Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) (artist 04/30/1839 – 06/09/1892)
Konjin Chōgorō (金神長五郎) from the series Sagas of Beauty and Bravery (Biyū Suikoden - 美勇水滸伝)
12/1866
6.875 in x 9.375 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu
魁斎芳年筆
Publisher: Ōmiya Kyūjirō (Marks 415 - seal 30-034)
Combined date and aratame censor seal: 12/1866
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Marega Collection, Universita Pontificia Salesiana
Lyon Collection - Yoshitora version of this same struggle - published the same year
Bibliothèque nationale de France - #23 in an album
National Gallery of Victoria
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München "The chūban prints from this series were printed two to a block and then cut... The production of the set lasted from 4/1866-4/1867. Once completed, it was issued with an unsigned, undated title page and a contents page that itemised all fifty prints, with the signature Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga (picture by Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi) and the name of Kanagaki Robun in the left margin."
Quoted from: Yoshitoshi: Masterpieces from the Ed Freis Collection, page 85. The authors note that there appears to be a later edition where the publisher's seal has been left blank.
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There are 8 other images from this series in the Lyon Collection (#s 404, 1076, 1103, 1104, 1155, 1156, 1157 and 1188), plus the frontispiece (#1191) and title page (#1190).
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There are other copies of this print in the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum (日本浮世絵博物館) and at the Biblioteca de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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Illustrated:
1) in a color reproduction in Ukiyo-e to Horimono: the history and art of Japanese Prints and Tattooing by Jan van Doesburg, 2013, cat. 051.
2) in color in 'The Skin as Canvas: Japanese Traditional Tattoo though the Ukiyo-e Prints', a thesis by Noelia Paredes Lázaro, the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, June, 2020, ficha 1, page 34.
Ōmiya Kyūjirō (近江屋久次郎) (publisher)
Suikoden (水滸傳) (genre)
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図 - ghosts demons monsters and spirits) (genre)
Otokodate - chivalrous men (男伊達) (genre)
Tattoo (author)
Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文) (author)