A playful chuban format series, featuring the antics of warring cats and mice. This is Yoshitoshi’s first known series, published when he was just 20 years old. Yoshitoshi trys his hand here in illustrating a popular edo children’s story, more of which can be seen here.
Previous cataloguings
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 #12.
This page (and list) is not necessarily complete; the series is not well documented, and there may be yet other prints which have not yet come to our attention. If you know of any prints from this series which aren’t listed here, or have either i) information about any errors on the page, ii) better images than the ones below, or iii) missing information about individual prints (e.g. publisher, exact date) please let us know.
