This page catalogs all known prints in the Yoshitoshi series ‘Bidan musha hakkei (Eight Views from Fine Tales of Warriors)’. This is Yoshitoshi’s first triptych series, published early in his career. The subject matter in print #07, Fujiwara no Yasumasa, is an early attempt at what would later develop into one of his masterpiece works.
Technical details
- Dates: 08/1867 – 02/1868
- Size: Ōban triptych series
- Signed: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi hitsu
- Seal: Kaisai
- Publisher: Kinseidō
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 #200;
Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, " Beauty and Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892 ", Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992 where it appears as series #19, pages 43, 105
We use the B+V numbers to order the prints below, adding additional prints as we find them.
