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
Tsumagome: Abe no Yasuna and Fox Kuzunoha
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Toyokuni III
Tsuchinoto: Danshichi Kurobei and Mikawaya Giheiji
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Kuniyoshi
Raiko Severing the Head of the Shutendoji at Mt. Oe
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Yoshitoshi
The Yugao Chapter from the Tale of Genji
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Kyosai
The Husband's Beloved Red Hat, Shaking Like the Ghost of the Potato Jelly
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Kuniyoshi
Yatsuhashi: Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Teranishi Kanshin
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Kuniyoshi
Minamoto no Yoriie Watching Asahina Yoshihide Fighting Two Crocodiles at Kotsubo in Kamakura
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Kuniyoshi
The Former Emperor [Sutoku] Sends His Retainers to Rescue Tametomo
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Kuniyoshi
Kuzunoha Fox from Shinoda Forest and Abe no Yasuna
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