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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Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV (R), Bando Hikosaburo V (C), and Kawarasaki Gonjuro I (L) in the Play Arishi Sugata Yume ni Mizuumi
JPR-209715
Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Kusunoki Koma-hime (R) and Bando Hikosaburo V as Korokumaru (L) in the Play Shobu-dachi Tsui no Kyokaku
JPR-209713
Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Kawarasaki Gonjuro I, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII
JPR-209712
Kunichika
Actors Sawamura Tossho II as Mitsushima Samon, Otani Konohei as a Police Officer (Torite) (R), Nakamura Shikan IV as Jinriki Tamigoro, Nakamura Nakazo III as Kimyo-in (C), Otani Monza as a Bad Guy, and Otani Tomoemon V as Shirataki no Yokichi
JPR-209709
Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tamaya Shinbei and Bando Mitsugoro VI as Mikuni Kojoro in the Play Tsuki no Demura Rokuya no Hitofushi
JPR-209707
Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Bando Hikosaburo V, Ichimura Kakitsu IV, and Kawarasaki Gonjuro I in the Play Yagura Daiko Oto mo Yoshiwara
JPR-209706
Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Seki Sanjuro III in the play Keisei Soga Kuruwa Kagami
JPR-209705
Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon as (Thistle) Oniazami Seikichi
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Kuniyoshi
Scene from the Kabuki Play Ichinotani Mushae no Iezuto
JPR-210061
Kunisada
Beauty in front of the Nakamura-za Theater
JPR-210063
Toyokuni III
Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro
JPR-209725
Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon
JPR-209732
Toyokuni III
Tsuchinoe: Jiraiya and Arashi Yuminosuke
JPR-209728
Kunichika
Springtime Haze at the Edo Theater: Kabuki Actors Bando Hikosaburo (R) Nakamura Shikan (C), and Bando Mitsugoro (L)
JPR-209711
Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Kabuki Actors Bando Mitsugoro VI as Gosuke's Wife (Nyobo) Odai, Ichimura Kakitsu IV as the Otokodate Nozarashi Gosuke, and Sawamura Tossho II in a Female Role
JPR-209652
Kuniyoshi
Portrait of Daruma by Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV
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