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
Last Stand of Kusunoki Clan at Shijo-Nawate
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Kuniyoshi
Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Asayama Tetsuzan (L), Ichikawa Kodanji VI as Ghost of Okiku (C) and Bando Shuka as Hatsushiba (R)
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Kuniyoshi
Scene from Yoritomo's Hunting Party: Nitta Shiro Tadatsune Killing Wild Boar
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Hiroshige
Minakuchi; Famous Pine Trees at the Foot of Mt. Hiramatsu
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Chunagon Yakamochi: Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo as Fox Tadanobu
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Kuniyoshi
Poet Fujiwara no Okikaze: Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu
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Uesugi Terutora Nyudo Kenshin and Takeda Harunobu Nyudo Shingen at Kawanakajima Battle
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Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezo as Watanabe no Tsuna and Onoe Matsusuke as the Spirit of Earth Spider
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