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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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tannosuke as the Beauty Ojitsu
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Shiranui Daijin
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Hiroshige
Musashi Province, Sumida River, Snowy Morning
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Kuniyoshi
Characters of The Tale of the Soga Brothers in the Guise of the Seven Lucky Gods
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Kuniyoshi
Account of the Loyal Retainers: The Long-awaited Raid
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Utamaro
First Performance by a Young Geisha: Tenaraiko
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Toyokuni III
Mitsuuji Amusing Himself at a Hot Springs Resort
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Hiroshige
Year-end Market at Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa
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