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
Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in the New Yoshiwara
JP-209784
Toyokuni III
Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai
JP-209773
Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Two Beauties in the Doorway
JP-209795
Eisen
Nissaka: The Courtesan Mitsusode of the Owariya
JPR-209549
Eisen
Yoshida: The Courtesan Takanoo from the Sugata-Ebiya
JPR-209544
Toyokuni III
Prince Hikaru Looking in from the Veranda
JPR1-51479
Yoshitoshi
The Yugao Chapter from the Tale of Genji
JPR-209522
Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Spirit of the Cherry Tree : Poem by Fujiwara no Motozane
JPR1-70986