Kobayashi Kiyochika

Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) is described as being "the last important ukiyo-e master and the first noteworthy print artist of modern Japan... [or, perhaps] an anachronistic survival from an earlier age, a minor hero whose best efforts to adapt ukiyo-e to the new world of Meiji Japan were not quite enough" (Richard Lane). The western influence of his prints was caused by his father, who was a government official and involved in a lot of westernization. However, before Kiyochika started merging the old-style printing into more modern, western scenes, he was a master of the ukiyo-e printing style. He created a lot of prints of the Sino-Japanese war, and collaborated with the captionist Honekawa Dojin in a propaganda project called Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō ("Long live Japan: 100 victories, 100 laughs"). 

Kobayashi Kiyochika's woodblock prints:

The Imperial Japanese Navy battles the Chinese in the Yellow Sea