Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)
Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)

Yanagihara yau (Night rain, Yanagihara), 1881 Senbonkui Ryogokubashi (Ryogoku Bridge from Senbonkui), 1880 Shiba Zojoji Nitchu (Midday, Shiba Zojoji Temple), 1880 Sensoji toshinoichi (Year-end market, Sensoji Temple), n.d. Tokyo Koume hikifune yazu/Nightly view of hiki-fune [towboats] at Ko-oome in To-kei. [Tokyo], [1876.8]

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Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)
Yanagihara yau (Night rain, Yanagihara), 1881
Senbonkui Ryogokubashi (Ryogoku Bridge from Senbonkui), 1880
Shiba Zojoji Nitchu (Midday, Shiba Zojoji Temple), 1880
Sensoji toshinoichi (Year-end market, Sensoji Temple), n.d.
Tokyo Koume hikifune yazu/Nightly view of hiki-fune [towboats] at Ko-oome in To-kei. [Tokyo], [1876.8]
Five prints, titled and dated as above, the first, second and fourth signed Kobayashi Kiyochika, the third Kobayashi Kiyochika hitsu and the last Kobayashi Kiyochika ga, published by Fukuda Kumajiro except the last, published by Matsuki Heikichi--very good impressions, good color, centerfolds first and second, soiled, stained, worming
oban yoko-e: 23.8 x 35.3cm., first; 24 xx 36cm., second; 23.5 x 35.1cm., third; 24 x 36.3cm., fourth; 25.5 x 38.5cm., last (5)

Lot Essay

According to Henry Smith, the last print, To-kei, block-dated 1876.8, was re-carved and re-issued around 1920 by its original publisher, Matsuki Heikichi, at the request of Murakami Yutaka, an avid collector of work by Kiyochika. The original version has several features that do not appear in the later printing. A barely discernible well to the left of the woman on the far shore has been removed in the newer version and a small "W" in "View" at the bottom is corrected in size. See Henry D. Smith II, Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan, exh. cat. [Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988], p. 25. For an example of the original version, see pl. 12).

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