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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Hiroshige
Okazaki: Yahagi Bridge over the Yahagi River
JPR-208551
Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler
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Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of Sumo Wrestler Shiranui Dakuemon
JP-208695
Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler Hidenoyama Raigoro
JP-208694
Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler Arauma Kichigoro
JP-208693
Kuniyoshi
Goldfish, Killifish, Stingray and Puffer Fish
JP-208690
Kuniyoshi
Sekigahara: Sumo Wrestlers Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro
JPR-78816
Yoshikazu
Battle of Kurikaradani at Tonamiyama in Kaga Province
JP-110892
Kuniyoshi
Chapter XXIII, Hatsune: Rokusuke from Ketani Village; Vassal for War Commander Kato Kiyomasa in the Sengoku Period
JPR-78824
Hiroshige
Shimadai (Striped Sea Bream) and Ainame (Rock-Trout)
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Kuniyoshi
Makibashira: Saginoike Heikuro Fighting a Giant Python
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