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
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII in a Shibaraku Role with Bando Zenji as Namazu Bozu
JPR-211281
Toyokuni III
Iwai Kumezaburo as Princess Sayo: Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
JP5851
Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as Samezaya Shiroza
JP-209772
Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tannosuke as the Beauty Ojitsu
JP-209941
Toyokuni III
Flowers and Birds: Genji and His Companions Sharing a Boat
JPR-210939
Kuniyoshi
Banba: Utanosuke and Matabei the Stutterer
JPR-210699
Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Shiranui Daijin
JP-209771
Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
The Iseta Restaurant: Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Fukuoka Mitsugi
JPR1-71067
Toyokuni I
Matsumoto Koshiro as Igami-no-Gonta and Matsutaro
JP2005