# Postal Hōchi Newspaper no. 645, Englishman raping a wine shopkeeper's daughter (Yūbin Hōchi shinbun, roppyaku yonjū gogō)

**Tsukioka Yoshitoshi** (Japanese, 1839–1892)  
August, 1875  
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper  
Image: 14 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (35.9 x 23.8 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.49.311. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73624).

## About this work

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi designed this (August, 1875), aged 36. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Colour woodblock print.** In Japan these were a team effort. The artist drew the design, a carver cut it into cherry-wood blocks, one block for each colour, and a printer brushed on the pigment and rubbed each sheet by hand. Full-colour prints of this kind were called nishiki-e, “brocade pictures”, from the 1760s on.

### [Tsukioka Yoshitoshi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/tsukioka-yoshitoshi)

Japanese, 1839–1892

Yoshitoshi trained under Utagawa Kuniyoshi and became one of the last great designers of ukiyo-e, working through Japan’s rapid modernisation after 1868. His early work includes violent battle and ghost scenes; after a breakdown in the early 1870s he developed a more refined, inventive style. His late series, One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, draws on history, legend and literature, and he trained many pupils who carried his approach into the new century.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Prints
- Culture: Japan
- The artist was 36
- Real size: about 14 × 9½ in (36 × 24 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/ukiyo-e)
- Subjects: Men, Women, Japanese
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/983.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/983/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/postal-hochi-newspaper-no-645-englishman-raping-a-wine-shopk-met-73624).