Select Chûshingura
(Mitate
Chûshingura, 見立忠臣蔵)
Publisher: Sôshû-ya
Yohei
c. 1835
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This series is not listed in either Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961) or Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) or in its privately published supplement. The individual sheets are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. |
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Title: Act Two (Nidanme, 二段目) Description: Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃乃井若狭之助) and Kakogawa Honzo
(加古川本蔵) I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image. |
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Act Six (Rokudanme, 六段目) Description:
Hayano Kanpei’s wife (nyôbô) Okaru (早勘平女房おかる) and the pimp Ichimonjiya Saibei (一文字屋才兵衛) I am grateful to Robert Pryor
for this image. |
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Act Nine (Kyûdanme, 九段目) Description:
I am grateful to Michel
Ouellet for this image. |
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