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
Poem by Ise no Daifu: Yatahei and Kokonoe-tayu
JPR-88900
Kunisada
Beauty in front of the Nakamura-za Theater
JPR-210063
Toyokuni III
Chapter Miotsukushi: Channel Buoys, Bijin Holding a Mirror
JP3-44820
Toyokuni III
Chapter Sekiya: The Gate House, Oiran and Palanquin
JP3-44829
Shigenobu
Manju-dayu of the Naka-Ogiya as Han Shan (Kanzan)
JPR-209649
Kuniyoshi
Courtesan Nanaoka of the Sugata-ebi House, 1 Chome, Kyomachi
JP-208574
Hiroshige
Madai (Red Seabream) and Sansho (Japanese Pepper Leaves)
JP1-60756