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

  • Kuniyoshi
  • Sugakudo
  • Yoshitoshi

Series

  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Sketches by Yoshitoshi

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Children
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Summer
  • Surimono
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterscapes

Period

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

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Fuchibe Iga no Kami Kills Oto no Miya

Kuniyoshi

Fuchibe Iga no Kami Kills Oto no Miya

JPR-211074

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Skylark and Cockscomb

Sugakudo

Skylark and Cockscomb

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Raiko Enters the Treasure Mountain

Yoshitoshi

Raiko Enters the Treasure Mountain

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Kumagaya: Kojiro Naoie Armored and Mounted

Kuniyoshi

Kumagaya: Kojiro Naoie Armored and Mounted

JPR1-67384

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