Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)
1794
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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1794
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) is a 1794 by Kitagawa Utamaro, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A man kneels in a wooden room, head low. Three others stand over him, one with a drawn sword. The room has a paper screen door and a single lantern. This print shows a famous scene from a 1701 revenge story. The play mixes history and drama, so artists often illustrated its intense moments. It’s in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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.
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