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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Shirasuka: Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro III as a Cat Monster (Nekozuka)
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Iwai Kumezaburo as Princess Sayo: Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as Samezaya Shiroza
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Adjusting Her Hairpin in the Lantern Light
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The Imitation Kisen: Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oniazami Seishichi
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Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro
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Chapter Miotsukushi: Channel Buoys, Bijin Holding a Mirror
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Chapter Sekiya: The Gate House, Oiran and Palanquin
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Tsuchinoe: Jiraiya and Arashi Yuminosuke
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Fujisuke, Faithful Servant of the Ishii House
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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tossho II as Hiranoya Kojiro
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