Yoshitoshi Taiso

Published by Akiyama. Signed: Oju Taiso Yoshitoshi.

Splashing through a beautiful lotus grove, Sanada Saemon-no-jô Yukimura holds his gun at the ready. The contrast between the lush background flowers and foliage and the intensity of ...

Here Yoshitoshi presents an unusual take on the famous story of the night attack of the 47 Ronin that takes place on a moonlit night in the snow. The young fighter Kobayashi Heihachi...

Series: New selection of eastern brocade pictures, Plate 23 Publisher: Tsunajima Kanekichi This scene depicts a wrestler walking to a tournament, who happens upon a pretty girl. He...

Here the ruthless Taira no Kiyomori sees the skulls of the enemies that he had had killed staring at him in a snowy garden at his palace in Fukuhara. Even the stone lantern bears emp...

Signed: Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga; Seal: Kiri Series: The Scenic Places of the Tokaido (Tokaido Meisho no Uchi) Format Japanese: Oban

Full Title: January: Hama of Yanagibashi Returning on a Boat from Myogi Shrine on First Hare Day Signed: oju Yoshitoshi hitsu From the series: "Pride of Tokyo's Twelve Months" (Tok...

The spirit of the the beauty Sakurahime possessing the priest Seigen. In one version of the popular folk tale, the abbot and the young beauty fall in love, become inseparable, and th...

Inga Kozô Rokunosuke wipes the blood from his sword. He looks up at the cloud-covered full moon, his expression more self-satisfied than remorseful. Before him on the steps we see th...

Oniwaka (the young Benkei) with his knife drawn behind him and mind filled with revenge, intently stalks the monster carp that devoured his mother. From the series "Thirty-six Ghost...

These vertical diptychs are considered some of Yoshitoshi's strongest designs, as he excelled at using this challenging format to its greatest advantage. The complete title of this d...

A tsujigimi glances up at the moon, the white of her face echoing the white face of moon, both partially obscured. This lower class streetwalker is sympathetically portrayed as beaut...

The enchanting courtesan Kurozome appears as the magical spirit of the cherry tree. She manifests in the Kabuki play “Tsumoru Koi no Seki no To” to thwart the evil plans of Lord Kuro...

Sagiike Heikuro looks up past some hydrangea bushes as the reflection of a huge snake head appears beneath him in the water beneath an overhanging rock. Heikurô does not seem unduly ...

“Looking capable: the apperance of a Kyoto waitress in the Meiji Era.” (Okigatsuki-so: Meiji nenkan saikyo nakai no fuzoku.) A fixer from a Kyoto geisha house attends to a lantern by...

View of the Death in Battle by Suicide of Katsuyori at Mount Temmoku. (Katsuyori ni oite Temmokuzan toguru uchijini zu). Grim scene of the losing side of a battle, with the remaining...

The fire was a common occurrence in the crowded city of Edo, and the flames were known as Edo no hana, “Flowers of Edo.” Troops of firemen were organized to fight the conflagrations ...

Preliminary drawing for either a woodcut or a woodcut illustration. Done in a gestural style in red ink and then finished with great draftsmanship in black ink. Example of the ar...

Zen-no-jo, a filial child from Shinano Province. Emma, the King of Hell and his minions lean over the young boy and show in a magical mirror his father’s crimes in a former life. The...

Famous scene of the feminine Yoshitsune as he meets Benkei on Gojo Bridge in Kyoto. We see a bronze-colored moon rising as Benkei seems to have been thwarted by Yoshitsune throwing h...

Signed: Yoshitoshi; Seal: Taiso (Shimmer sumo toso no zu) Series: New selection of eastern brocade pictures, Plate 8 Publisher: Tsunajima Kanekichi Engraver: Enkatsu ...

The Ghost of Seigen Haunting Sakurahime Color woodcut, May 1889 Signed: Yoshitoshi; seal: taiso, lower right (see photo) Plate 5 from the series "New Forms of the Thirty-six Ghosts" ...

Reference: Beauty and Violence, 27.16 TAISO YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) Taiso Yoshitoshi was born in the city of Edo (now Tokyo) just before Japan’s violent transformation from a mediev...

Kiyohime emerging from the Hidakagawa (River) after transforming herself into a serpent in order to cross the river to follow her crush, a monk named Anchin. She emerges from the wat...

Signed: Yoshitoshi ga; Seal: Yoshitoshi no in Created: January 1886 Series: 100 Aspects of the Moon Publisher: Akiyama Buemon Provenance: The Mitzie Verne Collection, Cleveland, ...

"One of the main characters of the kabuki play Meiboku Sendai hagi (The Disputed Succession)" Signed: Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga (in gourd shaped cartouche) Format: oban Publisher: Da...

Oniwaka (the young Benkei) with his knife drawn behind him and mind filled with revenge, intently stalks the monster carp that devoured his mother. From the series "Thirty-six Ghost...

Tasty: The Appearance of a Prostitute during the Kaei Era Plate 17 from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Customs and Manners" (Fuzoku Sanjuniso) Format: Oban Publisher: Tsunashima K...

A courtesan in Heian period style looks over the prow of her watercraft, looking ahead through the famous torii of Miyajima (Itsukushima) Shrine. She will be dancing in the ceremonie...

Series: One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Plate 33 (Tsuki hyakushi) Publisher: Akiyama Buemon Format: Oban Reference: Stevenson 33

From a famous episode of the Chinese epic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, we see Cao Cao crossing the Yangzi river the evening before the decisive “Battle of the Red Cliffs” in thir...

Performance in the imperial palace is an original artwork realized by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (also named Taiso Yoshitoshi; 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) in 1863.

Shunga is an original modern artwork realized by Katsukawa Schuncho (1726 – 1793) in the half of the 18th Century. Erotic scene from the series "Koshuko zue juni ko". A courtesan ...

A young apprentice geisha from Kyoto poses before a gold leaf screen. She is both alluring and slightly distant at the same time, not an easy balance for an artist to convey. This p...

Shunga, Love plays is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Good print with gold. Backed, restored wormholes and missing oarts, glued at upper ...

Shunga is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865). Making love in the winter on a terrace, behind the couple stone sculpture of the Jizo-Bosatsu. ...

Original Japanese Woodblock print by Hokusai Katsushika, ???? '1760-1849' Color woodblock print on paper by Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 to 1849, a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker of the la...

This print is from a highly regarded series by the Edo woodblock artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi: in the period, there were at times prohibitions in depicting actors in the woodblock format...

Japanese Woodblock print of a Biensennyo-ko a powder face women. Behind the women is a framed cityscape. The print is possibly from the series "Eight Favorite Things in the Modern Wo...

Original woodblock work by " The Geisha" by Kikukawa Eizan 1787-1867, publisher Ezakiya Kichibe. Dimension: Image 8.75" x 13.5": with frame 15.5" x 20.5", Professional Framing with ...