That category of woodblock print called the "kuchi-e" has not been widely investigated. In the large bibliography that concludes this interesting study of the genre, only two or three titles refer to it.
Among the reasons for the neglect is that it did not appear until the very end of the 19th century, and by this time critical consensus had decided that the Japanese print was decadent; as a result, it no longer held any interest.
In 1911, a critic summarized prevailing taste when he introduced an exhibition at the New York Japan Society. He said the "ukiyo-e" school had sunk "into the dotage of decrepitude and then into the sleep from which there is no awakening."