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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Toyokuni III
Flowers and Birds: Genji and His Companions Sharing a Boat
JPR-210939
Hiroshige
Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryogoku Bridge
JPR-210442
Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Shikan
JPR5455
Kuniyoshi
Yatsuhashi: Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Teranishi Kanshin
JP-208298
Toyokuni III
Mitsuuji Amusing Himself at a Hot Springs Resort
JPR-209065
Kuniyoshi
Chapter XXIII, Hatsune: Rokusuke from Ketani Village; Vassal for War Commander Kato Kiyomasa in the Sengoku Period
JPR-78824
Unsigned / Unknown Artist
Chrysanthemums: Poem by Seiryutei Shuei
JPR5015
Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Chapter 2: Hahakigi (The Broom Tree)
JP1083