Yoshiiku - Tenjitsubo Hosaku

Yoshiiku Ochiai

Print from the series 'Eimei nijūhasshūku (英名 二十八 衆句 - 28 Famous Murders with Verse)', of which Yoshitoshi produced half, with Yoshiiku being responsible for the others.

Scene of Hosaku, later the priest Tenjitsubo, calmly putting his sword back into a cloth cover after he has choked an elderly woman to death to steal a document he can use to falsely claim to be the son of the shogun.

The series contains illustrations of events which often have a historical background, and were usually well-known from kabuki and noh plays and are considered the pinnacle of Muzan-e, Ukiyo-e with cruel motifs.

Date: 1866

Publisher: Tomigoro Sanoya

Condition: Good color, dirt and pinholes as shown, backed. 

Genre: Ukiyo-e

Medium: Woodblock Print