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
The Former Emperor [Sutoku] Sends His Retainers to Rescue Tametomo
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Kuniyoshi
The Earth Spider Conjures Goblins at the Mansion of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko)
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Kuniyoshi
Kuzunoha Fox from Shinoda Forest and Abe no Yasuna
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Kuniyoshi
Shi Jin, the Nine-dragon Tatttoo (Kyumonryu Shishin)
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Kuniyoshi
Last Stand of Kusunoki Clan at Shijo-Nawate
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Yoshitoshi
The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon
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Kuniyoshi
Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Asayama Tetsuzan (L), Ichikawa Kodanji VI as Ghost of Okiku (C) and Bando Shuka as Hatsushiba (R)
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Kunisada
Memorial Portrait of Sumo Wrestler Hidoshi Rikiya II (1799-1836) Defeating the King of Hell and Two Demons
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Uzaemon as Benten-kozo Kikunosuke
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