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

5800500

Artist

  • Eisen
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokusai
  • Kunisada
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Sadahide
  • Toyokuni III
  • Utamaro

Series

  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Moon & Night
  • Music & Dance
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Spring
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Tattoo
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Akasaka: Empress Komyo

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Akasaka: Empress Komyo

JPR-210694

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The Toi Crystal River in Settsu Province

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The Toi Crystal River in Settsu Province

JPR-208250

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Chinese Heroes Pledge Brotherhood in Peach Garden

Kuniyoshi

Chinese Heroes Pledge Brotherhood in Peach Garden

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Imado in Asakusa

Kuniyoshi

Imado in Asakusa

JPR-208147

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Story of The Eight Dogs by Old Kyokutei

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Story of The Eight Dogs by Old Kyokutei

JPR-87356

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Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Asayama Tetsuzan (L), Ichikawa Kodanji VI as Ghost of Okiku (C) and Bando Shuka as Hatsushiba (R)

Kuniyoshi

Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Asayama Tetsuzan (L), Ichikawa Kodanji VI as Ghost of Okiku (C) and Bando Shuka as Hatsushiba (R)

JPR-85104

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