THE SERIES COLLECTION · KEYES 517

Actors with Snow, Moon and Flowers

雪月花之内

Setsugekka no uchi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1890

1890PUBLICATION DATES

4 entriesIN THIS CATALOGUE

TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI · 月岡芳年

#01 · first state Snow: Onoe Baikō (Kikugorō V) as Iwakura Sōgen — first state

雪月花之内

THE SERIES COLLECTION

ACTORS WITH SNOW, MOON AND FLOWERS雪月花之内

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Snow: Onoe Baikō (Kikugorō V) as Iwakura Sōgen — first stateVIEW PRINT ↗#01 · first stateSnow: Onoe Baikō (Kikugorō V) as Iwakura Sōgen — first state8/1890

Snow: Onoe Baikō (Kikugorō V) as Iwakura Sōgen — second stateVIEW PRINT ↗#01 · second stateSnow: Onoe Baikō (Kikugorō V) as Iwakura Sōgen — second state8/1890

Moon. Ichikawa Sanshô (Danjurô IX) as the pirate Kezori Kuemon.VIEW PRINT ↗#02Moon. Ichikawa Sanshô (Danjurô IX) as the pirate Kezori Kuemon.1890

Flowers. Ichikawa Sadanji as Gosho no Gorozô.VIEW PRINT ↗#03Flowers. Ichikawa Sadanji as Gosho no Gorozô.1890

Print numbers retain the original page’s catalogue order and numbering. The original catalogue references are preserved below. The two states of print #1 are displayed separately under the same print number.

About the Series

This page catalogs prints in Yoshitoshi's series 'Setsugekka no uchi (Snow, moon, and flowers)'.

This is a series of half-length portraits of actors, which was executed by Yoshitoshi near the end of his life. Considered among Yoshitoshi's best kabuki prints.

Publication details

Dates: 8/1890
Size: Oban triptych
Signed: Yoshitoshi ga
Seal: Yoshitoshi, Taiso
Publishers: Akiyama Buemon
Engraver: Hori Yu
Calligraphy: Katsurakaen Keika

Catalogue references and numbering

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

where it appears as series #517, and:

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

as series #69 (page 91, 146).

We use the Keyes numbers to order the prints below.