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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Hokusai
Panoramic Views of Both Banks of the Sumida River at a Glance
JP-211121
Kunichika
Kabuki Actors Kawarasaki Gonjuro I, Sawamura Tanosuke III, and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII
JPR-209712
Hiroshige
Year-end Market at Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa
JP110866
Kuniyoshi
In 1153 at Konoe's Palace the Skilled Archer Yorimasa Shooting the Nue
JP1503
Toyokuni III
Plum Garden at Omurai: The Seven Plants of Autumn
JPR-209058
Hokusai
Drum Bridge at Kameido Tenjin Shrine
JP1-73745
Unsigned / Unknown Artist
Chrysanthemums: Poem by Seiryutei Shuei
JPR5015