Books in English

• Jon R. Bourassa, "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892): Selected Works by the Meiji Ukiyo-e Master", College Art Gallery, New Paltz, 1981 - An slim exhibition catalog
• Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, "Beauty and Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892", Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992 - The standard reference work on Yoshitoshi
• Kaoru Kamimura, "Yoshitoshi 1839-1892", Kamimura Gallery, Toronto, 1987
• Roger S. Keyes, George Kuwayama, "The Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi: The Herbert R. Cole Collection", County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1980 - Catalogue of an early and influential exhibition
• Toni Liberthson, "Divine Dementia: The Woodblock Prints of Yoshitoshi", Shogun Gallery, Washington, 1981 - Dealer catalog containing small black and white images of many prints
• Shinichi Segi, (translated Alfred Birnbaum), "Yoshitoshi: The Splendid Decadent", Kodansha, Tokyo, 1985 - The first full-length treatment of Yoshitoshi published in English, and an excellent resource, but long out of print and very hard to find

Books in Japanese

• "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi", Kyoto Shinbunsha, Kyoto, 1976
• "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ten: Saigo no tensai ukiyo-e-shi (Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Exhibition: The Last Brilliant Ukiyo-e Artist)", Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, 1999 - Exhibition catalog with many mid-sized illustrations, some in colour but most black and white
• "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ten: Saigo no Tensai Ukiyo-e-shi (Yoshitoshi Exhibition: The Last Gifted Ukiyo-E Master)", Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, Tokyo, 1995
• Toshihiko Isao, "Yoshitoshi yokai hyakkei (Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Images of Ghosts and Demons)", Kokusho, Tokyo, 2001 - An odd work showing many of his more fantastical images
• "Saigo no ukiyo-e shi saishō no gekigaka Tsukioka Yoshitoshi no zemboten (A Representative Exhibition of the Works of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, the Last Master of Ukiyo-e and the First Theatrical Artist)", Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1977 - Likely the same item as the next
• Takahashi Seichiro, Segi Shinichi, "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi no zembo ten (The Full Story of Yoshitoshi)", Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1977 - Exhibition catalog with many illustrations, half in colour
• Shin'ichi Segi, "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi gashū (A Collection of Pictures by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi)", Kōdansha, Tokyo, 1978
• Shinji Sōya, et al., "Chi no bansan: Yoshitoshi no geijutsu (The Art of Yoshitoshi: A Banquet of Blood)", Banshō Shobō, Tokyo, 1971
• Yokoo Tadanori, "Yoshitoshi Kyokai no Kamigami (Yoshitoshi: The Idols of the Crazy Heart)", Ribun Shuppan, Tokyo, 1989
• Susugu Yoshida, Isao Toshihiko (editor), "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi no sekai (The World of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi)", Tokyo Shoseki, Tokyo, 1992 - Large work with many illustrations, many large, and all in colour

Books in other languages

• "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi", Ukiyo-e Galerie Herbert Egenolf, Dusseldorf, 1977 - Sale catalog
• Marco Fagioli, "Yoshitoshi e Yoshiiku: Esposizione Permanente", Giulio Giannini e figlio, Firenze, 1975
• Gottfried Ruetz, "Yoshitoshi Taiso, 1939-1892: Fünfzig Helden des Suikoden", Herausgeber und Verleger, München, 1987
• Wolfgang Schamoni, Willibald Netto, "Taiso Yoshitoshi 1839-1892: Ein Holzschnittmeister an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit", Museums für Ostasiatische Kunst der Stadt, Köln, 1971 - The catalog of the first major Yoshitoshi show in the West in modern times

Specific Series

• Elizabeth Danechild, Herbert Egenolf, "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892", Ukiyo-e Gallery, San Francisco, 1982
• Toshihiko Isao, "Yoshitoshi Yokai Hyakkei (Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Images of Ghosts and Demons)", Kokusho, Tokyo, 2001
• Tomomi Seki, Sarah Thompson, "100 Views of the Moon by Yoshitoshi Taiso 1839-1892", Ronin Gallery, New York, 1978
• Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Alfred H. Marks, Harue M. Summersgill, Amy Reigle Newland, Monika Hinkel, Kodaira Takashi, Ishigami Hidemi, "A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour", Hotei, Amsterday, 2004
- Covers the series 'Twenty-Four Hours at Shimbashi and Yanagibashi'
• John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon", San Francisco Graphic Society, Redmond, 1992 - The standard (and excellent) reference work on this series; large, full-page colour illustrations of each print, along with a length writeup of each one, explaining the image, and its meaning
• John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's Women: The Print Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso", Avery Press, 1986 - A similar work on this major series
• John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's Women: The Woodblock-Print Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso", University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1995 - A later, and identical, edition of the previous entry
• John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's Thirty-Six Ghosts", Weatherill, New York, 1983 - Another of Stevenson's gorgeous reference books, now out-of-print (alas), and quite scarce (and expensive)
• Tamara Tjardes, "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Japanese Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi", Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 2003

