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

2800500

Artist

  • Eisen
  • Gakutei
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hokusai
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Mimura, Seizan
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni III
  • Yoshiiku
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Yoshitsuna
  • Yoshitsuya

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Children
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Music & Dance
  • Pastimes
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Shunga
  • Spring
  • Still Life
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Washi no Osaburo Disguised as Yamagatsu Kumao

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Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Washi no Osaburo Disguised as Yamagatsu Kumao

JPR-210523

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Tawara Toda (Fujiwara no Hidesato)

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Tawara Toda (Fujiwara no Hidesato)

JPR-209994

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Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yoritomo

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Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yoritomo

JPR-210524

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Tawara Toda Hidesato and Giant Centipede

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Tawara Toda Hidesato and Giant Centipede

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Kurou-kanja Iyonokami Minamoto no Yoshitsune

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Kurou-kanja Iyonokami Minamoto no Yoshitsune

JPR-210003

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Genji no Tsuna Finding Kintoki at Mount Ashigara

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Genji no Tsuna Finding Kintoki at Mount Ashigara

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Act IX from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer

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Act IX from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer

JPR-210528

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Taira no Shinno Masakado

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Taira no Shinno Masakado

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kagekiyo

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kagekiyo

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Gentoku Visiting Komei in Snow

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Gentoku Visiting Komei in Snow

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The Battle of Yashima in the Genpei War

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The Battle of Yashima in the Genpei War

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Tale of the Soga Brothers: The Killing of Ten

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Tale of the Soga Brothers: The Killing of Ten

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Kuro Hankan Yoshitsune (Minamoto Yoshitsune)

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Kuro Hankan Yoshitsune (Minamoto Yoshitsune)

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