This page catalogs all known prints in the Yoshitoshi series ‘Imayō hiiki azuma-e (今様 贔屓 東繪, although sometimes 絵 is substituted for the archaic 繪; Modern Celebrities of the East)’. This is a rarely seen early kabuki series, and the total number of prints created is unknown. We catalog the two known prints below. Please help us discover additional prints!
Technical details
- Dates: 7/1860
- Size: Oban series
- Signed: Gyokuō Yoshitoshi hitsu
- Seal: Gyokuō
- Publishers: Kadokin
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 #35;
Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, "Beauty and Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892 ", Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992
where it appears as series #5, page 97.
We use the Keyes numbers to order the prints below, and will add them as we discover more.
