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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Kuniyoshi
Miyamoto Musashi Knocking Down Shirakura Dengoemon and His Men with Broken Beam
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Kuniyoshi
Minamoto no Tametomo Sinking the Ship with a Single Arrow
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Kuniyoshi
Chapter XXIII, Hatsune: Rokusuke from Ketani Village; Vassal for War Commander Kato Kiyomasa in the Sengoku Period
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Toyokuni III
Plum Blossoms and Snow through the Window, the Nature of Youth
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Hiroshige
The Kirifuri Waterfall at Mt. Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province
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Hokusai
Waterfall Where Yoshitsune Washed His Horse at Yoshino in Yamato Province
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Hokusai
Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke
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Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Chapter 2: Hahakigi (The Broom Tree)
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Kuniyoshi
Asahina Saburo Yoshihide Wrestling with Two Crocodile Sharks at Kotsubo Beach, Kamakura
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Kuniyoshi
Hatsuhana, Wife of Iinuma Katsugoro Penancing under the Waterfall
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