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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Hiroshige
Mutsu Province, View of Matsushima, Sight Map from Mount Tomi
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Hiroshige
Sagami Province, Enoshima, The Entrance to the Caves
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Hiroshige
Satsuma Province, Bo Bay, The Two-sword Rocks
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Hiroshige
Hyuga Province, Aburatsu Port, Obi Oshima
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Hiroshige
Chikugo Province, The Currents Around the Weir
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Hiroshige
Chikuzen Province, Hakozaki, Umi-no-Nakamichi
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Hiroshige
Aki Province, Itsukushima, Depiction of a Festival
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Hiroshige
Bizen Province, Tanokuchi Coast, Yugasan Torii
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Hiroshige
Iwami Province, Mount Takatsu, Salt Beach
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