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

  • Ashiyuki
  • Hirosada
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hokusai
  • Hokushu
  • Kiyomoto II
  • Kunichika
  • Kunihisa II
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyasu
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Sadafusa
  • Shigeharu
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni III
  • Yoshikuni
  • Yoshitora
  • Yoshiume

Series

  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Famous Restaurants in Toto
  • The 53 Stations by Two Brushes
  • Toto Meisho

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • Cityscape
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Insects
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Manga & Bookplates
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Shunga
  • Spring
  • Still Life
  • Summer
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Tattoo
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)
  • 1945 - 1989 (Showa & Postwar Period)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)
  • Large (ie. Triptych)
  • Extra Large

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan II

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan II

JP-209801

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Tsuchinoto: Danshichi Kurobei and Mikawaya Giheiji

Toyokuni III

Tsuchinoto: Danshichi Kurobei and Mikawaya Giheiji

JPR-209727

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The Imitation Kisen: Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oniazami Seishichi

Toyokuni III

The Imitation Kisen: Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oniazami Seishichi

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Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Katanaya Hanshichi

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Katanaya Hanshichi

JP-209832

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Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro

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Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fortune Teller Sangokuken

Kuniyoshi

Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fortune Teller Sangokuken

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kuzo II

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kuzo II

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Kabuki Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III and Sawamura Tossho II

Kunichika

Kabuki Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III and Sawamura Tossho II

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro

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Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV (R), Bando Hikosaburo V (C), and Kawarasaki Gonjuro I (L) in the Play Arishi Sugata Yume ni Mizuumi

Kunichika

Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV (R), Bando Hikosaburo V (C), and Kawarasaki Gonjuro I (L) in the Play Arishi Sugata Yume ni Mizuumi

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV

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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

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

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Kabuki Actors Kawarasaki Gonjuro I, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII

Kunichika

Kabuki Actors Kawarasaki Gonjuro I, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII

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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

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

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Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tamaya Shinbei and Bando Mitsugoro VI as Mikuni Kojoro in the Play Tsuki no Demura Rokuya no Hitofushi

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

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Kabuki Actors Bando Hikosaburo V, Ichimura Kakitsu IV, and Kawarasaki Gonjuro I in the Play Yagura Daiko Oto mo Yoshiwara

Kunichika

Kabuki Actors Bando Hikosaburo V, Ichimura Kakitsu IV, and Kawarasaki Gonjuro I in the Play Yagura Daiko Oto mo Yoshiwara

JPR-209706

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Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Seki Sanjuro III in the play Keisei Soga Kuruwa Kagami

Kunichika

Kabuki Actors Ichimura Kakitsu IV, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Seki Sanjuro III in the play Keisei Soga Kuruwa Kagami

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon as (Thistle) Oniazami Seikichi

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon as (Thistle) Oniazami Seikichi

JP-208792

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Scene from the Kabuki Play Ichinotani Mushae no Iezuto

Kuniyoshi

Scene from the Kabuki Play Ichinotani Mushae no Iezuto

JPR-210061

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Beauty in front of the Nakamura-za Theater

Kunisada

Beauty in front of the Nakamura-za Theater

JPR-210063

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

JP-209818

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Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro

Toyokuni III

Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro

JPR-209725

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