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The Treasury of the Loyal Retainers Act IX
Kuniteru, 1851, Wood cut
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The Treasury of the Loyal Retainers Act IX
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Title
'The Treasury of the Loyal Retainers' ('Kanadehon Chushingura') Act IX
Description
This scene is from Act 9 of the Kabuki play 'The Treasury of Loyal Retainers' or 'Kanadehon Chushingura'. It takes place at Yuranosuke's house in Yamashina. Honzo, father to Konami and husband to Tonase, objects to the arranged marriage between Konami and Rikiya. When Honzo begins to criticize Rikiya, Rikiya's mother attacks Honzo with a spear. Honzo wrestles her to the ground but an armed Rikiya comes to his mother's assistance.
Artist / maker
Kuniteru
Date
1851
Size
22.5 x 35.5 cm.
Type
Wood cut
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Art and Design Library
The following information appears on the print:
Signature: Ichiyosai Kuniteru ga
Censor's Seals: Kinugasa and Murata (1851 - 1853)
'Chushingura' is one of the most famous plays in the Japanese repertoire, particularly because of its revenge plot and extraordinary ending when the forty seven loyal retainers, having avenged their lord's honour, then commit ritual suicide (seppuku).
This is one of a set of 50 prints donated to Edinburgh City Libraries by Marie Ferguson Dyer in honour of her father Henry Dyer. Dyer was a Scottish engineer who became the first Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1872.
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