Hokuba (1771 - 1844 )
Hokuba Teisai was one of the earliest and foremost pupils of Hokusai. From about 1800 to 1812 Hokuba produced illustrations for more than sixty kyoka poetry anthologies and novels. He then shifted his focus to painting, typically hanging scrolls depicting beautiful women with colorful detail set against a landscape done in a ink-wash style adopted from the Kano school.
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.