of Our Forces at the Battle of the Yellow Sea--Third Illustration (Kokai ni okeru wagagun no daisho dai san zu)
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Distant View of Mount Fuji from the Mountains of Hakone (Hakone sanchu yori Fugaku chobo)
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Outbreak of Fire Seen from Hisamatsu-cho (Hisamatsu-cho kara miru shukka)
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Bombarding the Enemy Camp as Our Second Army Lands at Jinzhoucheng (Waga dainigun Kinshu tekiei hogeki no zu)
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Army General Oyama Iwao Commander of the Second Army from the series Mirror of Army and Navy Heroes (Rikkai gunjin komyo kagami)
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Snow at Hakone Shrine (Hakone jinja yuki)
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Triumphal Return with Captured Goods (Gaisen shuho mono otomo) and Triumphal Return Bringing Captured Ships (Gaisen shuhosen o tomo ni tsureru) from the series Comical Art Exhibit of the Sino-Japanese War (Nissei senso shoraku gakai)
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Formal Procession of a Daimyo on New Years Day (Shogatsu ganjitsu daimyo kishiki gyoretsu zu)
Kiyochika Kobayashi (Kiyochika Kobayashi, September 10, 1847
Born as a child of the Bakushin at the Edo Honjo. The youngest of nine siblings, his childhood name is Katsunosuke. In 1862 (2nd year of Bunkyu), his father died at the age of 15, so Katsunosuke took the genpuku, named Kiyochika, and succeeded the family.
In 1865 (2nd year of Genji, 1st year of Keio), he accompanied Tokugawa Iemochi Raku (second Choshu expedition) and stayed in Osaka as it was. Participated in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in January 1868 (Keio 4).
After the disappearance of the shogunate, he went down to Shizuoka following Yoshinobu Tokugawa and others. From December 1870 (Meiji 3) to April 1971 (4th year of the same year), Kiyochika was from the descendants of his cohabitants in Washizu Village (currently Washizu, Kosai City), where he became an early bird. There is a testimony that "I was drawing pictures in my free time."
Returned to Tokyo in 1874 (Meiji 7) to earn a living.
After returning to Tokyo, he aspired to be a painter, and is said to have had a seat painting session with Kawanabe Kyosai and Shibata Zeshin (improvising calligraphic works in front of his supporters). There is an anecdote that Charles Wirgman learned Western painting, but in the 2010s, it was taken negatively, and there are several theories that there was no clear teacher.