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

  • Hirosada
  • Kiyomoto II
  • Kunichika
  • Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Toyokuni III

Series

  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Kuniyoshi)
  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido

Subject

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

Period

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

Medium

  • Painting
  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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General Tamura and the Demon of Suzuka Mountain in Tsuchiyama

Kuniyoshi

General Tamura and the Demon of Suzuka Mountain in Tsuchiyama

JP1-63332

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Takiyasha and Skeleton Specter in the Ruined Palace at Soma

Kuniyoshi

Takiyasha and Skeleton Specter in the Ruined Palace at Soma

JP-208785

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Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Endo Musha: Poem by Fujiwara no Nakafumi

Toyokuni III

Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Endo Musha: Poem by Fujiwara no Nakafumi

JP5492

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Chapter 7: Momijinoga

Toyokuni III

Chapter 7: Momijinoga

JP-110244

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The Earth Spider Conjures Goblins at the Mansion of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko)

Kuniyoshi

The Earth Spider Conjures Goblins at the Mansion of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko)

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Shi Jin, the Nine-dragon Tatttoo (Kyumonryu Shishin)

Kuniyoshi

Shi Jin, the Nine-dragon Tatttoo (Kyumonryu Shishin)

JPR-111864

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Uzaemon as Benten-kozo Kikunosuke

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Uzaemon as Benten-kozo Kikunosuke

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Nakamura Nakazo II as Toneri Matsuomaru

Toyokuni III

Nakamura Nakazo II as Toneri Matsuomaru

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Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Odera Shobei (R), Ichikawa Kodanji IV (with tattoo arm) as Oniazami Seikichi (C), Iwai Kumezaburo III as Izayoi Osayo (L)

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Odera Shobei (R), Ichikawa Kodanji IV (with tattoo arm) as Oniazami Seikichi (C), Iwai Kumezaburo III as Izayoi Osayo (L)

JPR-104030

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