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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Toyokuni III
Title Page: Legend of the Loyal Retainers
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Yoshitoshi
Warrior Mizushima Kamon Slashing an Assailant
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Hiroshige
Kawachi Province, Mount Otaka in Hirakata
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Kuniyoshi
Nitta Shiro Tadatsune Encounters the Goddess of Mount Fuji
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Shigenobu II
Courtesan Watching Attendant Play with Pet Mouse
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Toyokuni I
Kabuki Actor Matsumoto Koshiro V as Oshima Danshichi
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Hiroshige
Kazusa Province, Yazashi Bay, Common name: Kujukuri
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Hiroshige
Tsushima Province, A Fine Evening on the Coast
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Kuniyoshi
Nihonbashi: Ashikaga Yorikane, Narukami Katsunosuke, and Ukiyo Tohei
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Hiroshige
Echizen Province, Tsuruga, Kehi Pine Grove
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Kunichika
Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Ishikawa Goemon
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Toyokuni III
Rabbit: Taira Taro Yoshikado and Iga no Jutaro
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