Considered Yoshitoshi's finest series of bijin-ga, or pictures of beautiful women. The women depicted come from all social classes.

The series was printed using premium techniques, such as bokashi shading, embossing, and burnishing. Prints from this series are in major museum collections worldwide.

'Eimei nijūhasshūku (英名 二十八 衆句 - 28 Famous Murders with Verse)', of which both Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku produced half. The series contains illustrations of events which often have a historical background, and were usually well-known from kabuki and noh plays.

This series underscores both Yoshitoshi's fascination with battle and dark themes, and his precarious mental state that plagued him throughout his life. Yoshitoshi was no stranger to death due to his observation of actual battles and the aftermath of enemy heads left out for public viewing. This is the series that started the genre of Muzan-e (bloody prints).