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

  • Kuniyoshi

Series

  • 100 Poems Explained by the Nurse
  • 100 Poems by 100 Poets (Kuniyoshi)
  • 100 Views of Mt. Fuji
  • 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
  • 47 Ronin (Yoshitora)
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Kuniyoshi)
  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Biographies of the Loyal Retainers
  • Chushingura (Hiroshige)
  • Heroes of the Taiheiki (Kuniyoshi)
  • Heroes of the Taiheiki (Yoshiiku)
  • Ogura 100 Poems by 100 Poets
  • Sketches by Yoshitoshi
  • The 53 Stations by Two Brushes

Subject

  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Legends & History
  • Manga & Bookplates
  • Moon & Night
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Rain
  • Rituals & Beliefs
  • Tattoo
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Shi Qian, the Flea on the Drum (Kojoso Jisen)

Kuniyoshi

Shi Qian, the Flea on the Drum (Kojoso Jisen)

JPR-103996

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Li Kui, the Black Whirlwind, also Iron Ox (Kokusenpu Riki, Ichimei Ritetsugyu)

Kuniyoshi

Li Kui, the Black Whirlwind, also Iron Ox (Kokusenpu Riki, Ichimei Ritetsugyu)

JPR5031

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Du Qian, the Sky Toucher (Mochakuten Tosen)

Kuniyoshi

Du Qian, the Sky Toucher (Mochakuten Tosen)

JPR-209553

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Hua Rong (Shoriko Kaei)

Kuniyoshi

Hua Rong (Shoriko Kaei)

JPR-209552

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