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TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) YOSHIDA HIROSHI (1876-1950)
3013 Six woodblock prints One large woodblock print
TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) Oban tate-e; four from Tsuki hyakushi (100 Early large-format version of the print known
Album of 104 woodblock prints Aspects of the Moon), comprising: Gosechi as Umagaeshi (The Horse Turnback), dated
Double sided album, oban tate-e, mounted no myobu (Lady Gosechi) [#51], 1887.6.23; to 1922, published by Watanabe, with artist’s
with a brocade fabric cover; a complete set of Dokusho no tsuki - Shiraku (Reading by mark - very good impression and color,
the series Tsuki hyakushi (100 Aspects of the Moonlight - Shiraku) [#57], 1888.3 (second slightly toned, minor spots of restoration
Moon), consisting of a frontispiece, preface, state); Ashigarayama no tsuki - Yoshimitsu 18 3/4 x 13 3/4in (47.6 x 35cm)
an index (two sheets) and one hundred (Mount Ashigara Moon - Yoshimitsu) [#70], $2,000 - 3,000
illustrations published between 1885-1892 by 1889.10; and Bonso tsukiyo ni keishi no uke
Akiyama Buemon, each signed Yoshitoshi and (Monk receives cassia seeds on a moonlit Ogura, #8
variously sealed Yoshitoshi, Yoshitoshi no in, night) [#93], 1891.6; one from Shinkei
Kai, Go Kaisai and Taiso, some with engraver sanjurokkasen (New forms of 36 ghosts),
notation - generally good impressions, color entitled Tametomo no bui tokijin o shirizoku
and condition, slightly toned, some with zu (Tametomo’e ferocity drives away the
staining and soiling smallpox), 5 October 1890; and one from
14 x 9 1/2in (36.3 x 24.2cm) Kokoku nijushiko (24 Accomplishments
$10,000 - 15,000 in Imperial Japan), Date-ke no chichinin
Masaoka (The wet nurse Masaoka of Date),
The catalogue raisonné of this series is 1881, each signed Yoshitoshi - varying
John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred impression, generally good color, some
Aspects of the Moon, Redmond, WA., 2001. toning, four backed, two trimmed
13 3/4 x 9 7/8in (35 x 25cm) [4]
14 x 9 3/4in (35.5 x 24.6cm)
14 x 9 3/8in (35.5 x 23.7cm)
$800 - 1,200
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