Woodblock prints of the First Sino-Japanese War, made in 1894 CE by the Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika, who employed a sense of light and shade called kōsen-ga inspired by Western art techniques [2669×1313]
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Woodblock prints of the First Sino-Japanese War, made in 1894 CE by the Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika, who employed a sense of light and shade called kōsen-ga inspired by Western art techniques [2669×1313]
by Fuckoff555
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Kiyochika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Kiyochika)
Seriously, how the F***HECK*** do you create a soft falloff like the first one as a woodblock print?
Kiyochika’s “light-ray pictures” (光線画 kōsen-ga) are fantastic, and also included non-war subjects too, a famous example being an early steam train titled “[Hazy Moon at Ushimachi](https://ukiyo-e.org/image/famsf/1008200916190001).” For the war prints, “[Our Elite Forces Capturing the Pescadores Islands in Taiwan](https://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc29824)” is also striking in how he renders the violence through shadows reflected in the water
Ehh fine I will go and play Total War Shogun 2 fall of the Samurai
The way it’s painted reminds me of the work of Guy Billout
Wow. These are great.