Act X (Jûdanme), from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura)

「忠臣蔵　十段目」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1801–02 (Kyôwa 1–2)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 25.3 cm (15 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper

Accession Number54.1520

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #385; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #368.10; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 165.3.2

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)