Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Bibliography
This is a bibliography of printed material about Yoshitoshi. (A complete
bibliography of material about Japanese woodblock prints would be much
larger, and is not attempted here.)
Books
Books in English
- Jon R. Bourassa, "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892): Selected Works by
the Meiji Ukiyo-e Master",
College Art Gallery, New Paltz, 1981
- Eric van den Ing, Robert Schaap, "Beauty and Violence: Japanese
Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892", Havilland, Eindhoven, 1992
- The standard reference work on Yoshitoshi
- Roger S. Keyes, George Kuwayama, "The Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi:
The Herbert R. Cole Collection",
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1980
- Catalogue of an early and influential show
- Toni Liberthson, "Divine Dementia: The Woodblock Prints of Yoshitoshi",
Shogun Gallery, Washington, 1981
- Shinichi Segi, "Yoshitoshi: The Splendid Decadent",
Kodansha, Tokyo, 1985
- The first full-length treatment of Yoshitoshi published in English,
and an excellent resource, but long out of print and very hard to find
Books in Japanese
- "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Ten: Saigo no Tensai Ukiyoeshi (Yoshitoshi
Exhibition: The Last Gifted Ukiyo-E Master)",
Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, Tokyo, 1995
- Takahashi Seichiro, Segi Shinichi, "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi no Zembo ten
(The Full Story of Yoshitoshi)",
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1977
- Isao Toshihiko, Susugu Yoshida, "Tsukioka Yoshitoshi no Sekai (The
World Of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi)", Shoseki, Tokyo, 1992
Books in other languages
- Wolfgang Schamoni, Willibald Netto, "Taiso Yoshitoshi 1839-1892: Ein
Holzschnittmeister an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit",
Museums fur Ostasiatische Kunst der Stadt, Koln, 1971
- The catalog of the first major Yoshitoshi show in the West in modern
times
Specific Series
- Elizabeth Danechild, Herbert Egenolf, "New Forms of Thirty-Six
Ghosts: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892",
Ukiyo-e Gallery, San Francisco, 1982
- Toshihiko Isao, "Yoshitoshi Yokai Hyakkei (Yoshitoshi's One Hundred
Images of Ghosts and Demons)", Kokusho, Tokyo, 2001
- Roni Neuer, "100 Views of the Moon by Yoshitoshi Taiso 1839-1892",
Ronin Gallery, New York, 1978
- Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Alfred H. Marks, Harue M. Summersgill, Amy
Reigle Newland, Monika Hinkel, Kodaira Takashi, Ishigami
Hidemi, "A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour", Hotei, Amsterday, 2004
- Covers the series 'Twenty-Four Hours at Shimbashi and Yanagibashi'
- John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon",
San Francisco Graphic Society, Redmond, 1992
- The standard (and excellent) reference work on this series; large,
full-page colour illustrations of each print, along with a length writeup
of each one, explaining the image, and its meaning
- John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's Women: The Print Series Fuzoku
Sanjuniso", Avery Press, 1986
- A similar work on this major series
- John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's Women: The Woodblock-Print Series
Fuzoku Sanjuniso", University of Washington Press,
Seattle, 1995
- A later, and identical, edition of the previous entry
- John Stevenson, "Yoshitoshi's Thirty-Six Ghosts",
Weatherill, New York, 1983
- Another of Stevenson's gorgeous reference books, now out-of-print
(alas), and quite scarce (and expensive)
- Tamara Tjardes, "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Japanese Woodblock
Prints by Yoshitoshi",
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 2003
Some Yoshitoshi content
- Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, "The Age of Yoshitoshi: Japanese Prints
From the Meiji and Taisho Periods; Nagasaki, Yokohama and
Kamigata Prints; Recent Acquisitions (Catalog of the
Collection of Japanese Prints, Rijksmuseum, Part V)",
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1990
Articles
- Yone Noguchi, "The Last Master of the Ukiyoye School", Transactions of
the Japan Society, Vol. 12, London, 1914
Theses
- Thomas H. Kaasa, "Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892): A Preliminary Study of
a Meiji Ukiyoe Artist", University of Washington, 1964
- Roger S. Keyes, "Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and
Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1839-1892",
Cinncinnati, 1982
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