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.

Filter

3 Products

Clear All

Availability

  • Available
  • Archive

Price

27000250

Artist

  • Hokusai
  • Toyokuni III
  • Utamaro

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Children
  • Portraits
  • Surimono

Period

  • 1600 - 1800 (Early Edo)
  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)
  • 1945 - 1989 (Showa & Postwar Period)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Extra Small (ie. Koban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)

3 Products

Hitomaru Oroku

Toyokuni III

Hitomaru Oroku

JP-209776

SOLD

First Performance by a Young Geisha: Tenaraiko

Utamaro

First Performance by a Young Geisha: Tenaraiko

JPR-209158

SOLD

Young Beauty Carrying a New Year's Tray

Hokusai

Young Beauty Carrying a New Year's Tray

JP1-26633

SOLD