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
  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Gakutei
  • Gekko
  • Hidematsu
  • Hirokage
  • Hirosada
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokkei
  • Hokusai
  • Kunichika
  • Kunimori II
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Sadahide
  • Sadanobu
  • Shinsai
  • Shunman
  • Shunsen
  • Sori III
  • Sugakudo
  • Toshikata
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Toyokuni III
  • Utamaro
  • Yoshiiku
  • Yoshikata
  • Yoshikazu
  • Yoshikuni
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Yoshitsuya
  • Yoshiume
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • 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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Chapter 9: Aoi

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Chapter 32: Umegae

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Chapter 32: Umegae

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Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Shiranui Daijin

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Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Shiranui Daijin

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Tsuchinoto: Danshichi Kurobei and Mikawaya Giheiji

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Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Katanaya Hanshichi

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Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Katanaya Hanshichi

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Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin

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Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin

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

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

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Scene from a Kabuki Play

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Scene from a Kabuki Play

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Kinkanzashi no Jingoro

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Kinkanzashi no Jingoro

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Takesaburo I

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Takesaburo I

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Hitomaru Oroku

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Hitomaru Oroku

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Woman with Pipe and Peonies

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Woman with Pipe and Peonies

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Woman and Peonies

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Woman and Peonies

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Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in the New Yoshiwara

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Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai

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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)

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Kabuki Actors beneath Autumn Leaves

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Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro

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Jorakuji Temple

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Flower Viewing at Kinkaku-ji

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Flowers and Birds: Genji and His Companions

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Mishima: Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo V as Osen

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