Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)
Kitagawa Utamaro
1797–1799
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 36.9 x 75 cm (14 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
This is a scene from the most popular work in Japanese theater, The Treasury of Loyal Retainers. A tale of loyalty and revenge, it is based on a historical event that took place during 1701-1703.
![Somenosuke of the Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Wakagi, Wakaba (Matsubaya uchi Somenosuke, Wakagi, Wakaba), from the series “Array of Supreme Beauties of the Present Day" ("Toji zensei bijin-zoroe")](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/8fe854e1-872d-3300-6983-fec3ddcc32e2/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
