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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Price

360001500

Artist

  • Kuniyoshi
  • Sadahide
  • Toyokuni I

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Bridges
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Landscapes
  • Portraits
  • Waterscapes
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Detailed View of Yokohama

Sadahide

Detailed View of Yokohama

JPR-210791

$12,000.00
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Yokohama Trade: Westerners Loading Cargo

Sadahide

Yokohama Trade: Westerners Loading Cargo

JPR-209122

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Pentaptych of the Five Manly Men

Kuniyoshi

Pentaptych of the Five Manly Men

JPR-208152

$5,800.00
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Cooling Off at Ryogoku in Edo

Toyokuni I

Cooling Off at Ryogoku in Edo

JPR1-66132

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