Nagano Yasunosuke

yer: Osaka

Doğmuş: 1847

Ölüm: 1915

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Nagano Yasunosuke was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his colour woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. He was born in Osaka in 1847 and died in Tokyo in 1915. 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.