Catalog record · 目録番号 56742

Act five

Artist / 作者: Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
Date / 年代: 1799-1801
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / harvard
Digital image / 画像: 673 × 1024 px
Published by / 公開者: 朝倉レン

Catalog note / 解説

Print for a scene from Act 5 of the Chūshingura which shows the robber Sadakurō holding a sword at the throat of Yoichibei, an elderly man, as he robs him and then kills him. In the background, Kampei, holding a rifle, shoots at a wild boar, but kills Sadakurō instead.

Image record / 画像情報

Harvard · Edo period, Late, 1789-1868 · harvard

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