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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Hirosada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzo as Nikki Danjo
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Hirosada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebijuro IV as Hosokawa Katsumoto
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Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
Morning Glory: Actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Asao Okuyama III
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of the Cherry Tree : Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane
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Toyokuni III
Onoe Kikugoro III as the Ghost of Yasukata: Poem by Nakatsukasa
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Kyosai
Flower on a Withered Tree, Strolling Like a Dog on the River
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Kyosai
Oxen Prefer the Company of Oxen, Botange Shohaku, The Lovers of the Tanabata Festival, Sugawara Michizane and Kodomaru
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Kyosai
Hateful Things Are Feared by the World, A Crow Imitating a Cormorant
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Toyokuni III
Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Endo Musha: Poem by Fujiwara no Nakafumi
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Kuniyoshi
Comical Panoramic View of Yoritomo’s Hunting Party under Mt. Fuji
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Hokushu
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Ishikawa Goemon at the Okehazama Battle
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Tamikuni
Arashi Kitsuzaburo as Sumo Wrestler Horikoma Chokichi
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