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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Toyokuni III
Sumo Wrestlers on the Ring for Entering Ceremony
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Kuniyoshi
Wanting for a Beautiful Nape: Carp from Sunomata River in Totomi
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Hiroshige
Foxfires at New Year's Eve at Changing Tree
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Yoshitoshi
The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon
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Kunisada
The Great Sumo Wrestling between Momotaro and Kaidomaru
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Kuniyoshi
Scene from Yoritomo's Hunting Party: Nitta Shiro Tadatsune Killing Wild Boar
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Kunisada
Memorial Portrait of Sumo Wrestler Hidoshi Rikiya II (1799-1836) Defeating the King of Hell and Two Demons
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Hokusai
Fuji at Akazawa: Matano Goro Kunihisa and Kawazu no Saburo Sukeyasu
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Hidematsu
The Great Kanjin Sumo: High Ranking Sumo Wrestlers Line Up Towards the Ring
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Kuniyoshi
Poem by Yozei-In: Oniwakamaru and Giant Carp
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