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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Price

7800500

Artist

  • Hiroshige
  • Yoshitoshi

Series

  • 100 Views of the Moon
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Gyosho
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Upright
  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Daily Practice of the Tea Ceremony
  • Sketches by Yoshitoshi
  • Tale of Genji (Gekko)

Subject

  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Bridges
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Landscapes
  • Moon & Night
  • Tokaido

Period

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

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Okazaki: Yahagi Bridge

Hiroshige

Okazaki: Yahagi Bridge

JPR-210001

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The Yugao Chapter from the Tale of Genji

Yoshitoshi

The Yugao Chapter from the Tale of Genji

JPR-209522

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