Kitagawa Utamaro, Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty
Wade, 1921.357 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Kitagawa Utamaro

Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty

late 1790s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
color woodblock print
Dimensions
36.6 × 26.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-194292

Stage version: In this dramatic scene depicted in Masayoshi’s stage version (see Chushingura: Perspective Picture for the "Treasure House of Loyalty" [1985.338.9]), Tonase prepares to kill her daughter Tonami with her husband’s sword and then to commit suicide. The dire moment results from the humiliating rejection of her daughter’s marriage contract. Fortunately, her husband, Honzo, dressed as an itinerant Buddhist priest, appears just in time to stop the tragedy. Parody print: In the parody print, Utamaro turned this dramatic event into a scene of domesticity in which the mother brushes her…

Provenance

Wade, 1921.357

Registry history

  • late 1790s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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