Chûshingura Prints
In
1702, Lord Asano of Akô was provoked by Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka into
drawing his sword in the shogun’s palace, for which he was forced to take his
own life, and his estate was confiscated.
Forty-seven of Lord Asano’s retainers, who were now rônin (samurai without
masters), planned, and carried out a successful attack on Kira’s palace. Kira’s head was cut off with the same dagger
Lord Asano used to commit seppuku. (The term “hara-kiri”, although more common in English than “seppuku”, is considered in
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Series |
Date |
Robinson* |
Robinson‡ |
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Comic Paper Lantern Chûshingura (Dôke Chôchingura) |
1830 |
unlisted |
unlisted |
|
1835 |
unlisted |
unlisted |
|
|
1839-1842 |
unlisted |
unlisted |
|
|
1847 |
169 |
unlisted |
|
|
Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Seichû gishi den) |
1847-1848 |
72 |
S54 |
|
Origins of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai (Seichû gishi hottan) |
1848 |
72 |
S55 |
|
Stories of Faithful Hearts and True Loyalty (Seichû gishin den) |
1848 |
72 |
S56 |
|
Comparison of the High Renown of the Loyal Retainers and Faithful Samurai (Chûshin gishi kômei kurabe) |
1848 |
78 |
S57 |
|
Stories of the Faithful Samurai of the Red Castle (Sekijô gishi den) |
1848 |
83 |
S58 |
|
Mirror of the Faithful Samurai and Loyal Retainers (Gishi chûshin kagami) |
1848 |
82 |
S59 |
|
1849 |
unlisted |
unlisted |
|
|
1849 |
unlisted |
unlisted |
|
|
Mirror of the True Loyalty
of the Faithful Retainers (Seichû gishin kagami) |
1851 |
unlisted |
S71 |
|
The Fifty-three
Post-stations of the Chûshingura
(Chûshingura gojûsan tsuji) |
1851 |
unlisted |
S72 |
|
Twelve Acts of the Lantern Chûshingura (Ju-ni dan shoku Kanadehon Chûshingura) |
1852 |
218 |
unlisted |
|
Portraits of the Faithful
Samurai of True Loyalty (Seichû
gishi shôzô) |
1853 |
79 |
S78 |
|
True Portraits of the
Faithful Samurai (Gishi
shinzô) |
1853 |
75 |
S80 |
|
‘Kanadehon Chûshingura’ (かなで本忠臣蔵) is available on another website |
1854-1855 |
69 |
S86 |
|
Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers, Individually (Seichû gishin meimei kagami) |
1857 |
77 |
S90 |
|
|
206 |
|
* “Robinson 1961”
indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by
Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).
‡ “Robinson 1982”
indicates listing in Kuniyoshi: The
Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca,
NY, 1982) and its privately published
supplement.
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