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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540002800

Artist

  • Hiroshige
  • Kuniyoshi

Series

  • Snow, Moon and Flowers (Hiroshige)

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Insects
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Sumo
  • Tattoo
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter
  • 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)

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View of Whirlpools at Awa

Hiroshige

View of Whirlpools at Awa

JP-208068

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At Kiyomori's Visit to Nunobiki Waterfall, Ghost of Akugenta Yoshihira Strikes Down Nanba Jiro

Kuniyoshi

At Kiyomori's Visit to Nunobiki Waterfall, Ghost of Akugenta Yoshihira Strikes Down Nanba Jiro

JPR-84454

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Tales of the Three Kingdoms: Gentoku

Kuniyoshi

Tales of the Three Kingdoms: Gentoku

JP1-73724

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Battle of Mt. Ishibashi

Kuniyoshi

Battle of Mt. Ishibashi

JP2332

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Miyamoto Musashi Knocking Down Shirakura Dengoemon and His Men with Broken Beam

Kuniyoshi

Miyamoto Musashi Knocking Down Shirakura Dengoemon and His Men with Broken Beam

JPR-85112

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Minamoto no Tametomo Sinking the Ship with a Single Arrow

Kuniyoshi

Minamoto no Tametomo Sinking the Ship with a Single Arrow

JP5539

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Asahina Saburo Yoshihide Wrestling with Two Crocodile Sharks at Kotsubo Beach, Kamakura

Kuniyoshi

Asahina Saburo Yoshihide Wrestling with Two Crocodile Sharks at Kotsubo Beach, Kamakura

JP-89474

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