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

  • Chikayoshi
  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Hidematsu
  • Hirokage
  • Hiroshige
  • Hokusai
  • Kunichika
  • Kunihisa II
  • Kuninao
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Sadahide
  • Shunsen
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Toyokuni III
  • Yoshikata
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshitsuna
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Children
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Insects
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Pastimes
  • Portraits
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Sumo
  • Tattoo
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Extra Small (ie. Koban)
  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)
  • Large (ie. Triptych)
  • Extra Large

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At the Water Well

Toyokuni III

At the Water Well

JP1-51148

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Sumo Wrestlers on the Ring for Entering Ceremony

Toyokuni III

Sumo Wrestlers on the Ring for Entering Ceremony

JP1-75962

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Snow

Toyokuni III

Snow

JPR1-51437

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Plum Blossoms and Snow through the Window, the Nature of Youth

Toyokuni III

Plum Blossoms and Snow through the Window, the Nature of Youth

JP2805

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Bando Takesaburo I as Kokura-an Chokichi and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Moremore Yoshizo

Toyokuni III

Bando Takesaburo I as Kokura-an Chokichi and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Moremore Yoshizo

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Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Odera Shobei (R), Ichikawa Kodanji IV (with tattoo arm) as Oniazami Seikichi (C), Iwai Kumezaburo III as Izayoi Osayo (L)

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Odera Shobei (R), Ichikawa Kodanji IV (with tattoo arm) as Oniazami Seikichi (C), Iwai Kumezaburo III as Izayoi Osayo (L)

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Kabuki Actors Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Matsubaya Bunzo, Onoe Kikugoro V as Matsubaya Matsuyama and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Yosobei's Son Yokichi, and an unidentified actor as a Police Officer

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Matsubaya Bunzo, Onoe Kikugoro V as Matsubaya Matsuyama and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Yosobei's Son Yokichi, and an unidentified actor as a Police Officer

JPR-104024

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Chushingura; Loyal Retainers

Toyokuni III

Chushingura; Loyal Retainers

JPR1-59985

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