This page catalogs prints in Yoshitoshi’s series ‘Setsugekka no uchi (Snow, moon, and flowers)’.
This is a series of half-length portraits of actors, which was executed by Yoshitoshi near the end of his life. Considered among Yoshitoshi’s best kabuki prints.
Technical details
Dates: 8/1890
Size: Oban triptych
Signed: Yoshitoshi ga
Seal: Yoshitoshi, Taiso
Publishers: Akiyama Buemon
Engraver: Hori Yu
Calligraphy: Katsurakaen Keika
Previous cataloguings
Listed in Keyes’ thesis:
Roger. S. Keyes, “Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and
Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892“,
Cinncinnati, 1982
where it appears as series #517, and:
Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, “Beauty and Violence: Japanese
Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892“,
Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992
as series #69 (page 91, 146).
We use the Keyes numbers to order the prints below.
