THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 149
Famous Fights Between Brave Men
英名組討揃
Eimei kumiuchi zoroi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1865–1866
THE SERIES COLLECTION
FAMOUS FIGHTS BETWEEN BRAVE MEN英名組討揃
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Tomoe Gozen, fighting with Uchida SaburōVIEW PRINT ↗#1Tomoe Gozen, fighting with Uchida Saburō1865/11
Tsukushima Masamori (1561 - 1624) and Kyōsokabe Yatarō tumbling down a cliffVIEW PRINT ↗#2Tsukushima Masamori (1561 - 1624) and Kyōsokabe Yatarō tumbling down a cliff1865/11
Nenoi Ōyata grappling with Musashibō BenkeiVIEW PRINT ↗#3Nenoi Ōyata grappling with Musashibō Benkei1865/11
Konda Teihachirō Tadakazu and Makara Jūrōzaemon Naozumi grappling by waterVIEW PRINT ↗#4Konda Teihachirō Tadakazu and Makara Jūrōzaemon Naozumi grappling by water1866/1
菜籐 伊豆 入道 立本Saitō Toshimoto Nyūdō Rhūhon (a retainer of Katō Kiyomasa) in an underwater fight with a Chinese opponentVIEW PRINT ↗#5Saitō Toshimoto Nyūdō Rhūhon (a retainer of Katō Kiyomasa) in an underwater fight with a Chinese opponent1866/1
Watanabe Genji no Tsuna grappling with Shogun Taro Tara no YoshikadoVIEW PRINT ↗#6Watanabe Genji no Tsuna grappling with Shogun Taro Tara no Yoshikado1866/1
Sanada Yoichi Yoshitada fighting Matano Gorō Kagehisa on a rocky site near waterVIEW PRINT ↗#7Sanada Yoichi Yoshitada fighting Matano Gorō Kagehisa on a rocky site near water
Okabe Rokuyata fighting with Satsuma no kami Tadamori on the seashoreVIEW PRINT ↗#8Okabe Rokuyata fighting with Satsuma no kami Tadamori on the seashore1865/11
Kiso (Minamoto) Yoshinaka and Mikaya MorihiraVIEW PRINT ↗#9Kiso (Minamoto) Yoshinaka and Mikaya Morihira
Shimotsu Gonnainosuke Yoshinori and Iwanari Chikaranosuke MitsuhiroVIEW PRINT ↗#10Shimotsu Gonnainosuke Yoshinori and Iwanari Chikaranosuke Mitsuhiro1865/7
Tezuka Tarō Mitsumori and Saitō Bettō SanemoriVIEW PRINT ↗#11Tezuka Tarō Mitsumori and Saitō Bettō Sanemori1866/1Prints 1–8 follow the source page’s Keyes / Beauty and Violence convention; later entries are additions. The prints themselves are unnumbered.
About the Series
This page catalogs all known prints in the
Yoshitoshi's series 'Eimei kumiuchi zoroi (英名 組討 揃 - Famous Fights Between Brave Men)'.This is a rarely seen early series, published early in Yoshitoshi's career. Several prints in it strongly resemble prints done by his master Kuniyoshi, clearly showing his influence on the young Yoshitoshi.
Keyes indicates that later impressions are known, with new colour blocks.
Publication details
- Dates: 11/1865 - 01/1866
- Size: ōban
- Signed: Gyokuō / Kaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu
- Seal: Gyokuō / Kiri
- Publisher: Moriji
- Engravers: Matsushima Hori Masa, Hori Ōta Tashichi
Catalogue references and numbering
Prints 1–8 follow the source page’s Keyes / Beauty and Violence convention; later entries are additions. The prints themselves are unnumbered.
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, 1982where it appears as series #149; he listed only 4 prints in the series. The next listing was in:
Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, "Beauty and Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892", Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992where it appears as series #14 (pages 38, 103); they listed a further 4 prints (using Keyes' reference numbers for the first 4), making 8 in total. We have discovered an additional 3 prints so far, making 11 prints in all at the moment.
We use the Keyes/B+V numbers for the first 8, and have numbered the rest in the order in which we discovered them; the prints in the series do not appear to have any numbers on them.
The total number of prints in the series is unknown. Please help us discover additional prints!
If you have either i) information about any errors on the page, ii) better images than the ones below,