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

  • Eisen
  • Eizan
  • Hirosada
  • Hiroshige
  • Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
  • Hokkei
  • Hokusai
  • Kunichika
  • Kunimori II
  • Kunisada
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Shunsen
  • Toyokuni III
  • Utamaro
  • Yoshitoshi
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 100 Famous Views of Edo
  • 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
  • 36 Views of Mt. Fuji (Hiroshige)
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Hokusai)
  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Biographies of Modern Heroes
  • Hokusai Manga
  • The 53 Stations by Two Brushes

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)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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First Time: Young Girl and Her Music Teacher

Eizan

First Time: Young Girl and Her Music Teacher

JP2171

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The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon

Yoshitoshi

The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon

JP-104239

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Tanmei Jiro Gen Shogo (Ruan Xiaowu)

Kuniyoshi

Tanmei Jiro Gen Shogo (Ruan Xiaowu)

JPR-84929

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Children's Accomplishments: The Four Arts

Kunisada

Children's Accomplishments: The Four Arts

JP-209372

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Uzaemon as Benten-kozo Kikunosuke

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Uzaemon as Benten-kozo Kikunosuke

JP-94584

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Kirishima Matsugoro

Yoshitoshi

Kirishima Matsugoro

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Ichimura Uzaemon as Kiyotaki no Sashichi

Toyokuni III

Ichimura Uzaemon as Kiyotaki no Sashichi

JP6365

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Bando Takesaburo I as Kokura-an Chokichi and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Moremore Yoshizo

Toyokuni III

Bando Takesaburo I as Kokura-an Chokichi and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Moremore Yoshizo

JPR-104022

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New Year's Day Dance

Shunsen

New Year's Day Dance

JPR5883

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Otokodate Yami no Yoichiro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Otokodate Yami no Yoichiro

JP-94588

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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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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Beisho as Otokodate Ude no Kisaburo

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Beisho as Otokodate Ude no Kisaburo

JP-94586

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Konkoryu Rishun (LI Jun)

Kuniyoshi

Konkoryu Rishun (LI Jun)

JPR-84945

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Rori Hakucho Chojun (Zhang Shun)

Kuniyoshi

Rori Hakucho Chojun (Zhang Shun)

JPR-84918

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