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

  • Yoshitora

Series

  • 100 Pictures by Kyosai
  • 100 Views of Mt. Fuji
  • 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
  • 47 Ronin (Yoshitora)
  • 53 Stations of the Tokaido (Hokusai)
  • 69 Stations of the Kisokaido
  • Biographies of Modern Heroes
  • Biographies of the Loyal Retainers
  • Chushingura (Hiroshige)
  • Famous Restaurants in Toto
  • Famous and Heroic Leaders
  • Heroes of the Taiheiki (Kuniyoshi)
  • Heroes of the Taiheiki (Yoshiiku)
  • Ogura 100 Poems by 100 Poets
  • Sketches by Yoshitoshi
  • Statues of the 47 Ronin
  • Ukiyo-e Parallels for the Tale of Genji

Subject

  • Autumn
  • Beauties (bijin-ga)
  • Flowers & Gardens
  • Ghosts & Demons (yokai)
  • Legends & History
  • Pastimes
  • Poets & Scholars
  • Rain
  • Spring
  • Warriors & Samurai
  • Waterscapes

Period

  • 1800 - 1868 (Edo)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print