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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1400522

Artist

  • Ashiyuki
  • Hirosada
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hokusai
  • Hokushu
  • Kiyomoto II
  • Kunichika
  • Kunihisa II
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Sadafusa
  • Shigeharu
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni III
  • Yoshikuni
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshiume

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Bridges
  • Children
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Legends & History
  • Moon & Night
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Spring
  • Warriors & Samurai

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Kabuki Actors Bando Mitsugoro VI as Gosuke's Wife (Nyobo) Odai, Ichimura Kakitsu IV as the Otokodate Nozarashi Gosuke, and Sawamura Tossho II in a Female Role

Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)

Kabuki Actors Bando Mitsugoro VI as Gosuke's Wife (Nyobo) Odai, Ichimura Kakitsu IV as the Otokodate Nozarashi Gosuke, and Sawamura Tossho II in a Female Role

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The Priest Ikkyu

Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)

The Priest Ikkyu

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Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Hikiroku's Daughter Hamaji

Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)

Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Hikiroku's Daughter Hamaji

JPR1-57434

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