Cat with a Lantern

Kobayashi Kiyochika was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his color 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 woodcut with a cat which we present today is a good example of such influence. 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 and 1895 were also popular. Woodblock printing fell out of favor during this period, and many collectors consider Kobayashi's work the last significant example of ukiyo-e.

The Cat with a Lantern is one of the postcards that you can find in our 50 Japanese Postcards Set; we couldn't resist selecting it.  :D 

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