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Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Act Four (Yodanme), from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn

Act Four (Yodanme), from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)

Date1801-02
Label TextThe drama Chushingura, originally created for the puppet theater, was a wildly popular kabuki play. It was also the subject of innumerable print series. Its eleven acts provided a cast of colorful characters and exciting events tailormade for the stage and the woodblock print. Here, Utamaro juxtaposes episodes from the play-illustrated in square insets at the upper right of the prints-with commonplace scenes of daily life. --Catherine Roche, Curatorial Associate, 2010
Object number2017.23.14
ProvenanceCollection of Mary and Allan Kollar, Seattle, Washington; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Photo CreditPhoto: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints, Apr. 1 - July 4, 2010. Text by Catherine Roche. Cat. no. 30, reproduced p. 53. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Renegade Edo: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec, July 21 - Dec. 3, 2023. Text by Xiaojin Wu. No cat. no., pp. 75, 101, reproduced pl. 39 and on cover.
Credit LineGift of Mary and Allan Kollar, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
DimensionsSheet: 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (38.7 x 26.7 cm)
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Act Six (Rokudanme), from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)
1801-02
Object number: 2017.23.15
Photo: Susan Cole
Praying for Rain (Amagoi), from the series Seven Fashionable Scenes from the Life of Komachi (Furyu nana Komachi)
ca. 1795
Object number: 2014.32.1
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
The Actor Nakamura Nakazō I in the Role of a Daimyo's Retainer
1780-85
Object number: 2013.31.8
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro in the Role of a Daimyo's Retainer
ca. 1780s
Object number: 2013.31.7
Photo: William Wickett
South Wind, Clear Dawn (Gaifu kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.15
Image Not Available for Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-33
Object number: 2010.47.2
Image Not Available for Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.3
Image Not Available for The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.4
Image Not Available for The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.6
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
In the Well of the Wave off Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
1830-32
Object number: 2009.71
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Yoshida on the Tōkaidō, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.1
Photo: Susan Cole
Plum Garden at Kameido (Kameido Ume yashiki), from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
1857
Object number: 2017.23.22