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  • Minamoto Yoshitsune Leaping from Boat to Boat, triptych of color woodblock prints by Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1882; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 35.1 × 70.8 cm.
    Kobayashi Kiyochika

    …Western techniques, which he named kōsen-ga, or “pictures of sunbeams.” Chiefly landscapes of Tokyo, they are notable for their subtle interplay of lights and shadows. After about 1882 he stopped Western painting as he came under the influence of Japanese nationalistic currents and produced educational cartoons and prints based on…

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    …Western techniques, which he named kōsen-ga, or “pictures of sunbeams.” Chiefly landscapes of Tokyo, they are notable for their subtle interplay of lights and shadows. After about 1882 he stopped Western painting as he came under the influence of Japanese nationalistic currents and produced educational cartoons and prints based on…

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