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The Night Attack, Part 2: Breaking into the House (Youchi ni, rannyû), from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura)


「忠臣蔵 夜討二 乱入」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835–39 (Tenpô 6–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.7 x 36.2 cm (9 1/3 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.912
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Akô Mus., Nishiki-e ni miru Chûshingura (1998), #2; Akô Mus., Nishiki-e ni miru Chûshingura (1998), #2; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #50.12; Tanba 1965, #438
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.912, 11.2155, 21.9385
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross