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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Artist

  • Kuniyoshi
  • Toyokuni III
  • Yoshitoshi

Series

  • 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Biographies of Modern Heroes

Subject

  • Actors & Theater
  • Animals & Fish
  • Architectural
  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Birds
  • Bridges
  • Calligraphy
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Children
  • 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
  • Summer
  • Sumo
  • Surimono
  • Tattoo
  • Tokaido
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterfalls and Rapids
  • Waterscapes
  • Winter
  • Yokohama-e & Nagasaki-e

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Small (ie. Chuban)
  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Urawa: Fishseller Danshichi

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Tsuchinoto: Danshichi Kurobei and Mikawaya Giheiji

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Tsuchinoto: Danshichi Kurobei and Mikawaya Giheiji

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The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon

Yoshitoshi

The Wrestler Konjin Chogoro Throwing a Green Demon

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Tanmei Jiro Gen Shogo (Ruan Xiaowu)

Kuniyoshi

Tanmei Jiro Gen Shogo (Ruan Xiaowu)

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Kirishima Matsugoro

Yoshitoshi

Kirishima Matsugoro

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Ichimura Uzaemon as Kiyotaki no Sashichi

Toyokuni III

Ichimura Uzaemon as Kiyotaki no Sashichi

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Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Otokodate Yami no Yoichiro

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Otokodate Yami no Yoichiro

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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Beisho as Otokodate Ude no Kisaburo

Toyokuni III

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Beisho as Otokodate Ude no Kisaburo

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Konkoryu Rishun (LI Jun)

Kuniyoshi

Konkoryu Rishun (LI Jun)

JPR-84945

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Rori Hakucho Chojun (Zhang Shun)

Kuniyoshi

Rori Hakucho Chojun (Zhang Shun)

JPR-84918

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