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
Moriyama: Zen Master Bodhidharma (Daruma)
JPR-210701
Hiroshige
Enjoying the Evening Cool at Ryogoku Bridge
JPR-210442
Kyosai
A Bell Hanging from a Lantern, Three People Together are as Wise as the Bodhisattva Monju
JP-208815
Hiroshige
Year-end Market at Kinryuzan Temple, Asakusa
JPR5514
Toyokuni III
Origin of the Three Shrines at Miyatogawa
JPR-208601
Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Chosei-In on Mount Kenmoku in Sasanoto
JPR1-62154
Toyokuni III
Female Daruma at Iwabuchi, between Yoshiwara and Kanbara
JPR-109890