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print
;
uki-e
Object Type
print
uki-e
Museum number
1906,1220,0.501
Title
Object:
Sho-dan 初段
(Act I)
Series:
Kanadehon Chushingura 仮名手本忠臣蔵
(The Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)
Description
Woodblock print. Moronao offering a love-poem to Kaoyo in the shrine of Hachiman at Kamakura.1 of 2.
Producer name
Print artist:
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Production date
1801-1805
Production place
Made in:
Japan
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Binyon 1916 / A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(55)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
literature
shrine
courtship/love
Associated names
Associated with:
Ko no Moronao (高師直)
Associated with:
Lady Kaoyo (顔世)
Associated with:
Hachiman 八幡
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Arthur Morrison
Acquisition date
1906
Department
Asia
Registration number
1906,1220,0.501
Conservation
Treatment
: 12 May 1999