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
Li Kui, the Black Whirlwind, also Iron Ox (Kokusenpu Riki, Ichimei Ritetsugyu)
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Shiranui Daijin
JP-209771
Kuniyoshi
The Battle at the Eastern Temple, Rokuhara
JPR-209044
Kuniyoshi
The Last Stand of the Kusunoki Clan at Shijo Nawate
JP-209672
Kuniyoshi
Raiko Severing the Head of the Shutendoji at Mt. Oe
JPR-209045
Kuniyoshi
Warabi: Inuyama Dosetsu Seated Amid Flames with Magic Pine in His Mouth
JPR1-66174
Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kagekiyo
JPR-210525
Toyokuni III
Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai
JP-209773
Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Kawarasaki Gonjuro I as Shibahimo Tanzaemon
JPR-209721
Kuniyoshi
Du Qian, the Sky Toucher (Mochakuten Tosen)
JPR-209553
Yoshiiku
Murota Kageyu-jikan Yoshitaka (Kuroda Yoshitaka)
JPR-209575