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.
188 Products
Hokusai
Panoramic Views of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance
JP-211121
Eisen
Pictures of Valiant Warriors (Buyu sakigake zue), Volume 2
JPR-211118
Katsushika, Isai
Kacho Sansui Hosoga Zukushi (Pictures of Fine Diagrams of Flowers & Birds, Mountains & Rivers)
JPR-211090
Hiroshige II
Shoshoku Gatsu, Volume I (Pictures of Various Occupations)
JPR-211088
Kuniyoshi
Poet Fujiwara no Okikaze: Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu on Pine Tree
JP1-46223
Hokusai
Poem by Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason
JPR-209999
Kuniyoshi
Poem by Ise no Daifu: Yatahei and Kokonoe-tayu
JPR-88900