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.
18 Products
Yoshitora
COMPLETE SERIES: The Story of the Faithful Samurai in The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers
JPR-211142
Mimura, Seizan
Father and Son United: Monkeys Offering Food to a Courtier
JPR-77561
Eisen
Pictures of Valiant Warriors (Buyu sakigake zue), Volume 2
JPR-211118
Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Washi no Osaburo Disguised as Yamagatsu Kumao
JPR-210523
Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yoritomo
JPR-210524
Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kagekiyo
JPR-210525
Hokusai
Fuji with Ascending Dragon (Toryu no Fuji)
JP1-37258
Yoshiiku
Murota Kageyu-jikan Yoshitaka (Kuroda Yoshitaka)
JPR-209575
Hokusai
Picture Book of Chinese and Japanese Warriors (Wakan Ehon sakigake shohen)
JPR-209021
Kuniyoshi
Shi Jin, the Nine-dragon Tatttoo (Kyumonryu Shishin)
JPR-111864
Yoshitoshi
The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon
JP-104239