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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Seba: Musashibo Benkei and Tosabo Shoshun
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Sekigahara: Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro
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Nojiri: Hirai Yasumasa and Hakamadare Yasusuke
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Kutsukake: Zhang Liang (Choryo) and the Yellow Stone Lord (Kosekiko)
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Nihonbashi: Ashikaga Yorikane, Narukami Katsunosuke, and Ukiyo Tohei
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Moriyama: Zen Master Bodhidharma (Daruma)
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Banba: Utanosuke and Matabei the Stutterer
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