Kobayashi Kiyochika

1847-1915

Sunset at Mount Dokan
(Dokanyama yuhigure)

with a dusting of mica, signed at lower right, Kobayashi Kiyochika hitsu, the titile along the bottom margin in kanji, Dokanyama yuhigure, the date and publisher cartouche on left partially trimmed, Meiji juninen (Meiji 12 [1879]), followed by publisher, Fukuda Kumajiro located in Hasegawa-cho, and the artist, Goko Kobayashi Kiyochika, with his address in Yonezawa-cho, ca. 1879

oban yoko-e 9 1/8 by 13 1/4 in., 23.3 by 33.8 cm

References:
Tokichi Sakai, Kiyochika, The Japan Association for the Preservation of Ukiyo-e, translation by N.S. Gankow, 1969, no. 32
Hideki Kikkawa, Kobayashi Kiyochika: Studies in Light and Shadow of the Westernization of Japan, Seigensha Art Publishing, 2015, p. 103, no. 134
Kobayashi Kiyochika: A Retrospective, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 2016, p. 55, no. 72
(inv. no. 10-5017)

price: $700