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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Kuniyoshi
The Battle at the Eastern Temple, Rokuhara
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Kuniyoshi
The Last Stand of the Kusunoki Clan at Shijo Nawate
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Hiroshige
Tsuchiyama: Suzuka Mountains and Suzuka River
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Kuniyoshi
Raiko Severing the Head of the Shutendoji at Mt. Oe
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Kuniyoshi
Courtesan Nanaoka of the Sugata-ebi House, 1 Chome, Kyomachi
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Kuniyoshi
Warabi: Inuyama Dosetsu Seated Amid Flames with Magic Pine in His Mouth
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Bando Shuka I as Shiranui Daijin
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actors Seki Sanjuro III as Iyami Kincho, and Bando Hikosaburo V as Iyami Kingoro
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Kuniyoshi
Characters of The Tale of the Soga Brothers in the Guise of the Seven Lucky Gods
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