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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Hiroshige
The Oi River between Suruga and Totomi Provinces
JPR-208550
Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Chosei-In on Mount Kenmoku in Sasanoto
JPR1-62154
Sadahide
Imitation of Daimyo Procession by Children
JPR-208040
Unsigned / Unknown Artist
Fudo Myoo with Seitaka and Kongara
JP1-63399
Toyokuni III
Female Daruma at Iwabuchi, between Yoshiwara and Kanbara
JPR-109890
Hokusai
Fuji with a Rocket (Roen [noroshi] no Fuji)
JP-111604