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

  • Ashiyuki
  • Chikayoshi
  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Gakutei
  • Gekko
  • Hidematsu
  • Hidenari
  • Hirokage
  • Hirosada
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokkei
  • Hokuba
  • Hokuga
  • Hokusai
  • Hokushu
  • Hokutai
  • Kiyomoto II
  • Kunichika
  • Kunihisa II
  • Kunimori II
  • Kuninao
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Mimura, Seizan
  • Sadafusa
  • Sadahide
  • Sadanobu
  • Shigeharu
  • Shigenobu
  • Shinsai
  • Shunman
  • Shunsen
  • Sori III
  • Sugakudo
  • Tamikuni
  • Teisai, Shuri
  • Toshikata
  • Toyohiro
  • Toyokiyo
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Toyokuni III
  • Tsukimaro
  • Utamaro
  • Utamaro II
  • Yoshiiku
  • Yoshikata
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshikuni
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Yoshitsuna
  • Yoshitsuya
  • Yoshiume
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • Famous Restaurants in Toto
  • Shadow Pictures of a Benevolent Reign

Subject

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

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1945 - 1989 (Showa & Postwar Period)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Tsuchinoe: Jiraiya and Arashi Yuminosuke

Toyokuni III

Tsuchinoe: Jiraiya and Arashi Yuminosuke

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Ichikawa Danjuro in a Shibaraku Scene

Toyokuni III

Ichikawa Danjuro in a Shibaraku Scene

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Mitsuuji on the Veranda by Moonlight

Toyokuni III

Mitsuuji on the Veranda by Moonlight

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Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin

JP-209831

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Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Iyami Kincho, and Bando Hikosaburo V as Iyami Kingoro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Iyami Kincho, and Bando Hikosaburo V as Iyami Kingoro

JP-209829

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Scene from a Kabuki Play

Toyokuni III

Scene from a Kabuki Play

JP-209827

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Fujisuke, Faithful Servant of the Ishii House

Toyokuni III

Fujisuke, Faithful Servant of the Ishii House

JP-209825

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Kinkanzashi no Jingoro

Toyokuni III

Kinkanzashi no Jingoro

JP-209824

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tossho II as Hiranoya Kojiro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tossho II as Hiranoya Kojiro

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Takesaburo I

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Takesaburo I

JP-209807

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Hitomaru Oroku

Toyokuni III

Hitomaru Oroku

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei

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Woman with Pipe and Peonies

Toyokuni III

Woman with Pipe and Peonies

JP-209788

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Woman and Peonies

Toyokuni III

Woman and Peonies

JP-209787

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Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in the New Yoshiwara

Toyokuni III

Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in the New Yoshiwara

JP-209784

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Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai

Toyokuni III

Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai

JP-209773

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Kabuki Actors Ichimura Takematsu III as Senzai (R), Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Sanbaso (C), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Egami no Fukusuke (L)

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors Ichimura Takematsu III as Senzai (R), Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Sanbaso (C), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Egami no Fukusuke (L)

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Kabuki Actors beneath Autumn Leaves

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors beneath Autumn Leaves

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Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke

Toyokuni III

Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke

JPR-209730

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Hakamadare Yasusuke

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Hakamadare Yasusuke

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Prince Hikaru Looking in from the Veranda

Toyokuni III

Prince Hikaru Looking in from the Veranda

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The Geisha Chokichi

Toyokuni III

The Geisha Chokichi

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