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
Fuji with Seven Bridges in One View (Shichikyo ichiran no Fuji)
JP-111442
Hiroshige
Clear Morning after Snow at Nihonbashi Bridge
JPR-211270
Hokusai
Old View of the Boat-bridge at Sano in Kozuke Province
JP-208841
Kuniyoshi
Shinmachi: Gokumon Shobei and Kurofune Chuemon
JP-210639
Hokusai
Togetsu Bridge at Arashiyama in Yamashiro Province
JPR-209998
Hiroshige II
True Views of Hirose in Unshu (Izumo Province)
JPR-87187
Toyokuni III
Fireworks over Ryogoku Bridge in the Eastern Capital: Illustration of the Prosperity of the River Opening
JPR-209061