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THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 478

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

月百姿

Tsuki hyakushi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 10/1885–1892

10/1885–1892PUBLICATION DATES
101 entriesIN THIS CATALOGUE
TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI · 月岡芳年
The Courtesan Takao
#01 The Courtesan Takao
月百姿

About the Series

This page catalogs all known prints in Yoshitoshi's series 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi) 1885-1892''. Yoshitoshi's most known and important series. Features tales and scenes from both Japanese and Chinese culture. The moon is present, sometimes subtly, in each print. The stories and history behind each print and described beautifully in Stevenson's book which is the key reference.

Publication details
  • Dates: 1885 (10) - 1892
  • Size: Ōban
  • Signed: Yoshitoshi, Yoshitoshi giga
  • Seal: Yoshitoshi (various), Taiso (various), Yoshitoshi no in
  • Publishers: Akiyama Buemon
  • Engravers: Yamamoto (43), Nigouchi Enkatsu (43), Yoshihisa (3), Naoyama (2), Esen (1), unnamed (7)
Catalogue references and numbering

Print numbers retain the original page’s catalogue order and numbering. The original catalogue references are preserved below.

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 #478; 
	Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, "Beauty and Violence: Japanese
		Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892",
		Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992


where it appears as series #54 (pg. 72-75, 132-135); 
John Stevenson, " Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon ",
		San Francisco Graphic Society, Redmond, 1992 
 

 

We use the Keyes numbers to order the prints below.

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