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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COMPLETE SERIES: The Story of the Faithful Samurai in The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers
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Matsumoto Koshiro as Igami-no-Gonta and Matsutaro
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Kabuki Actor Segawa Senjo as Sushiya Osato
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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Shikan
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Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro as Shohei's Wife Otsuru
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Sendaihagi: Nikki Danjo at Yamana-ke Mansion
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The Syllable Ri: Kaiga Yazaemon Fujiwara no Tomonobu
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The Actor Bando Mitsugoro as Shindozaemon's Daughter Yushide
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune Crossing the Sea to Ezo
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Miyamoto Musashi Fights Sasaki Ganryu at Ganryujima in Kyushu
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Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Omezo and Iwai Kumesaburo
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