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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Artist

  • Aikawa, Minwa (ask Gosentei)
  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hiroshige II
  • Hokusai
  • Kiyomoto II
  • Kunichika
  • Kunisada
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Sadahide
  • Shinsai
  • Shunman
  • Toyokuni I
  • Toyokuni III
  • Utamaro
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 100 Ghost Stories
  • 100 Pictures by Kyosai
  • 100 Poems by 100 Poets (Kuniyoshi)
  • 100 Views of Mt. Fuji
  • 100 Views of the Moon
  • 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Hokusai)
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Kuniyoshi)
  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Biographies of the Loyal Retainers
  • Hokusai Manga
  • Ogura 100 Poems by 100 Poets
  • The 53 Stations by Two Brushes

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • Cityscape
  • Comic
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Genji
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Insects
  • Landscapes
  • Legends & History
  • Manga & Bookplates
  • Moon & Night
  • Mt. Fuji
  • Music & Dance
  • Nature
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Portraits
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Shunga
  • Spring
  • Still Life
  • Summer
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Tattoo
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

  • 1600 - 1800 (Early Edo)
  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)
  • 1868 - 1912 (Meiji)

Medium

  • Ehon
  • Painting
  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Extra Small (ie. Koban)
  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)
  • Large (ie. Triptych)

115 Products

Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Asayama Tetsuzan (L), Ichikawa Kodanji VI as Ghost of Okiku (C) and Bando Shuka as Hatsushiba (R)

Kuniyoshi

Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Asayama Tetsuzan (L), Ichikawa Kodanji VI as Ghost of Okiku (C) and Bando Shuka as Hatsushiba (R)

JPR-85104

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Oiwake: Oiwa and Takuetsu

Kuniyoshi

Oiwake: Oiwa and Takuetsu

JPR-87288

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Memorial Portrait of Sumo Wrestler Hidoshi Rikiya II (1799-1836) Defeating the King of Hell and Two Demons

Kunisada

Memorial Portrait of Sumo Wrestler Hidoshi Rikiya II (1799-1836) Defeating the King of Hell and Two Demons

JP-94573

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Ghosts of Oiwa and Kohei

Kuniyoshi

Ghosts of Oiwa and Kohei

JPR-87314

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Children's Accomplishments: The Four Arts

Kunisada

Children's Accomplishments: The Four Arts

JP-209372

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Lady Ishida no Tsubone

Toyokuni III

Lady Ishida no Tsubone

JPR-109650

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Nakamura Nakazo II as Toneri Matsuomaru

Toyokuni III

Nakamura Nakazo II as Toneri Matsuomaru

JP5872

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Kite Flying

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Kite Flying

JPR5864

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezo as Watanabe no Tsuna and Onoe Matsusuke as the Spirit of Earth Spider

Toyokuni I

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezo as Watanabe no Tsuna and Onoe Matsusuke as the Spirit of Earth Spider

JPR-109888

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Poem by Yozei-In: Oniwakamaru and Giant Carp

Kuniyoshi

Poem by Yozei-In: Oniwakamaru and Giant Carp

JPR-88896

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Kusatsu:Dragon Lady and Tawara no Toto

Kuniyoshi

Kusatsu:Dragon Lady and Tawara no Toto

JPR-84868

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Ama Recovering the Jewel from the Dragon Palace

Kuniyoshi

Ama Recovering the Jewel from the Dragon Palace

JPR-85195

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The Special New Year Calligraphy

Shinsai

The Special New Year Calligraphy

JPR5882

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Takiyasha and Skeleton Specter in the Ruined Palace at Soma

Kuniyoshi

Takiyasha and Skeleton Specter in the Ruined Palace at Soma

JPR-88238

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Tametomo Encounters the Storm at Minamata in Higo Province

Kuniyoshi

Tametomo Encounters the Storm at Minamata in Higo Province

JPR-85150

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Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko) Attacking Shutendoji

Kuniyoshi

Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko) Attacking Shutendoji

JPR-85521

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Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo V as Nun Myochin

Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)

Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo V as Nun Myochin

JPR-77551

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Mother and Son on Boy's Day

Shunman

Mother and Son on Boy's Day

JPR1-66935

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Funya no Yasuhide

Utamaro

Funya no Yasuhide

JP-209375

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