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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Kunisada
Kuro Hankan Yoshitsune (Minamoto Yoshitsune)
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Iwai Hanshiro VI as Minazuruhime
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Unsigned / Unknown Artist
Courtesan of the House of Daikokuya
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Kuniyoshi
Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Teraoka Heiemon
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Yoshitora
The Actor Bando Mitsugoro as Shindozaemon's Daughter Yushide
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Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
The Matsunozushi Restaurant: actor Iwai kumesaburo as Osata
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Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
The Tomoeya Restaurant in Kameido: Tomoe Gozen
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Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Omezo and Iwai Kumesaburo
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Kuniyoshi
Wanting for a Beautiful Nape: Carp from Sunomata River in Totomi
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Arimatsu, between Chiryu and Narumi
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Minamoto no Kintada no Ason: Kabuki Actor Iwai Shijaku as Takao
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Fujiwara no Takamitsu: Kabuki Actor Sawamura Gennosuke as Yorikane
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