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 Sawamura Sojuro V as Yoemon

Kuniyoshi

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Sojuro V as Yoemon

JP-209803

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan II

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan II

JP-209799

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzo V

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzo V

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Hitomaru Oroku

Toyokuni III

Hitomaru Oroku

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Doguya Jinzo

Kuniyoshi

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Doguya Jinzo

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

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Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai

Toyokuni III

Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai

JP-209773

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Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro as Hige no Ikyu

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro as Hige no Ikyu

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Female Kansuke

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Female Kansuke

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Kabuki Actors Ichimura Takematsu III as Senzai (R), Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Sanbaso (C), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Egami no Fukusuke (L)

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors Ichimura Takematsu III as Senzai (R), Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Sanbaso (C), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Egami no Fukusuke (L)

JPR-209710

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Kabuki Actors beneath Autumn Leaves

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors beneath Autumn Leaves

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon

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Kabuki Actor Kawarasaki Gonjuro I as Shibahimo Tanzaemon

Kunichika

Kabuki Actor Kawarasaki Gonjuro I as Shibahimo Tanzaemon

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Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Hakamadare Yasusuke

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Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Hakamadare Yasusuke

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Kabuki Actor Segawa Senjo as Sushiya Osato

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Segawa Senjo as Sushiya Osato

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Shikan

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Shikan

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

Yoshikuni

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan

JP-90079

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Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro as Shohei's Wife Otsuru

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro as Shohei's Wife Otsuru

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Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Jiraiya

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Jiraiya

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Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tenjiku Tokubei

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tenjiku Tokubei

JPR-209716

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Nakamura Shikan II Announces Farewell Performance

Kunisada

Nakamura Shikan II Announces Farewell Performance

JPR-209578

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