THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 12
Battle of Cats and Mice
猫鼠合戦
Byōso kassen
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1859
THE SERIES COLLECTION
BATTLE OF CATS AND MICE猫鼠合戦
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Cat struck in rice sack / The cat army advancesVIEW PRINT ↗#1Cat struck in rice sack / The cat army advances1859
Cats tempt mice with food/ Mice eats rice while cat sleepsVIEW PRINT ↗#2Cats tempt mice with food/ Mice eats rice while cat sleeps1859
Mouse army advances, general on a dog/ Cat kneelsVIEW PRINT ↗#3Mouse army advances, general on a dog/ Cat kneels1859Print numbers retain the original page’s catalogue order and numbering. The original catalogue references are preserved below.
About the Series
This page attempts to catalog all known prints in Yoshitoshi's series 'The Battle of the Cats and Mice ( Byōso kassen ) 1859'.
A playful chuban format series, featuring the antics of warring cats and mice. This is Yoshitoshi's first known series, published when he was just 20 years old. Yoshitoshi trys his hand here in illustrating a popular edo children's story, more of which can be seen here.
Publication details
- Dates: 1859
- Size: Ōban
- Signed: Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu
- Seals: Unread
- Publishers:
- Block carvers:
Catalogue references and numbering
Print numbers retain the original page’s catalogue order and numbering. The original catalogue references are preserved below.
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 #12.
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.