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
Sumo Wrestlers Shiranui Dakuemon (center left), Tsurugizan Taniemon (center right), with Referee Shikimori Inosuke (left) and Judge Retired Wrestler Miyagino (right)
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Hiroshige
Wakasa Province, A Fishing Boat Catching Flatfish in a Net
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Hiroshige
Madai (Red Seabream) and Sansho (Japanese Pepper Leaves)
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Hokusai
Fuji with Ascending Dragon (Toryu no Fuji)
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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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Kuniyoshi
Comical Panoramic View of Yoritomo’s Hunting Party under Mt. Fuji
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Tamikuni
Arashi Kitsuzaburo as Sumo Wrestler Horikoma Chokichi
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