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 Sawamura Tossho as Funagashira-Koheiji
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan as Sato Tadanobu
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Toyokuni III
Mishima: Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo V as Osen
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Kuniyoshi
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as a Lion from the Play Grasses of Valor
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Toyokuni III
Mitsuuji Amusing Himself at a Hot Springs Resort
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Iwai Hanshiro VI as Minazuruhime
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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
Miya: Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Taira no Kagekiyo
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Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
Kusatsu: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Sasaki Takatsuna and Ichikawa Danjuro VI
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Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
The Matsunozushi Restaurant: actor Iwai kumesaburo as Osata
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Kuniyoshi
Chapter XXIII, Hatsune: Rokusuke from Ketani Village; Vassal for War Commander Kato Kiyomasa in the Sengoku Period
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