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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Hokusai
Fuji at Akazawa: Matano Goro Kunihisa and Kawazu no Saburo Sukeyasu
JP-112028
Hokusai
Fuji with a Rocket (Roen [noroshi] no Fuji)
JP-111604
Hokusai
Fuji in the Evening Sun at Shimadagahana (Shimadagahana sekiyo Fuji)
JP-111444
Toyokuni III
Plum Blossoms and Snow through the Window, the Nature of Youth
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Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Chapter 2: Hahakigi (The Broom Tree)
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Hokusai
Fine Views in the Eastern Capital at a Glance (Toto Shokei Ichiran), Volume 2
JPR-211093