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ContributorsIchiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga (Artist) / 一勇斎国芳画 (Artist) / Kobayashi Tajirō (Publisher) / 小林 泰治郎 (Publisher)
Created1847
Description
The actor Hikosaburō Bandō IV坂東彦三郎 as the character Ono Sadakurō in the play Chūshin Meimei Kikigaki Zōsho.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunikiyo II (Artist) / 歌川 国清 (Artist) / Tsutaya (Publisher) / 蔦屋 (Publisher)
Created1857
Description
This woodblock print is the first in a series of 12 prints by Utagawa Kunikiyo II depicting the popular play Chūshingura. The print portrays the lords Enya 塩冶, Wakasa 若狭 and Moronao 師直, and Lady Enya.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Chō Hori (Contributor) / 長彫 (Contributor) / Maruya Kyūshirō (Publisher) / 丸屋久四郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
Description
Triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II depicting a scene from the kabuki play Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (The Imitation Murasaki and the Rustic Genji), a dramatization of a popular book by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭 種彦 that satirizes the Tale of Genji.
ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1847
DescriptionPortrait and biography of one of the 47 rōnin from the Chūshingura story
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Horiei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1874
DescriptionThis newspaper nishiki-e depicts the prelude to the 1860 Sakuradamon Incident. Mito clan conspirators Saitō Kenmotsu and Ōzeki Washichirō lie in wait for the target of their assassination plot: the chief minister to the Tokugawa government, Ii Naosuke.