Scene from the Kabuki Play Chushingura (one of three sheets)
Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese, 1786 - 1865
1849-1850
Triptych color woodblock print
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (36.2 × 24.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Anne W. Thomas, in honor of Howard Thomas
2006.65.2abc
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in black ink, lower left: [four Japanese inscriptions]; inscribed, in black ink, upper left: [Japanese inscription]; inscribed, in black ink, upper right: [Japanese inscription]
Provenance
Howard Thomas (1899-1971); to his wife, Anne Wall Thomas, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1971; given to present collection, 2006.
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