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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Price

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Artist

  • Gekko
  • Hiroshige
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni III
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 100 Famous Views of Edo
  • Edo Meisho
  • Famous Views of 60-Odd Provinces

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • Cityscape
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Insects
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Manga & Bookplates
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Shunga
  • Spring
  • Still Life
  • Summer
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Tattoo
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)
  • Large (ie. Triptych)

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Horikiri Iris Garden

Hiroshige

Horikiri Iris Garden

JP-210845

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Begonia

Gekko

Begonia

JPR-210872

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Sakai Ferry

Hiroshige

Sakai Ferry

JP-111214

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Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryogoku Bridge

Hiroshige

Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryogoku Bridge

JPR-210442

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Tenjin Shrine at Kameido

Hiroshige

Tenjin Shrine at Kameido

JP-208303

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Shikan

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Shikan

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Dragonfly and Cotton Rose

Hiroshige

Dragonfly and Cotton Rose

JP1-63804

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Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge

Hiroshige

Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge

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Chapter 28: Nowaki

Toyokuni III

Chapter 28: Nowaki

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Horikiri Iris Garden

Hiroshige

Horikiri Iris Garden

JP-208308

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Fireflies in Darkness

Toyokuni III

Fireflies in Darkness

JPR-208136

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Small Birds and Chrysanthemums

Hiroshige

Small Birds and Chrysanthemums

JPR-79888

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Danjuro as Gontaro on Nihonbashi Bridge

Toyokuni III

Danjuro as Gontaro on Nihonbashi Bridge

JP110133

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Chrysanthemums: Poem by Seiryutei Shuei

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Chrysanthemums: Poem by Seiryutei Shuei

JPR5015

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Kashima Shrine at Hitachi

Hiroshige

Kashima Shrine at Hitachi

JPR1-46625

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Owari Province, Tsushima, Tenno Festival

Hiroshige

Owari Province, Tsushima, Tenno Festival

JP-209855

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