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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Artist

  • Hidematsu
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokkei
  • Hokusai
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Tamikuni
  • Toyokuni III
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Kuniyoshi)
  • 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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Sekigahara: Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro

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Sekigahara: Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro

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Nihonbashi: Ashikaga Yorikane, Narukami Katsunosuke, and Ukiyo Tohei

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Nihonbashi: Ashikaga Yorikane, Narukami Katsunosuke, and Ukiyo Tohei

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Moriyama: Zen Master Bodhidharma (Daruma)

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Moriyama: Zen Master Bodhidharma (Daruma)

JPR-210701

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Akasaka: Empress Komyo

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Akasaka: Empress Komyo

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Sumo Wrestlers Shiranui Dakuemon (center left), Tsurugizan Taniemon (center right), with Referee Shikimori Inosuke (left) and Judge Retired Wrestler Miyagino (right)

Kuniyoshi

Sumo Wrestlers Shiranui Dakuemon (center left), Tsurugizan Taniemon (center right), with Referee Shikimori Inosuke (left) and Judge Retired Wrestler Miyagino (right)

JP-104226

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General Tamura and the Demon of Suzuka Mountain in Tsuchiyama

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General Tamura and the Demon of Suzuka Mountain in Tsuchiyama

JP1-63332

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Sekigahara: Sumo Wrestlers Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro

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Sekigahara: Sumo Wrestlers Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro

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Chapter XXIII, Hatsune: Rokusuke from Ketani Village; Vassal for War Commander Kato Kiyomasa in the Sengoku Period

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Chapter XXIII, Hatsune: Rokusuke from Ketani Village; Vassal for War Commander Kato Kiyomasa in the Sengoku Period

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Old Woman as Parody of Death of Buddha

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Old Woman as Parody of Death of Buddha

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