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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Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Genji Figures with Flowers
JPR-210062
Toyokuni III
Chapter Miotsukushi: Channel Buoys, Bijin Holding a Mirror
JP3-44820
Toyokuni III
Chapter Sekiya: The Gate House, Oiran and Palanquin
JP3-44829
Hiroshige
Year-end Market at Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa
JP110866
Kuniyoshi
Characters of The Tale of the Soga Brothers in the Guise of the Seven Lucky Gods
JP-209826
Toyokuni III
Prince Hikaru Looking in from the Veranda
JPR1-51479
Kuniyoshi
Yatsuhashi: Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Teranishi Kanshin
JP-208298
Toyokuni III
Flowers and Birds: Genji and His Companions
JPR-209056
Kuniyoshi
Account of the Loyal Retainers: The Long-awaited Raid
JP-208870
Kunisada
View of Sangen Teahouse in Snow at Fukagawa Hachiman Shrine in Toto (Edo)
JP-111018