Kuroda Seiki
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Viscount Kuroda Kiyoteru or Seiki was a Japanese painter and teacher, noted for bringing Western art theory and practice to a wide Japanese audience.
Kuroda Seiki, Withered Field (Grez), c.1891, Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyo
Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1891
Maiko, 1893
Eruption, 1914, one of six paintings in the series "Sakurajima Erupting"
Meiji era
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The Meiji era was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era dominated the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from b
Kuroda Seiki
…named a viscount. Because of his position, the elder Kuroda was exposed to many of the modernizing trends and ideas coming into Japan during the early Meiji era; as his heir, young Kiyoteru also learned from them and took his lessons to heart. In his early teens, Kuroda began to learn the English language in…
Emperor Meiji (1872)
The fifteen-year-old Meiji Emperor, moving from Kyoto to Tokyo at the end of 1868, after the fall of Edo
Emperor Meiji c. 1888
Ceremony for the Promulgation of the Constitution by Wada Eisaku, showing the Emperor presenting the Constitution to Prime Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka at a ceremony in the Imperial Palace on 11 February 1889 (Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery)