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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Artist

  • Ashiyuki
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hokushu
  • Kunichika
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Sadafusa
  • Shigeharu
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Toyokuni III
  • Yoshikuni
  • Yoshitora

Series

  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Famous Restaurants in Toto
  • The 53 Stations by Two Brushes
  • Toto Meisho

Subject

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

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1945 - 1989 (Showa & Postwar Period)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fortune Teller Sangokuken

Kuniyoshi

Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fortune Teller Sangokuken

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kuzo II

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kuzo II

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Kabuki Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III and Sawamura Tossho II

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Kabuki Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III and Sawamura Tossho II

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon as (Thistle) Oniazami Seikichi

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon as (Thistle) Oniazami Seikichi

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Beauty in front of the Nakamura-za Theater

Kunisada

Beauty in front of the Nakamura-za Theater

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

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Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro

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Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

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Tsuchinoe: Jiraiya and Arashi Yuminosuke

Toyokuni III

Tsuchinoe: Jiraiya and Arashi Yuminosuke

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Ichikawa Danjuro in a Shibaraku Scene

Toyokuni III

Ichikawa Danjuro in a Shibaraku Scene

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Kabuki Actor Matsumoto Yonezo

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Matsumoto Yonezo

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Kabuki Actor Segawa Senjo as Takao

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Segawa Senjo as Takao

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Portrait of Daruma by Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV

Kuniyoshi

Portrait of Daruma by Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV

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Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

Sadafusa

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

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Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin

JP-209831

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Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Iyami Kincho, and Bando Hikosaburo V as Iyami Kingoro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Iyami Kincho, and Bando Hikosaburo V as Iyami Kingoro

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Scene from a Kabuki Play

Toyokuni III

Scene from a Kabuki Play

JP-209827

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Characters of The Tale of the Soga Brothers in the Guise of the Seven Lucky Gods

Kuniyoshi

Characters of The Tale of the Soga Brothers in the Guise of the Seven Lucky Gods

JP-209826

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Fujisuke, Faithful Servant of the Ishii House

Toyokuni III

Fujisuke, Faithful Servant of the Ishii House

JP-209825

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