Some Yoshitoshi content

• Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, "The Age of Yoshitoshi: Japanese Prints From the Meiji and Taisho Periods; Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kamigata Prints; Recent Acquisitions (Catalog of the Collection of Japanese Prints, Rijksmuseum, Part V)", Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1990
• Narasaki Muneshige, et al., "Takahashi korekushon shinseimen wo hiraita Meiji ukiyo-e ten: Kiyochika, Yoshitoshi, Kunichika (An Exhibition of New Developments in Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period from the Takahashi Collection: Kiyochika, Yoshitoshi, Kunichika)", Riccar Art Museum, Tokyo, 1973 - Exhibition catalogue
• "Meiji no ukiyo-e: Yoshitoshi, Kiyochika, Kunichika (Meiji Ukiyo-e: Yoshitoshi, Kiyochika, Kunichika)", Mizu-e, Special Issue, No. 824, pp. 15-56, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, November, 1973

Articles

Articles in English

• C. H. Mitchell, "Yoshitoshi and Japanese Prints of the Meiji Era", Ukiyo-e Studies and Pleasures, pp. 13-18, Society of Japanese Arts and Crafts, The Hague, 1978
• Yone Noguchi, "The Last Master of the Ukiyoye School", Transactions of the Japan Society, Vol. 12, London, 1914
• John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi: Ukiyo-e's Last Star", Arts of Asia, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 88-96, 1979

Articles in Japanese

• "Saigo no ukiyoe shi: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (The Last Ukiyo-e Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi)", Geijutsu Seikatsu, Vol. 29, No. 5, Issue 321, pp. 7-35, Geijutsu Seikatsu Sha, May, 1976
• "Ayaui ukiyo-e-shi: Chimamire Yoshitoshi, sanjo (The Dangerous Ukiyo-e Artist: Come and see Bloody Yoshitoshi)", Geijutsu Shincho, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 3-69, Shinchosha, September, 1994
• Akiyuji Nosaka, Tadanori Yokō, Tadayasu Sakai, "Yoshitoshi", Mizu-e, No. 869, pp. 5-49, Bitsu Shuppan Sha, August, 1977
• Kuson Ōmagiri, "Yoshitoshi to Maboroshidayū (Yoshitoshi and Maboroshidayū)", Ukiyo-e shi, Nos. 14-16, 1930
• Hashimoto Osamu, Matsuda Osamu, Kasu Sanpei, "Yoshitoshi: Kyoki no kozo (Yoshitoshi: Structure of Madness)", Bijutsu Techo, Vol. 26, Issue 387, pp. 1-32, 69-111, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, November, 1974
• Segi Shinichi, "Yoshitoshi no jitsuzo to kyozo (Truth and Misconceptions about Yoshitoshi)", Nippon Bijutsu, No. 8, 1977
• Shinji Sōya, "Nenpu ni yoro Taiso Yoshitoshi den (Taiso Yoshitoshi: A Chronology of His Life and Works)", Kikan Ukiyo-e, No. 36, pp. 19-14, 1969
• Shinji Sōya, "Yoshitoshi o meguru hi to tsuki no kisetsu: Yoshitoshi kenkyu no doki to tenkai (The Seasons of Sun and Moon Surrounding Yoshitoshi: Current Yoshitoshi Studies)", Kikan Ukiyo-e, Vol. 17, No. 3, Issue 75, pp. 8-30, Gabundo, 1978
• Kodō Yamanaka, "Yoshitoshi nishiki-e nenpyo (A Chronology of Yoshitoshi's colour woodblock prints)", Ukiyo-e shi, Nos. 11-12, 1929
• Kodō Yamanaka, "Yoshitoshi den biko (Note on the Life of Yoshitoshi), Ukiyo-e shi, Nos. 15, 17-18, 20-26, 28-32, 1930-1931
• Teruji Yoshida, "Yoshitoshi no ketsu no e to bijin-e (Yoshitoshi's Bloody Pictures and Pictures of Women)", Ukiyo-e, No. 36, pp. 26-28, 1969

Theses

• Thomas H. Kaasa, "Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892): A Preliminary Study of a Meiji Ukiyoe Artist", University of Washington, 1964
• Roger S. Keyes, "Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892 (Volumes I and II)", Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, Cinncinnati, 1982 - The principal work on Yoshitoshi