Shin Hanga | Pre-WWII Japanese Prints
By the beginning of the 20th century the social fabric of Japan was radically altered and ukiyo-e was falling fast into oblivion. Surprisingly, it was under the stimulus of the Western art world that the spirit of ukiyo-e was reborn through the Shin Hanga or “new print” movement. The discovery of the powerful impact of ukiyo-e print masters on the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists inspired a new generation of Japanese print artists who revived distinctly Japanese subject matter through modern eyes. International excitement for ukiyo-e paved the way for these artists to create woodblock prints with the same dignity, perfection and genius as the masters of the Edo period. As artists such as Goyo, Kotondo and Shinsui revived bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and Hasui and Yoshida reinterpreted the landscape of Japan, Shin Hanga reasserted the principal genres of ukiyo-e with a renewed vigor. Browse our collection of Shin Hanga and other pre-war Japanese woodblock prints today.
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Kogyo
Ikkaku Sennin: The horned hermit, Ikkaku Sennin, guards the front of his cave where he has imprisoned the rain-making dragon kings
JP-210217
Rakusan (Rakuzan)
Tawny Daylily and White-winged Widowbird (Early Summer)
JPR-111996
Rakusan (Rakuzan)
Tea Flowers and Daurian Redstarts (Winter)
JPR-111964
Kogyo
Shokun: Obo, mother of Lady Shokun, seeing the ghosts of the barbarian king Kanyasho and her daughter in a mirror
JP-210205
Kogyo
Yorimasa: The warrior Minamoto no Yorimasa's ghost tells the story of his last battle before disappearing
JP-210180
Kogyo
Kuzu: An old man symbolically serves fish to the Emperor
JP-210200
Kogyo
Kanehira: Warrior Imai no Shiro Kanehira's ghost appears to a traveling priest
JP-210186
Kanpo
Actor Nakamura Ganjiro I as Kamiya Jihei in the play Shinju Ten no Amijima
JP-210773
Kanpo
Actor Nakamura Ganjiro I as Kamiya Jihei in the play Shinju Ten no Amijima
JP-210770
Kanpo
Actor Kataoka Gado IV as Miyuki in the play Asago Nikki
JP-210762
