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print
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uki-e
Object Type
print
uki-e
Museum number
1907,0531,0.504
Title
Object:
Uki-e Chushingura kyudamme no zu
Description
Colour woodblock print, oban, uki-e. View of Oboshi Yuranosuke’s residence in Yamashina, close to Kyoto, from Act IX, ‘Yamashina kankyo’, of the play ‘Kanadehon Chushingura’ by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu. In the room furthest away on the right is Yuranosuke himself with a sword in hand speaking to five others; in the central room is Honzo’s wife Tonase with a sword raised above her head about to kill their daughter Konami; and in the closest room, left, is Yuranosuke’s wife Oishi carrying a ceremonial stand (‘sanbo’) speaking to her son Oboshi Rikiya; outside the garden gate, disguised as an itinerant ‘komuso’ priest and wearing a deep sedge hat with a bamboo shakuhachi in his hand is Tonase’s husband Kakogawa Honzo.
Producer name
Print artist:
Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代歌川豊国
Published by:
Izumiya Ichibei 和泉屋市兵衛
Cultures/periods
Kansei Era
Production date
1795
(circa)
Production place
Published in:
Edo
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
colour
$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
(6)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
literature
uki-e
domestic building
snow
Associated names
Representation of:
Ōboshi Yuranosuke 大星由良之助
Representation of:
Tonase
Representation of:
Oishi (お石)
Representation of:
Oishi Chikara Yoshikane 大石主税良金
Representation of:
Kakogawa Honzo Yukikuni 加古川本蔵行國
Associated with:
Takeda Izumo II 二代目竹田出雲
Associated with:
Miyoshi Shoraku (三好松絡)
Associated with:
Namiki Senryu (並木千柳)
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Kanadehon Chushingura
Associated Title:
Kudanme (九段目)
(act)
Associated Title:
Yamashina kankyo (山科閑居)
(act name)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Samuel Tuke
Acquisition date
1907
Department
Asia
Registration number
1907,0531,0.504