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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Eisen
Uncut sheet of "Tiger and Full Moon" and "Bird on Branch"
JPR-210171
Toyokuni I
Matsumoto Koshiro as Igami-no-Gonta and Matsutaro
JP2005
Hiroshige
Wakasa Province, A Fishing Boat Catching Flatfish in a Net
JP-209972
Hiroshige
Madai (Red Seabream) and Sansho (Japanese Pepper Leaves)
JP1-60756
Kunisada
Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro II as Takaichi Buemon, Bando Tamasaburo I as Takaichi Shonosuke
JP-209811
Hokusai
Fuji with Ascending Dragon (Toryu no Fuji)
JP1-37258
Kyosai
Flower on a Withered Tree, Strolling Like a Dog on the River
JP-208823
Kyosai
Oxen Prefer the Company of Oxen, Botange Shohaku, The Lovers of the Tanabata Festival, Sugawara Michizane and Kodomaru
JP-208822