Yoshitoshi's 'A Celebration of Gallantry ( Isami no kotobuki )' (1865)



Introduction

 
This page attempts to catalog all known prints in
Yoshitoshi's
series 


 'A Celebration of Gallantry ( Isami no kotobuki ) 1865'.
 
 

 
Firemen were well respected in Yoshitoshi's time, their prestige equal to sumo wrestlers and actors. Fire brigades were well organised in all districts, and were often quite competitive with one another. This is the first series Yoshitoshi produced featuring firemen (see 


 Kaku daiku matoi

- Keyes #338 for another fireman series), and he produced several individual prints as well (see #59 in the 


 Yūbin hōchi shinbun series).
 


Technical details

 

 

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 #145.


 
	


 
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.
 

 



The Prints

 
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original that big), and are fairly compressed.
 


 
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those on slow links). Sometimes there is more than one, if our best-quality
image has issues (e.g. trimmed margins).
 
 







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Number
Date
Title (Kanji)
Title (Rōmaji)
Title (English)
Description


 





 
#1
08/1865
 

 
Unidentified actor as a tattooed fireman
 


 






#2
08/1865
 

 
Unidentified actor as a tattooed fireman

  


 





 
#3
08/1865
 

 
Unidentified actor as a tattooed fireman

  


 





 
#4
08/1865
 

 
 Kawarazaki Gonjūrō as a tattooed fireman 

  


 





 
#5
08/1865
 

 
Bandō Hikosaburō V as a tattooed fireman 

  


 





 
#6
08/1865
 


 
Unidentified actor as a tattooed fireman




 





 
#7
08/1865
 

 
Unidentified actor as a tattooed fireman

  


 

 


 
 

 

 
 


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