Japanese Woodblock Prints (1800 - 1868)

By the 19th century, Japanese woodblock prints achieved extraordinary popularity. While the shogunate issued a battery of censorship reforms throughout the 1800s, artists ignored and evaded restrictions with images of indulgent beauties and vibrant kabuki actors. As constraints tightened in the 1840s, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) became earthier in prints by Eizan and Eisen, while kabuki actors persevered in the work of Kunisada (aka Toyokuni III). During this period, ukiyo-e artists also added landscapes, warriors, ghosts and scenes of everyday life to their oeuvre. Artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige indulged a national wanderlust through Meisho-e or “famous place pictures,” while Kuniyoshi championed musha-e, a genre of warrior and legendary pictures.

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Artist

  • Hokusai
  • Utamaro
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Rituals & Beliefs

Period

  • 1600 - 1800 (Early Edo)
  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Extra Small (ie. Koban)
  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Large (ie. Triptych)

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Seated Beauty: Egoyomi for 1799

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Seated Beauty: Egoyomi for 1799

JPR-210809

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Fudo Myoo with Seitaka and Kongara

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Fudo Myoo with Seitaka and Kongara

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Zenzaidoji, Sudhanakumara

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Zenzaidoji, Sudhanakumara

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