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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Kunisada II (aka Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV)
Two Beauties in the Doorway
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Toyokuni III
Dog: Princess Fuse and Kanamari Daisuke
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Toyokuni III
Kabuki Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Tengu Boy Kiritaro
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Kunisada
Nakamura Shikan II Announces Farewell Performance
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Yoshiiku
Murota Kageyu-jikan Yoshitaka (Kuroda Yoshitaka)
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Hirosada
Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzo as Nikki Danjo
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Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebijuro IV as Hosokawa Katsumoto
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Yoshitoshi
The Yugao Chapter from the Tale of Genji
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Hiroshige & Toyokuni III
Morning Glory: Actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII and Asao Okuyama III
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