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
Tale of the Soga Brothers: The Killing of Ten
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Kunisada
Kan'u by the Craftsman Ichida Shoshichiro of Naniwa
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Kunisada
Kuro Hankan Yoshitsune (Minamoto Yoshitsune)
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Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler
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Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of Sumo Wrestler Shiranui Dakuemon
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Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler Hidenoyama Raigoro
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Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler Arauma Kichigoro
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Kunisada
The Great Sumo Wrestling between Momotaro and Kaidomaru
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Kunisada
Memorial Portrait of Sumo Wrestler Hidoshi Rikiya II (1799-1836) Defeating the King of Hell and Two Demons
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumezaburo II as Geisha Koito
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