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.
16 Products
Kunisada
Sumo Wrestlers Iwatoyama (Mt. Iwato) and Hiodoshi (Crimson Threat)
JPR-106528
Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler
JP-208696
Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of Sumo Wrestler Shiranui Dakuemon
JP-208695
Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler Hidenoyama Raigoro
JP-208694
Kunisada
A Beauty Holding a Puppet of a Sumo Wrestler Arauma Kichigoro
JP-208693
Kuniyoshi
Sekigahara: Sumo Wrestlers Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro
JPR-78816
Kuniyoshi
Chapter XXIII, Hatsune: Rokusuke from Ketani Village; Vassal for War Commander Kato Kiyomasa in the Sengoku Period
JPR-78824
Toyokuni III
Sumo Wrestlers on the Ring for Entering Ceremony
JP1-75962
Yoshitoshi
The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon
JP-104239
Kunisada
The Great Sumo Wrestling between Momotaro and Kaidomaru
JP-104233
Kunisada
Memorial Portrait of Sumo Wrestler Hidoshi Rikiya II (1799-1836) Defeating the King of Hell and Two Demons
JP-94573
Hokusai
Fuji at Akazawa: Matano Goro Kunihisa and Kawazu no Saburo Sukeyasu
JP-112028
Hidematsu
The Great Kanjin Sumo: High Ranking Sumo Wrestlers Line Up Towards the Ring
JP-94558
Toyokuni III
Sumo Wrestler Tsuneyama Goroji: 7th Tatsutagawa House (Oyakata)
JP-94569