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

  • Aikawa, Minwa (ask Gosentei)
  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Gakutei
  • Hirokage
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokusai
  • Kunisada
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Mimura, Seizan
  • Shunman
  • Sori III
  • Sugakudo
  • Toyokiyo
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Yoshiiku
  • Yoshikata
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshitsuya
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 100 Pictures by Kyosai

Subject

  • Animals & Fish
  • Birds
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Comic
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Extra Small (ie. Koban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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A Serpent Comes Out of the Ash Container

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A Serpent Comes Out of the Ash Container

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Flower on a Withered Tree, Strolling Like a Dog on the River

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Flower on a Withered Tree, Strolling Like a Dog on the River

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Oxen Prefer the Company of Oxen, Botange Shohaku, The Lovers of the Tanabata Festival, Sugawara Michizane and Kodomaru

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Oxen Prefer the Company of Oxen, Botange Shohaku, The Lovers of the Tanabata Festival, Sugawara Michizane and Kodomaru

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Hateful Things Are Feared by the World, A Crow Imitating a Cormorant

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Hateful Things Are Feared by the World, A Crow Imitating a Cormorant

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Playful Elephants from India

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Playful Elephants from India

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