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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Price

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Artist

  • Hokusai
  • Utamaro
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Children
  • Manga & Bookplates
  • Portraits
  • Surimono
  • Waterscapes

Period

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

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Extra Small (ie. Koban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Autumn Outing

Hokusai

Autumn Outing

JP1-26716

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Young Beauty Carrying a New Year's Tray

Hokusai

Young Beauty Carrying a New Year's Tray

JP1-26633

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Grasses of the Four Seasons

Hokusai

Grasses of the Four Seasons

JP1-37262

$2,800.00
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Travelers in Sagami Province

Hokusai

Travelers in Sagami Province

JP1-26710

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Willow Tree on the Sumida River

Hokusai

Willow Tree on the Sumida River

JP1-26690

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Hotei and Chinese Boys in New Year

Hokusai

Hotei and Chinese Boys in New Year

JP1-37270

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