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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Kuniyoshi
Nakayama Yaichiro, Marino Yashiro, Mekake Kikuno, Iwata Senjuro and Kamata Matahachi
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Hiroshige
Musashi Province, Sumida River, Snowy Morning
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Hokusai
Old View of the Boat-bridge at Sano in Kozuke Province
JP-208841
Hiroshige
Tsushima Province, A Fine Evening on the Coast
JP-209918
Kuniyoshi
Actor Onoe Kikugoro III Reclining in a Boat on the Sumida River
JPR-209991
Hiroshige
No. 30, Hamamatsu: The Scenic Place of the Murmuring Pines
JPR-210933
Hiroshige
No. 19, Ejiri: Tago Bay and Miho no Matsubara
JPR-210932
Kuniyoshi
Itabashi: Inuzuka Shino with Hikiroku, Samojiro and Dotaro
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