ANTIQUE JAPAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT “RAINY NIGHT AT KUDAN” by KOBAYASHI KIYOCHIKA. 10 September 1847 – 28 November 1915 was a Japanese ukiyo-e. Artist, best known for his color woodblock prints. His work documents the rapid modernization and Westernization Japan underwent during the Meiji Period. 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 favor during this period. Consider Kobayashi’s work the last significant example of ukiyo-e. Get images that make Supersized seem small. Showcase your items with Auctiva’s.