Kuniyoshi Bibliography

The most important references are in red. Books that primarily reproduce a single series, or several closely related series, are in blue.  Robinson’s Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982) and its 1996 privately published supplement are worthy of special mention.  They are the basis for most of the ordering and descriptions of warrior prints on this website.

Bidwell Collection.  The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1798-1861, 1968

Boháčková, Libuše, “Warrior-Prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi in Czechoslovak Collections” in Annals of the Náprstek Museum, Vol. 16, 1989

Clark, Timothy. Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller* Collection. 2009, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Dailey, Merlin C. Utagawa Kuniyoshi. An Exhibition based on the Raymond A. Bidwell Collection.  1980. Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, MA

Forrer, Matthi.  Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.  1988, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden

Hawley, Willis Meeker.  Famous Warriors of 16th Century Japan.  1993, W. M. Hawley, Hollywood

Hayashi, Yoshikazu and Richard Lane, The Complete Ukiyo-e Shunga, Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Tokyo, 1995-2000 (Volumes 12 and 16 are devoted to Kuniyoshi)

Herwig, Henk J. & Joshua S. Mostow. The Hundred Poets Compared, A Print Series by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada, 2007, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam

Hunter, Jack. Samurai Ghost and Monster Wars: Supernatural Art By Kuniyoshi (Ukiyo-e Master Series), Shinbaku Books, London, 2012

Inagaki, Shin’ichi & Toshihiko, Isao.  Kuniyoshi No Kyoga (Comic Pictures of Kuniyoshi 国芳の狂画).  1991, Tokyo Shoseki, Tokyo (text in Japanese)

Isao, Toshihiko.  Kuniyoshi’s 100 Images of Ghosts and Demons (Kuniyoshi yokai hyakkei, 国芳妖怪百景).  1999. Kokusyokankoukai, Tokyo

Iwakiri, Yuriko & Amy Newland. Kuniyoshi, Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 2013

King, James & Yuriko Iwakiri. Japanese Warrior Prints 1646-1905, 2007, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam

Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf.  Kuniyoshi (1798-1861).  1961

Klompmakers, Inge.  Of Brigands and Bravery: Kuniyosh’s Heroes of the Suikoden.  1998, Hotei Publishing, Leiden

Kuniyoshi, Utagawa. 101 Great Samurai Prints. 2008, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York

Marks, Andreas. Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium. 2011, Hotei Publishing, Leiden

McClintock, Martha & Wolfgram, J.  Ukiyo-e from The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA.  1994

Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst.  Kuniyoshi (1798-1861): Ausstellung in der Eigelsteintorburg.  1963, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne

Nagoya City Museum.  Ukiyo-e in the Collection of Mr. Takagi Shigeru.  2001, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan

Nagoya City Museum.  Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Exhibition to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Utagawa Kuniyosh’s Birth.  1996

Newland, Amy Reigle (Ed). The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. 2005, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam

Ôta Memorial Museum of Art. Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The 160th Anniversary of his Death (歌川 国芳: 没後一六〇年記念). 2021, Ôta Memorial Museum of Art

Ôta Ukiyo-e Memorial Museum.  The World of the Artistry of Kuniyoshi.  1999, Ôta Ukiyo-e Memorial Museum

Poster, Amy G.  Along the Tokaido, 12 Views by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.  1977, The Brooklyn Museum, New York

Riccar Art Museum. Exhibition of Suikoden by Kuniyoshi. 1979, Riccar Art Museum, Tokyo

Riccar Art Museum.  Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1787-1861.  1978, Riccar Art Museum, Tokyo

Robinson, Basil William.  Kuniyoshi. 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Robinson, Basil William.  Kuniyoshi, Ein Meister des japanischen Farbholzschnitt.  1963, Burkhard-Verlag Ernst Heyer, Essen

Robinson, Basil William.  Kuniyoshi 1798-1861, Une Collection Particuliere, Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneve, Cabinet des Estampes.  1978, Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva

Robinson, Basil William.  Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints.  1982, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

Sano, Emily.  The Woodblock Prints of Utagawa Kuniyoshi: From the Bidwell Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, Massachusetts.  1975, Vasar College Art Gallery

Schaap, Robert.  Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi.  1998, Hotei Publishing, Leiden

Schott, Michael & Kawanabe, Tomoko.  Kuniyoshi Taiheiki Eiyuden Heldengeschichten: Japanese Heroic Stories from the Sengoku (at war) Period.  1992, Kunstantiquariat Monika Schmidt, Munich

Shirakura, Yoshihiko, Japanese Shunga of Kuniyoshi (国芳の春画), Heibonsha Ltd., Tokyo, 2012 (text in Japanese)

Speiser, Werner.  Kuniyoshi.  1969, Siebenberg-Verlag, Bad Wildungen

Speiser, Werner.  Kuniyoshi 1798-1861; Kunisada (Toyokuni III) 1786-1865.  1962, Kunstmuseeum, Dusseldorf

Suzuki, Jûzô.  Ukiyo-e Taikei Volume 10: Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Eisen, Eizan, Sadahide.  1974, Shueisha, Tokyo

Suzuki, Jûzô.  The Decadents, 1969, Kodansha International, Tokyo

Suzuki, Jûzô.  Kuniyoshi.  1985, Heibonsha Ltd., Tokyo

Suzuki, Jûzô.  Ukiyo-e Hakka: Kuniyoshi.  1985, Hiebonsha, Tokyo

Takahashi, Katsuhiko & Nakau, Ei.  The World of Kuniyoshi: Cartoonist from Edo. Exhibition in commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of His Birth.  1995, Tokyo

Thompson, Sarah, Kuniyoshi X Kunisada, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2017, Boston

Varshavskaya, Elena. Heroes of the Grand Pacification: Kuniyoshi’s Taiheiki eiyū den. 2006, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam

Weinberg, David R.  Kuniyoshi: The Faithful Samurai.  2000, Hotei Publishing, Leiden

Yuriko, Iwakari & Amy Newland. Kuniyoshi, Japanese Master of Imagined Worlds. 2013, Hotei Publishing, Leiden

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*Yes, this is the same Arthur R. Miller who is a law professor, author, and former television commentator.

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