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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Kunisada
Sumo Wrestlers Koshigahama and Akitsukaze
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII in a Shibaraku Role with Bando Zenji as Namazu Bozu
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Unno Kotaro Yukiuji Disguised as Yamagatsu Buo
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Washi no Osaburo Disguised as Yamagatsu Kumao
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tannosuke as the Beauty Ojitsu
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yoritomo
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Kunisada
Kurou-kanja Iyonokami Minamoto no Yoshitsune
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Kunisada
Genji no Tsuna Finding Kintoki at Mount Ashigara
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Kunisada
Act IX from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III and Sawamura Tossho II
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV (R), Bando Hikosaburo V (C), and Kawarasaki Gonjuro I (L) in the Play Arishi Sugata Yume ni Mizuumi
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