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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Nitta Shiro Tadatsune Encounters the Goddess of Mount Fuji
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Seba: Musashibo Benkei and Tosabo Shoshun
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Poem by Sanjo Udaijin: Kaidomaru (Kintoki) and Urabe Suetake
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Nihonbashi: Ashikaga Yorikane, Narukami Katsunosuke, and Ukiyo Tohei
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Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fortune Teller Sangokuken
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Poem by Dainagon Tsunenobu: Akogi Heiji and Hiragawara Jirozo
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Returning Boats at Hakata: The Pirate Kezori Kuemon in European Clothes
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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Dankuro
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Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikujiro II as the Courtesan Miuraya Takao
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Biography of Yoshitsune: Gojo Bridge
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Nichiren in the Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island
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Gongsun Sheng, the Dragon in the Clouds (Nyuunryu Kosonsho)
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Zheng Tianshou, the Fair-skinned General (Hakumenrokun Teitenja)
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Li Gun, the Flying Deity (Hitentaisei Rikon)
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Takiyasha and Skeleton Specter in the Ruined Palace at Soma
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Actor Onoe Kikugoro III Reclining in a Boat on the Sumida River
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The Capture of Kidomaru by Minamoto no Raiko
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Kenshin Leading Furious Charge into the Takeda Troops at the Great Battle of Kawanakajima
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Takeda Shingen Destroys Suwa Yorishige in Battle
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Endo Musha Morito Approaching Kesa Gozen While a Servant Adjusts Watanabe Wataru's Sandal in the Background
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Sanada no Yoichi Yoshihisa and Matano no Goro Kagehisa at the Battle of Ishibashiyama
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Sheet 12 of the Eight Sheets of the 72 Earthly Stars
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