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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Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Genji on a Cherry Blossom-viewing Excursion
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Kuniyoshi
Higuchi Jiro (Kanemitsu) Fighting a Giant Monkey
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Hiroshige
Shinano Province, The Moon Reflected in the Sarashina Paddy-fields, Mount Kyodai
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Hiroshige
Act XI, Scene III: The Capture of Moronao
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Kuniyoshi
Poet Fujiwara no Okikaze: Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu on Pine Tree
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Toyokuni III
Adjusting Her Hairpin in the Lantern Light
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Sadahide
Events in Oedo Held Throughout the Year: First Sale on the Second Day of the New Year in Nihonbashi
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