# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kobayashi-kiyochika
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:55:45.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kobayashi-kiyochika"
name: "Kobayashi Kiyochika"
slug: "kobayashi-kiyochika"
description: "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. 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."
tagline: "Japanese artist (1847-1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kobayashi_Kiyochika_Photograph_c1873.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1847-09-10"
deathDate: "1915-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.81573733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "小林清親"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kobayashi Kiyochika"
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    title: "کوبایاشی کیوچیکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kobayashi Kiyochika"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Kiyochika"
    title: "Kobayashi Kiyochika"
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    title: "小林清親"
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    title: "Kobayashi Kiyochika"
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    title: "Кобаяси Киётика"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyochika_Kobayashi"
    title: "Kiyochika Kobayashi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump