The tables below are a detailed listing of all known Yoshitoshi print series (i.e. not including individual prints, including multi-panel prints). They give information on titles, dates, format, and the number of prints in the series; in addition, it notes their series numbers in Keyes and "Beauty and Violence".
1850s
| Title (English) | Alternative Titles | Title (Rōmaji) | Title (Kanji) | Date | Format | Count | Keyes No. | B&V No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provinces of Japan | Dai nippon kuni zukushi | 大 日本 國 盡 | 1859 | chūban | 11* | |||
| The Battle of the Cats and Mice | Byōso kassen | 1859 | chūban | 12* |
Edo Brocade - Comparison of Day and Night
The Glorious Warriors of the Eastern Provinces
HOEIDO EDITION
[240x150] 1 Nihonbashi
View looking across Nihon Bridge, Edo, from whence all distances were measured with a daimyo's cortège coming into view over the summit. In the foreground is a group of five fish-vendors (and a sixth partly hidden) getting out of the way, on the left, and two dogs on the right.
This bridge was located in the centre of Edo and was the starting point of the Tokaido Highway.
[240x150]2nd Edition Print
"The first prints were published jointly by Hoeido and Senkakudo......"
"When Take-no-Uchi Hoeido acquired the sole rights, the block was recut to show an assorted crowd which included fish peddlers at the foot of the bridge and the dogs or puppies in the center with some children near them."
Hiroshige (The Albuquerque Museum, 1983)
[240x150] 2 Shinagawa
A street of houses backing on to the seashore, and the tail-end of a daimyo's procession passing along it; behind the houses ships moored in the bay.
Being the first station on the highway, Shinagawa was thronged with travellers coming and going. The road was lined with many teahouses, restaurants and entertainment quarters. The bay, seen in Hiroshige's picture, has been reclaimed and now forms a part of Tokyo.
1 Nihonbashi (Eisen)
The Nihonbashi Bridge was the starting point of "ichiri-zuka" mileposts (ichiri = 2.44 miles) installed along highways around the country in 1604 (9th year of Keicho).
Sunrise over Edo. View of the canal with the sun, cut by streaks of mist, rising behind the houses, crowds by the bridge, and coolies pushing a cart laden with bales over it.
[240x159]2 Itabashi (Eisen)
The place name of Itabashi came from the Itabashi Bridge over the Shakujii River. This is a humorous scene where a palanquin bearer is touting a travelling couple, probably man and wife, for use of palanquins but the couple is hurrying away, pretending not to hear him.
A man shoeing a horse by a roadside hut; on the left, the first houses of the village.
[240x159]3 Warabi (Eisen)
Ferry over the Toda River. A large ferry-boat laden with passengers and a horse being poled across the river, travellers and horses waiting on the further bank; tow herons flying over the boat.
[240x160]36 Yabuhara (Eisen)
This is a sight at the Torii Pass (about 1,197 m above sea level) before the post town of Yabuhara. From here the Hida Road branched off, crossed the Nomugi Pass and led to Hida Takayama. At the root of the pine in the picture is the Suzuri (Inkstone) Spring, with which Kiso Yoshinaka is said to have written a petition. The mountain in the distance is Mt. Ontake.
[240x159]37 Miyanokoshi
Miyanokoshi is rich in historic remains in connection with Kiso Yoshinaka, who spent his childhood and youth here. At the Hataage Hachimangu Shrine, Kiso Yoshinaka rose in arms and marched against the Taira (1180). In this excellent piece of work, the close-range view is silhouetted against the distant view shaded off superbly so as to express the night fog.