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

152 Products

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Fukusuke at the Tori-no-machi Festival

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Fukusuke at the Tori-no-machi Festival

JPR-109658

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Samurai Shiga Tanigoro

Toyokuni III

Samurai Shiga Tanigoro

JPR-109630

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Seimonya Keijuro

Toyokuni III

Seimonya Keijuro

JPR-82362

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezo as Watanabe no Tsuna and Onoe Matsusuke as the Spirit of Earth Spider

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezo as Watanabe no Tsuna and Onoe Matsusuke as the Spirit of Earth Spider

JPR-109888

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Issun Tokubei

Shigeharu

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Issun Tokubei

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Segawa Senjo and Cherry Blossoms

Toyokuni I

Segawa Senjo and Cherry Blossoms

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Kabuki Actors

Ashiyuki

Kabuki Actors

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Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Hikiroku's Daughter Hamaji

Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)

Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Hikiroku's Daughter Hamaji

JPR1-57434

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