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
Chapter Miotsukushi: Channel Buoys, Bijin Holding a Mirror
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Toyokuni III
Chapter Sekiya: The Gate House, Oiran and Palanquin
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Kuniyoshi
The Last Stand of the Kusunoki Clan at Shijo Nawate
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Kuniyoshi
Raiko Severing the Head of the Shutendoji at Mt. Oe
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Kuniyoshi
Warabi: Inuyama Dosetsu Seated Amid Flames with Magic Pine in His Mouth
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kagekiyo
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Hokusai
Fuji with Ascending Dragon (Toryu no Fuji)
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Toyokuni III
Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke
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Kuniyoshi
Du Qian, the Sky Toucher (Mochakuten Tosen)
JPR-209553
Toyokuni III
Prince Hikaru Looking in from the Veranda
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Yoshiiku
Murota Kageyu-jikan Yoshitaka (Kuroda Yoshitaka)
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Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Four Retainers Defeating Shutendoji
JPR-209031
Kuniyoshi
Incomparable Hidari Jingoro (Master Sculptor)
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