Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse

This page is a catalog all the prints by

It dates from quite early in Yoshitoshi's career, when he was about twenty-seven, 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).

The series contains illustrations of events which often have a historical background, and were usually well-known from kabuki and noh plays.

The series contains text by what is claimed to be ten different writers, although one was listed twice, as Sanzantei and Kōrai.

If you better images than the ones below, or iii) missing information about individual prints, please let us know. There is also a title page, dating from the autumn of 1865, which we do not have an image of.

	Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, "Beauty and Violence: Japanese
		Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892",
		Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992

	Roger. S. Keyes, "Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and
		Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892",
		Cinncinnati, 1982

	Kazuichi Hanawa, Suehiro Maruo, "Bloody Ukiyo-e in 1866 and 1988)",
		Libro-Port, Tokyo, 1988