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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240002800

Artist

  • Kuniyoshi
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Subject

  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Legends & History
  • Portraits
  • Sumo
  • Warriors & Samurai

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Ehon
  • Painting
  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Large (ie. Triptych)

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Sumo Wrestler Koyanagi Chokichi

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Sumo Wrestler Koyanagi Chokichi

JPR-77566

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The Earth Spider Conjures Goblins at the Mansion of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko)

Kuniyoshi

The Earth Spider Conjures Goblins at the Mansion of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko)

JP-88250

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