THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 488
Personalities of Recent Times
近世人物誌
Kinsei jimbutsu shi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 10/1886–05/1888
THE SERIES COLLECTION
PERSONALITIES OF RECENT TIMES近世人物誌
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Lady TenshoinVIEW PRINT ↗#1Lady Tenshoin10/1886
No. 23, The actor Nakamura Shikan and his wife.VIEW PRINT ↗#2No. 23, The actor Nakamura Shikan and his wife.11/1886
No. 52, Isobayashi Taii on horseback by castle gate with falling stones.VIEW PRINT ↗#3No. 52, Isobayashi Taii on horseback by castle gate with falling stones.12/1886
The Tokugawa Princess Mime.VIEW PRINT ↗#4The Tokugawa Princess Mime.1/1887
No. 109, Endo Shimpei standing in a garden.VIEW PRINT ↗#5No. 109, Endo Shimpei standing in a garden.2/1887
No. 139, Imamuraskai, a prostitute of the Kimpei Daikoku house.VIEW PRINT ↗#6No. 139, Imamuraskai, a prostitute of the Kimpei Daikoku house.3/1887
The wrestler Umegatani TotaroVIEW PRINT ↗#7The wrestler Umegatani Totaro4/1887
No. 187, Okatsu of the Obana clan, the concubine of an officer.VIEW PRINT ↗#8No. 187, Okatsu of the Obana clan, the concubine of an officer.5/1887
No. 210, Ichikawa Danjaro IX as Benkei in KanjunichoVIEW PRINT ↗#9No. 210, Ichikawa Danjaro IX as Benkei in Kanjunicho6/19/1887
Nishigori Takekiyo painting.VIEW PRINT ↗#10Nishigori Takekiyo painting.7/20/1887
No. 263, Hanai Oume stabbing MinekichiVIEW PRINT ↗#11No. 263, Hanai Oume stabbing Minekichi8/20/1887
No. 293, The actor Bando Hikosaburo VVIEW PRINT ↗#12No. 293, The actor Bando Hikosaburo V09/25/1887
No. 311, Egawa Tarozaemon playing the koto.VIEW PRINT ↗#13No. 311, Egawa Tarozaemon playing the koto.10/16/1887
No. 333, Muraoka of the Konoe clan bound with rope.VIEW PRINT ↗#14No. 333, Muraoka of the Konoe clan bound with rope.11/13/1887
No. 357, Lady Kido Suikoin.VIEW PRINT ↗#15No. 357, Lady Kido Suikoin.12/30/1887
No. 383, Takeda Kounsai's mistress Tokiko in the snow.VIEW PRINT ↗#16No. 383, Takeda Kounsai's mistress Tokiko in the snow.01/20/1888
No. 414, Saigo Takamori walking with dog.VIEW PRINT ↗#17No. 414, Saigo Takamori walking with dog.02/24/1888
No. 430, Mr. Kawase's wife holding a dagger.VIEW PRINT ↗#18No. 430, Mr. Kawase's wife holding a dagger.03/24/1888
No. 464, The old warrior Tomobayashi Rokuro Mitsuhira.VIEW PRINT ↗#19No. 464, The old warrior Tomobayashi Rokuro Mitsuhira.4/25/1888
The fiancee of the Tokugawa shogun Keiki.VIEW PRINT ↗#20The fiancee of the Tokugawa shogun Keiki.5/25/1888Print numbers retain the original page’s catalogue order and numbering. The original catalogue references are preserved below.
About the Series
This page is a catalog all the prints by Yoshitoshi in the series 'Kinsei jimbutsushi (Personalities of Recent Times'.
Yoshitoshi produced these prints in the 1880s as furoku, or supplements, to certain issues of the Yamato Newspaper. These prints were distributed to subscribers. While employed by the newspapers, Yoshitoshi produced numerous other prints in other formats (see Keyes series 486, 'Yamato shimbun' and earlier series such as Keyes 315, 'Yubin hōchi shimbun', 318, 'Meiyo shidan').
These prints date from late in Yoshitoshi's career, during the time that he was producing his well-received masterpiece series, "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (1885-1892). At this time, Yoshitoshi was well established as a great artist, and his work was in high demand.
The series features illustrations of a wide variety of personalities from contemporary, and historical times. The portraits are considered exceptional in execution relative to other news nishiki-e prints.
Publication details
- Dates: 10/1886 - 05/1888
- Size: Ōban
- Signed: Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu
- Seal: Taiso
- Publisher: Yamato Shimbunsha
- Block carvers: Suntetsudō Enkatsu, Yamamoto
Catalogue references and numbering
Print numbers retain the original page’s catalogue order and numbering. The original catalogue references are preserved below.
This series appears in:Shinichi Segi, "Yoshitoshi: The Splendid Decadent", Tokyo, Japan, 1985
where it appears as color plates 23-34, figs. 62-65, page 52.
It is also 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
as series #488.