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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Toyokuni III
Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro
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Kuniyoshi
The Battle at the Eastern Temple, Rokuhara
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon
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Toyokuni III
Tsuchinoe: Jiraiya and Arashi Yuminosuke
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Kunichika
Springtime Haze at the Edo Theater: Kabuki Actors Bando Hikosaburo (R) Nakamura Shikan (C), and Bando Mitsugoro (L)
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Kuniyoshi
The Last Stand of the Kusunoki Clan at Shijo Nawate
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Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Kabuki Actors Bando Mitsugoro VI as Gosuke's Wife (Nyobo) Odai, Ichimura Kakitsu IV as the Otokodate Nozarashi Gosuke, and Sawamura Tossho II in a Female Role
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Kuniyoshi
Raiko Severing the Head of the Shutendoji at Mt. Oe
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Kuniyoshi
Warabi: Inuyama Dosetsu Seated Amid Flames with Magic Pine in His Mouth
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Kuniyoshi
Portrait of Daruma by Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tossho II as Hiranoya Kojiro
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Kunisada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kagekiyo
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V as Banzuiin Chobei
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Toyokuni III
Poem by Kotaikogu no Tayu Shunzei: Akazawa Junai and Otonai
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Female Kansuke
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Toyokuni III
Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke
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