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
Hiroshige
Foxfires on New Year's Eve at the Changing Tree, Oji
JP-111150
Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
The Iseta Restaurant: Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Fukuoka Mitsugi
JPR1-71067
Toyokuni III
The Imitation Kisen: Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oniazami Seishichi
JP-94598
Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shindo Kojiro
JPR-209722
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
Kabuki Actor Ichimura Uzaemon as (Thistle) Oniazami Seikichi
JP-208792
Hiroshige
Wakasa Province, A Fishing Boat Catching Flatfish in a Net
JP-209972
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