Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
Subject: Musha-e (Warrior print); “Yoshitoshi Musha Burui” (Yoshitoshi’s Courageous Warriors): Young Hino Wakamaru (after revenging his father’s death) and the
“yamabushi” (mountain priest) escaping from Sado Island”, #14 in this series of 33.
Signature: “Yoshitoshi hitsu” (from the brush of Yoshitoshi).
Artist’s Seal: Taiso.
Engraver: Horikou Muneoka.
Publisher: Tsunajima Kanekichi.
Date: Meiji 18 (1885.)
Format: oban tate-e, H.13.125 x W. 8.75 ...click for details
Suzaku Gate Moon - Hakuga Sammi
(Suzakumon no tsuki - Hakuga Sammi).
Printed: 1st day. 2nd month. 1886
Engraver: Yamamoto
Signature: Yoshitoshi.
Seal: Yoshitoshi no in.
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon
Condition: Very Good colors & impression, full margins, "karazuri" embossing on cartouche & Hakuga's hakama (pantaloons).
H. 13 x W. 8.75".
Minamoto no Hiromasa (918-980,) was also known as Hakuga Sammi. He was the grandson of Emperor Daigo, and a famous music ...click for details
Gravemarker Moon
(Sotouba no tsuki).
Printed: 3.1886
Engraver: Yamamoto
Signature & Seal: Yositoshi
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon.
Condition: Very Good colors and impression, full margins. "karazuri" embossing on Ono no Komachi's robes.
Format: Oban tate-e: H.13 x W. 8.75".
Ono no Komachi was a famous beauty and poetess of the 9th century. Episodes from her life became the basis of a set of seven Noh plays, the last group called Sotouba Komachi, “Gravemarker Koma ...click for details
Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892.
Title: The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro (yamashiro ogurusu no tsuki).
Series: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
(tsuki hyaku shi).
Signature: Yoshitoshi.
Artist's Seal: Taiso.
Engraver's Seal: Enkatsu.
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon.
Date: Meiji 19 (1886), 2nd month, 1st day.
Format: oban tate-e, (Image) H.13 x W.8.875".
Condition: Very good colors and impression. Four minor worm holes in margin (2 top, 2 bottom,) 2 tiny dots of red ink in ...click for details
Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
Subject: Musha-e (Warrior print); “Yoshitoshi Musha Burui” (Yoshitoshi’s Courageous Warriors): kurou [9th son] hangan Minamoto Yoshitsune and Musashibou Benkei under a cherry tree )#15 in this series of 33.
Signature: “Yoshitoshi hitsu” (from the brush of Yoshitoshi).
Artist’s Seal: Taiso.
Engraver: Horikou Muneoka.
Publisher: Tsunajima Kanekichi.
Date: 1886.
Format: oban tate-e, H.13 x W. 8.75".
Condition: Very good colors with good impressi ...click for details
The Moon Through a Crumbling Window.
(Hasou no Tsuki).
Printed: 1st day. 2nd month. 1886.
Engraver: Yamamoto.
Signature: Yoshitoshi.
Seal: Yoshitoshi no in.
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon.
Format: Oban tate-e: H.13 x W. 8.75".
Condition: Good Impression & Colors. Light soiling to bottom of print. Retains album backing. Margins trimmed, and left margin covered by album attachment.
Images of Bodhidharma (Daruma in Japanese,) patriarch of Zen Buddhism, have come to epito ...click for details
Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).
Subject: “Kyoudou Risshiki” (Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition), Fujiwara Arihira Walking in the Rain. Text by Eisai. No. 9 in a series of 52.
Signature: “taiso Yoshitoshi”.
Artist’s Seal: Taiso.
Engraver: Miyamoto?
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi.
Date: Meiji 18 (1885), 12th month (December,) 25th day.
Format: oban tate-e with printed borders, H.12.5 x W.8.25"(including borders: 13.5 x 9.125").
Condition: Very good colors and impression, ...click for details
Chikubushima Moon - Tsunemasa
(Chikubushima no Tsuki - Tsunemasa).
Printed: 3.1886.
Engraver: Yamamoto.
Signature: Yoshitoshi.
Seal: Taiso.
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon.
Format: Oban tate-e. H. 12.75 x W. 8.75".
Condition: Very Good impression and colors. Retains albimbacking. No condition issues to note.
This print is also set in the battle between the Taira and the Minamoto clans. One of the Taira leaders, Taira no Tsunemasa was a notable warrior and a fine musician, a c ...click for details
Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861).
Subject: Yakusha-e (kabuki actor print), Iwai Tojaku (1776-1847) as Osode.
Signature: ichiyuusai Kuniyoshi-ga.
Publisher: Joushuu-ya Kinzou.
Date: ca. 1834-1843.
Censor Seal: kiwame (approved).
Format: oban tate-e, H.14.375 x W.10".
Condition: Very good colors and impression, wormage hole on upper left; small holes on lower left, top middle & right; small tear on mid-right edge of paper.
Iwai Tojaku - Iwai Hanshiro V - Iwai Kumesaburo I w ...click for details
The Moon of Yamaki Mansion - Kagekado
(Yamaki Yakata no Tsuki - Kagekado).
Printed: 3.1886.
Engraver: Enkatsu.
Signature: Yoshitoshi.
Seal: Taiso.
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon.
Format: Oban tate-e. H.12.75 x W. 8.75".
Condition: Good Impression and colors. Some soiling, including an ink spot (from original printing?) on the lower portion of print. Slight margin trimming. "Karazuri" embossing on Kagekado's clothing and cartouche. Faux woodgrain on panel behind Kage ...click for details
