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THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 147

Biographies of Modern Men

近世侠義伝

Kinsei kyōgiden
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1865–1866

1865–1866PUBLICATION DATES
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TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI · 月岡芳年
Kasagawa Higezō subduing an ox
#1 Kasagawa Higezō subduing an ox
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About the Series

This page attempts to catalog all known prints in

Yoshitoshi's series 'Kinsei kyōgiden (近世 侠義傳 - Biographies of Modern Men)'.

It dates from quite early in Yoshitoshi's career, when he was about twenty-six, two decades before his well-known masterpieces such as his great series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (1885-1892), and "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts" (often called simply "Thirty-Six Ghosts") (1889-1892).

If you have either i) information about any errors on the page, ii) missing information about individual prints, or iii) better images than the ones below, please let us know.

Publication details
  • Dates: 1865 (10) - 1866 (4)
  • Size: Ōban
  • Signed: Kaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu
  • Seal: Kiri
  • Publisher: Iseki (of Manyō-dō store)
  • Block carver: Hori Ōta Tashichi
  • Printer: Kōrai
Catalogue references and numbering

Print numbers retain the source page’s Keyes / Beauty and Violence convention; the original concordance with Divine Dementia is preserved below.

One of the first attempts to enumerate this series was 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 #147; his listing missed one print (#6), and the numbers of all the others after that are off by one. The next listing was in: 
	Toni Liberthson, "Divine Dementia: The Woodblock Prints of Yoshitoshi",
	Shogun Gallery, Washington, 1981
where is appears in its entirety on pp. 3-12. It was also listed in: 
	Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, "Beauty and Violence: Japanese
		Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892",
		Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992
where it appears as series #13 (pg. 102).

We use the Keyes/B+V numbers for the table of prints images/information in the section below. A table at the bottom of the page gives a concordance between the B+V numbers, and the print numbers from Libertson.

Numbering concordance

B+V D-D D-D B+V
1 2 2 1
2 13 3 23
3 32 4 12
4 33 5 13
5 36 6 24
6 37 7 7
7 7 8 14
8 12 9 15
9 16 10 31
10 27 11 25
11 28 12 8
12 4 13 2
13 5 14 16
14 8 15 17
15 9 16 9
16 14 17 18
17 15 18 26
18 17 19 19
19 19 20 27
20 23 21 32
21 30 22 28
22 35 23 20
23 3 24 29
24 6 25 30
25 11 26 33
26 18 27 10
27 20 28 11
28 22 29 34
29 24 30 21
30 25 31 35
31 10 32 3
32 21 33 4
33 26 34 36
34 29 35 22
35 31 36 5
36 34 37 6
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