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
Complete Album: Mirror of the True Loyalty of Each of the Faithful Retainers
JP-209504
Kuniyoshi
Asakura Togo in Shomosa and Kohagi, Wife of Oguri, in Hitachi
JPR1-55463
Kuniyoshi
Higuchi Jiro (Kanemitsu) Fighting a Giant Monkey
JP-211112
Hiroshige
Act XI, Scene III: The Capture of Moronao
JPR-211289
Yoshitora
COMPLETE SERIES: The Story of the Faithful Samurai in The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers
JPR-211142
Kuniyoshi
Seba: Musashibo Benkei and Tosabo Shoshun
JP-210627
Yoshitsuya
Raising Wind and Rain Competition between Dragon and Tiger
JPR-207798
Mimura, Seizan
Father and Son United: Monkeys Offering Food to a Courtier
JPR-77561
Kuniyoshi
Abe no Yasuchika Exorcizing the Fox-woman Tamamo no Mae
JPR-211075
Kuniyoshi
Sanada Yoichi Yoshitada and Matano Goro Kagehisa
JPR-211073
Eisen
Pictures of Valiant Warriors (Buyu sakigake zue), Volume 2
JPR-211118
Kuniyoshi
The Ghost of Nitta Yoshioki on a White Horse Attacking His Murderer Takezawa
JPR-211072