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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Toyokuni III
Flowers and Birds: Genji and His Companions Sharing a Boat
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Shiranui Daijin
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Toyokuni III
Tsuchinoto: Danshichi Kurobei and Mikawaya Giheiji
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Katanaya Hanshichi
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Iyami Kincho, and Bando Hikosaburo V as Iyami Kingoro
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Toyokuni III
Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in the New Yoshiwara
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai
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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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Toyokuni III
Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro
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Toyokuni III
Flowers and Birds: Genji and His Companions
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Toyokuni III
Mishima: Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo V as Osen
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