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

  • Ashiyuki
  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Gekko
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokuba
  • Hokusai
  • Hokushu
  • Kunichika
  • Kunimori II
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Sadafusa
  • Sadahide
  • Shigeharu
  • Shigenobu
  • Shunsen
  • Sugakudo
  • Tamikuni
  • Toshikata
  • Toyohiro
  • Toyokiyo
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Toyokuni III
  • Tsukimaro
  • Utamaro
  • Utamaro II
  • Yoshiiku
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshikuni
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Yoshitsuya
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Portraits
  • Tattoo
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Winter

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Medium (ie. Oban)
  • Large (ie. Triptych)

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tannosuke as the Beauty Ojitsu

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Kabuki Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III and Sawamura Tossho II

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon as (Thistle) Oniazami Seikichi

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Female Kansuke

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Kabuki Actor Kawarasaki Gonjuro I as Shibahimo Tanzaemon

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