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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Yoshitoshi
The Yugao Chapter from the Tale of Genji
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of the Cherry Tree : Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane
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Kuniyoshi
General Tamura and the Demon of Suzuka Mountain in Tsuchiyama
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Eisen
Sakanoshita: The Courtesan Katsuragi from the House of Sanomatsu
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Eisen
Evening Glow at Naka-no-cho: Yoyoyama of the House of Matsubaya
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Utamaro
Entertainments of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival
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Utamaro
First Performance by a Young Geisha: Tenaraiko
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Kunisada
View of Sangen Teahouse in Snow at Fukagawa Hachiman Shrine in Toto (Edo)
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