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

  • Aikawa, Minwa (ask Gosentei)
  • Chikayoshi
  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Gakutei
  • Gekko
  • Hidenari
  • Hirosada
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokkei
  • Hokuba
  • Hokuga
  • Hokusai
  • Hokushu
  • Hokutai
  • Katsushika, Isai
  • Kiyomoto II
  • Kunichika
  • Kunihisa II
  • Kuninao
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Mimura, Seizan
  • Sadafusa
  • Sadahide
  • Shigeharu
  • Shigenobu
  • Shinsai
  • Shunman
  • Shunsen
  • Sori III
  • Tamikuni
  • Teisai, Shuri
  • Toyohiro
  • Toyokiyo
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Toyokuni III
  • Tsukimaro
  • Utamaro
  • Utamaro II
  • Yoshiiku
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshitsuna
  • Yoshitsuya
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • Famous Restaurants in Toto
  • The 53 Stations by Two Brushes

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Bridges
  • Children
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Tokaido
  • Waterscapes

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Shirasuka: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Jiraiya

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Shirasuka: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Jiraiya

JP-208035

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Sakanoshita

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Sakanoshita

JP-208034

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Kakegawa

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Kakegawa

JP-208030

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Hodogaya

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Hodogaya

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Goyu

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Goyu

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Okitsu

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Okitsu

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Fuchu

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Fuchu

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Fujieda

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Fujieda

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Hiratsuka

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Hiratsuka

JP-208018

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Odawara

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Odawara

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Mitsuke

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Mitsuke

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Totsuka

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Totsuka

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Miya: Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Taira no Kagekiyo

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Miya: Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Taira no Kagekiyo

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Mishima

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Mishima

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Yokkaichi

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Yokkaichi

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Fukuroi

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Fukuroi

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Chiryu

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Chiryu

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Kusatsu: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Sasaki Takatsuna and Ichikawa Danjuro VI

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Kusatsu: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Sasaki Takatsuna and Ichikawa Danjuro VI

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The Matsunozushi Restaurant: actor Iwai kumesaburo as Osata

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

The Matsunozushi Restaurant: actor Iwai kumesaburo as Osata

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The Tomoeya Restaurant in Kameido: Tomoe Gozen

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

The Tomoeya Restaurant in Kameido: Tomoe Gozen

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The Sanmonjiya Restaurant: Iwai Hanshiro V as Sakurahime

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The Sanmonjiya Restaurant: Iwai Hanshiro V as Sakurahime

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Tsubone Iwafuji

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Tsubone Iwafuji

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