Japan: The title page of ‘28 Famous Murders with Verse’, illustrated by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) and Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904), c. 1867

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年, 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892, also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年) was a Japanese artist.

Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川 芳幾, 1833 - February 6, 1904, also known as or Ochiai Yoshiiku 落合 芳幾), was a Japanese printmaker and newspaper illustrator.

Eimei nijūhasshūku (英名 二十八 衆句 or ‘28 Famous Murders with Verse’), also known as the 'Bloody Prints', is a collection of Japanese ukiyo-e from the 1860s, which depicted gruesome acts of murder or torture based on historical events or scenes in Kabuki plays. Although most of the works are solely violent by nature, it is perhaps the first known example of ero guro or the erotic grotesque in Japanese culture, an art sub-genre which depicts either erotic or extreme images of violence and mutilation.

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28 FAMOUS MURDERS