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- Museum number
- 1909,0618,0.78
- Title
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Object: Ni-danme 二段目 (Act Two)
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Series: Chushingura 忠臣蔵 (Treasury of the Loyal Retainers)
- Description
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Colour woodblock print. Second composition of twelve designs. Oboshi Rikiya, meeting with his sweetheart Konami and handing over sword; Honzo watching over the pair from behind sliding door. Inscribed, signed, sealed and marked.
- Production date
- 1798-1799 (ca.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37.50 centimetres
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Width: 25 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Asano and Clark 1995
Here we see Oboshi Rikiya, the son of the hero Oboshi Yuranosuke, who has come to the Momoi Palace on an official errand, meeting with his sweetheart Konami, daughter of Kakogawa Honzo, chief councillor of the Momoi family. He looks to be handing over a sword. The figure watching over the pair from behind the sliding door is Honzo.
Literature:
Shibui, Kiyoshi 渋井清, 'Ukiyo-e zuten, vol. 13: Utamaro' 「ウキヨエ図典13 歌麿」, Kazama Shobo, Tokyo, 1964, pl. 112-1-2.
"Kitagawa Utamaro sakuhin mokuroku" 「喜多川歌麿作品目録」, 'Ukiyo-e shuka', 「浮世絵聚花」, vol. 3 (Bosuton Bijutsukan III ボストン美術館３), Shogakkan, Tokyo, 1978, pp. 235-254, pl. 366-2.
Other impressions:
The New York Public Library.
Otto Riese Collection.
Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館.
Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館 (keyblock print) [cat. no. 352].
[Main text translated in Japanese below / 以下上記本文日本語訳]
浅野／クラーク 1995
桃井館に使者に来た大星由良之助の息大星力弥と、力弥に心をときめかす桃井家の家老加古川本蔵の娘•小浪（図は刀を渡しているところか）、二人を襖の影から見守る本蔵である。
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 22 Sep-14 Nov, Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, 'Kitagawa Utamaro'
2011 Feb 14- Jun 13, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Chushingura (play)
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1909,0618,0.78
