Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1847-1915
Clear Weather after Rain at Zenkoji
(Kawaguchi Zenkoji amebare)
signed Kobayashi Kiyochika hitsu, the title along the bottom margin, Kawaguchi Zenkoji amebare, dated in the upper cartouche on the right, Meiji jusannen - gatsu - ka (Meiji 13 [1880], -month - day), followed by the publisher, Fukuda Kumajiro located in Hasegawa-cho, and the artist, Gako Kobayashi Kiyochika, with his address in Yonezawa-cho, ca. 1880
otanzaku yoko-e 9 5/8 by 14 1/2 in., 24.6 by 36.8 cm
References:
Tokichi Sakai, Kiyochika, The Japan Association for the Preservation of Ukiyo-e, translation by N.S. Gankow, 1969, no. 30
Exhibition of Kobayashi Kiyochika, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1998, p. 47, no. 54
Hideki Kikkawa, Kobayashi Kiyochika: Studies in Light and Shadow of the Westernization of Japan, Seigensha Art Publishing, 2015, p. 59, no. 77
Kobayashi Kiyochika: A Retrospective, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 2016, p. 57, no. 75
(inv. no. 10-4836)
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