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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Artist

  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Hirosada
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hokusai
  • Hokushu
  • Kunichika
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Shunman
  • Shunsen
  • Tamikuni
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
  • Toyokuni III
  • Utamaro
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshiume
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 100 Views of Mt. Fuji
  • Biographies of the Loyal Retainers
  • Famous Restaurants in Toto
  • Hokusai Manga
  • Shadow Pictures of a Benevolent Reign
  • Toto Meisho

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

  • 1600 - 1800 (Early Edo)
  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)

Medium

  • Painting
  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Oiran: Highest-ranking Courtesan

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Oiran: Highest-ranking Courtesan

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Yokkaichi

Kuniyoshi

Yokkaichi

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Portrait of Daruma by Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV

Kuniyoshi

Portrait of Daruma by Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tossho II as Hiranoya Kojiro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tossho II as Hiranoya Kojiro

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I

Hirosada

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I

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Fuji in a Sake Cup (Haichu no Fuji)

Hokusai

Fuji in a Sake Cup (Haichu no Fuji)

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Female Kansuke

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Female Kansuke

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Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke

Toyokuni III

Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Hakamadare Yasusuke

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Hakamadare Yasusuke

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The Geisha Chokichi

Toyokuni III

The Geisha Chokichi

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Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro as Shohei's Wife Otsuru

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro as Shohei's Wife Otsuru

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Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Jiraiya

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Jiraiya

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tenjiku Tokubei

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tenjiku Tokubei

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Kabuki Actor Kiyoshichi

Hirosada

Kabuki Actor Kiyoshichi

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Onoe

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Onoe

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzo as Nikki Danjo

Hirosada

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzo as Nikki Danjo

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebijuro IV as Hosokawa Katsumoto

Hirosada

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebijuro IV as Hosokawa Katsumoto

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Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan as Ohatsu

Hirosada

Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan as Ohatsu

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Morning Glory: Actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Asao Okuyama III

Hiroshige & Toyokuni III

Morning Glory: Actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Asao Okuyama III

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Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of the Cherry Tree : Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of the Cherry Tree : Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane

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Onoe Kikugoro III as the Ghost of Yasukata: Poem by Nakatsukasa

Toyokuni III

Onoe Kikugoro III as the Ghost of Yasukata: Poem by Nakatsukasa

JP2763

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