The son of a government official, Kiyochika was heavily influenced by Western art, which he studied under Charles Wirgman; he also based a lot of his work on Western etchings, lithographs, and photographs which became widely available in Japan in the Meiji period.
The son of a government official was heavily influenced by Western art. Kiyochika was a government official. He studied under Charles Wirgman Western art. He also based a lot of his work on Western etchings. He also based a lot of his work on lithographs. He also based a lot of his work on photographs. These photographs became widely available in Japan in the Meiji period.