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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Hokusai
Picture Book of Chinese and Japanese Warriors (Wakan Ehon sakigake shohen)
JPR-209021
Kuniyoshi
The Former Emperor [Sutoku] Sends His Retainers to Rescue Tametomo
JPR-208795
Kuniyoshi
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Jiraiya with a Monster Toad
JPR-208831
Yoshitora
The Syllable Ri: Kaiga Yazaemon Fujiwara no Tomonobu
JPR-208647
Yoshitora
Minamoto no Yoshitsune Crossing the Sea to Ezo
JPR1-52052
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
Benkei Dragging Off the Great Bell of Miidera
JP-207883
Kuniyoshi
The Earth Spider Conjures Goblins at the Mansion of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko)
JP-88250
Kuniyoshi
Kenshin Leading Furious Charge into the Takeda Troops at the Great Battle of Kawanakajima
JP1504
Kuniyoshi
Koman Swimming across Lake Biwa with Minamoto Banner Attacked by Sanemori (Taira Clan)
JPR-85075
Kuniyoshi
Miyamoto Musashi Knocking Down Shirakura Dengoemon and His Men with Broken Beam
JPR-85112
Kuniyoshi
Musashibo Benkei and Minamoto no Ushiwakamaru on Gojo Bridge
JPR-87605