Act VI (Rokudanme), from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura)

「忠臣蔵　六段目」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 20.7 x 33 cm (8 1/8 x 13 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.604

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 245, horizontal ôban #49.06

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村
彫師：なし

Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)