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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Hokusai
Beauty with Lantern Looking at Plum Blossoms in Snow
JPR5672
Hiroshige
Complete Untitled Series of Famous Places in Various Provinces
JP-207873
Hokusai
Numazu: Travelers Looking at Sengan Waterway
JP1-37263
Kuniyoshi
Night Rain at Kurama: Onzoshi Ushiwaka Maru Holding His Straw Hat under Water
JPR-111838
Kuniyoshi
Returning Boats at Hakata: The Pirate Kezori Kuemon in European Clothes
JPR-111840