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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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Iwai Hanshiro VI as Minazuruhime
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Toyokuni III
Female Daruma at Iwabuchi, between Yoshiwara and Kanbara
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Arimatsu, between Chiryu and Narumi
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Minamoto no Kintada no Ason: Kabuki Actor Iwai Shijaku as Takao
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Fujiwara no Takamitsu: Kabuki Actor Sawamura Gennosuke as Yorikane
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi: Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo as Fox Tadanobu
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Minamoto no Shitago: Kabuki Actor Arashi Hinasuke IV as Ko no Moronao
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Fujiwara no Kiyomasa: Kabuki Actor Bando Takesaburo as Chunagon Yukihira
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Toyokuni III
Ariwara no Narihira at the Sumida River
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Fukusuke at the Tori-no-machi Festival
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Otokodate Yami no Yoichiro
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Beisho as Otokodate Ude no Kisaburo
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