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

  • Hirokage
  • Hiroshige
  • Hokusai
  • Kunisada
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Kyosai
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 100 Pictures by Kyosai
  • 100 Views of Mt. Fuji
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Upright

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • 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
  • Summer
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Tattoo
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

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

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

12 Products

Moon Viewing Fun

Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Moon Viewing Fun

JPR-210708

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Characters of The Tale of the Soga Brothers in the Guise of the Seven Lucky Gods

Kuniyoshi

Characters of The Tale of the Soga Brothers in the Guise of the Seven Lucky Gods

JP-209826

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan II

Kunisada

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan II

JP-209799

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The Husband's Beloved Red Hat, Shaking Like the Ghost of the Potato Jelly

Kyosai

The Husband's Beloved Red Hat, Shaking Like the Ghost of the Potato Jelly

JP-208817

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Hiding the Head but Not the Butt

Kyosai

Hiding the Head but Not the Butt

JP-208825

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Flower on a Withered Tree, Strolling Like a Dog on the River

Kyosai

Flower on a Withered Tree, Strolling Like a Dog on the River

JP-208823

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Flowers Sprouting from Dried Beans, Getting a Headache from Worrying about Your Neighbor's Digestion

Kyosai

Flowers Sprouting from Dried Beans, Getting a Headache from Worrying about Your Neighbor's Digestion

JP-208820

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A Bell Hanging from a Lantern, Three People Together are as Wise as the Bodhisattva Monju

Kyosai

A Bell Hanging from a Lantern, Three People Together are as Wise as the Bodhisattva Monju

JP-208815

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The Great Battle of the Vegetables and the Fish

Hirokage

The Great Battle of the Vegetables and the Fish

JPR-209063

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Fuji of Elegant Delight

Hokusai

Fuji of Elegant Delight

JP-209268

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Comical Panoramic View of Yoritomo’s Hunting Party under Mt. Fuji

Kuniyoshi

Comical Panoramic View of Yoritomo’s Hunting Party under Mt. Fuji

JPR-209064

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Akasaka

Hiroshige

Akasaka

JPR-111516

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