THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 418

Short Illustrated History of Great Japan

大日本史略圖會

Dai nihon shiryaku zue
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 04/1879–1880

04/1879–1880PUBLICATION DATES

11 entriesIN THIS CATALOGUE

TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI · 月岡芳年

大日本史略圖會

THE SERIES COLLECTION

SHORT ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF GREAT JAPAN大日本史略圖會

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天照皇太神Amaterasu OmikamiVIEW PRINT ↗#1Amaterasu Omikami1879/4

Emperor YūryakuVIEW PRINT ↗#2Emperor Yūryaku1879/4 IMAGE NEEDEDEmperor ItokuVIEW PRINT ↗#3Emperor Itoku1879

第十五代神功皇后Empress JingūVIEW PRINT ↗#4Empress Jingū1879/4

第九十一代亀山天皇Emperor KameyamaVIEW PRINT ↗#5Emperor Kameyama1879

第八十代安徳天皇Emperor AntokuVIEW PRINT ↗#6Emperor Antoku1880/4

Emperor TakakuraVIEW PRINT ↗#7Emperor Takakura1880/4

Emperor KeikōVIEW PRINT ↗#8Emperor Keikō1880/5

第七十六代崇徳天皇Emperor SutokuVIEW PRINT ↗#9Emperor Sutoku1880

第九十四代後醍醐天皇Emperor Go-DaigoVIEW PRINT ↗#10Emperor Go-Daigo1880

第一代神武天皇Emperor JimmuVIEW PRINT ↗#11Emperor Jimmu1880

Prints #1–#10 retain the original Keyes-based numbering. Emperor Jimmu is site addition #11, unlisted in Keyes; #11 is a site number. The original catalogue references are preserved below.

About the Series

This page attempts to catalog all known prints in Yoshitoshi's series 'Dai nihon shiryaku zue (大日本史略圖會 - Illustrated History of Great Japan)'. (The title is now usually written with the simplified characters 図会.)

The series consists of illustrations of famous incidents in the lives of selected Japanese Emperors and mythical or semi-mythical figures. (The name and ordinal of the Emperor are given at the bottom of the large vertical cartouche on the left.)

It dates from toward the end of Yoshitoshi's career, when he was about forty. It thus dates from a little less than a decade 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).

Publication details

Dates: 1879 (4) - 1880
Size: Ōban triptych
Signed: Taiso
Seals: Taiso Yoshitoshi
Publishers: Tsunashima (1879–1880), Matsumoto (1879-1880), Kobayashi (1880)
Block carvers: Watanabe Hori Ei

Catalogue references and numbering

Prints #1–#10 retain the original Keyes-based numbering. Emperor Jimmu is site addition #11, unlisted in Keyes; #11 is a site number. The original catalogue references are 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 #418; he listed 10 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, 1992

where it appears as series #37 (pg. 124). It also appears in:

	Shinichi Segi, "Yoshitoshi: The Splendid Decadent",
		Tokyo, Japan, 1985

where it appears as black and white illustrations 118-119, page 104.

We use the Keyes numbers to order the prints below.

Emperor Jimmu is included as site addition #11. Egenolf Gallery identifies this triptych as unlisted in Keyes and Beauty and Violence. The existing print numbers are retained.