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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9800500

Artist

  • Hokusai
  • Kunisada
  • Kuniyoshi
  • Shunman
  • Sori III
  • Tamikuni
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist

Series

  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido

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

  • Painting
  • Woodblock Print

Size

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

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Sumo Wrestlers Koshigahama and Akitsukaze

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Shunman

Red Plum Blossoms

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Sekigahara: Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro

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Sekigahara: Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro

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Nihonbashi: Ashikaga Yorikane, Narukami Katsunosuke, and Ukiyo Tohei

Kuniyoshi

Nihonbashi: Ashikaga Yorikane, Narukami Katsunosuke, and Ukiyo Tohei

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Sumo Wrestlers Shiranui Dakuemon (center left), Tsurugizan Taniemon (center right), with Referee Shikimori Inosuke (left) and Judge Retired Wrestler Miyagino (right)

Kuniyoshi

Sumo Wrestlers Shiranui Dakuemon (center left), Tsurugizan Taniemon (center right), with Referee Shikimori Inosuke (left) and Judge Retired Wrestler Miyagino (right)

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Tobacco Pouch

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Sumo Wrestler Koyanagi Chokichi

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Sumo Wrestler Koyanagi Chokichi

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Arashi Kitsuzaburo as Sumo Wrestler Horikoma Chokichi

Tamikuni

Arashi Kitsuzaburo as Sumo Wrestler Horikoma Chokichi

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Sori III

Poem Cards

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