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ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1887
Description
Between 1886 and 1888, Yoshitoshi drew a series of illustrated short biographies of contemporary personages that were issued as supplements in the Yamato Shinbun newspaper.
ContributorsToshichika (Artist) / 年親 (Artist) / Toshimine (Artist) / 年峯 (Artist) / Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor)) / 月岡 芳年 (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor))
Created1883 to 1888
Description
A young girl comes to the assistance of a wounded soldier who is hiding in a barn. The text on the left, 少女 の 仁心 士君子 も 及ば さる 所 あり, roughly translates to "the kindness of a little girl is sometimes better than what even a virtuous man can do." Part of a Meiji-period series of didactic prints.
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Hori Ei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫 栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1875
DescriptionThis print depicts a woman in a graveyard being rescued by a policeman. The attempted rapist (right) flees from the scene. It is from a series of illustrated sensational news items that Yoshitoshi drew for the newspaper Yūbin hōchi shinbun.
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Horiei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1874
DescriptionThis newspaper nishiki-e depicts the prelude to the 1860 Sakuradamon Incident. Mito clan conspirators Saitō Kenmotsu and Ōzeki Washichirō lie in wait for the target of their assassination plot: the chief minister to the Tokugawa government, Ii Naosuke.
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Gusokuya (Publisher) / 具足屋 (Publisher) / Watanabe Horiei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫栄 (Contributor)
Created1874
DescriptionThe subject of this ōban newspaper nishiki-e is Enomoto Kamajirō Takeaki, a Tokugawa loyalist admiral who became a high-ranking official in the Meiji government after the Tokugawa defeat.