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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Kuniyoshi
Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Doguya Jinzo
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro as Hige no Ikyu
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Female Kansuke
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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)
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Kawarasaki Gonjuro I as Shibahimo Tanzaemon
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Bando Hikosaburo V as Hakamadare Yasusuke
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Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actor Segawa Senjo as Sushiya Osato
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Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Shikan
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Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugoro as Shohei's Wife Otsuru
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as Jiraiya
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Tenjiku Tokubei
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Kunisada
Nakamura Shikan II Announces Farewell Performance
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