Actors Ichikawa Kuzô II as Fuwa Kazuemon, Ichikawa Komazô VII as Senzaki Yagorô (R), Bandô Shûka I as Okaru (C), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (L), in The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, A Primer (Kanadehon Chûshingura)

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Actors Ichikawa Kuzô II as Fuwa Kazuemon, Ichikawa Komazô VII as Senzaki Yagorô (R), Bandô Shûka I as Okaru (C), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (L), in The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, A Primer (Kanadehon Chûshingura)

「不破数右衞門」二代目市川九蔵、「千崎弥五郎」七代目市川高麗蔵　　「仮名手本忠臣蔵」「おかる」初代坂東しうか　　「早野勘平」八代目市川団十郎

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1851 (Kaei 4), 2nd month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36 × 75.6 cm (14 3/16 × 29 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Source unidentified

Accession Number2009.4992.10a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-0476 (R), 100-0477 (C), 100-0478 (L) (dated 1847); not found in Asano et al., Chûshingura VII (Akô-shi, 2014); Akô Mus., Nishiki-e ni miru Chûshingura (1998), #52

DescriptionThe MFA has two different versions of this triptych, with different actors in the right sheet and different censors' seals on all sheets: 11.38479a-c, plus 11.38139 (key block for the same version, center sheet only); and 2009.4992.10a-c. The latter seems to be a recycling of the two left blocks for a later production featuring the same lead actor (Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII), but at a different theater with a different supporting cast.

From an album of triptychs (plus one diptych), 2009.4992.1a-c to 2009.4992.17a-c

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Theater: Ichimura
仮名手本忠臣蔵（かなでほんちゅうしんぐら）
市村
1851、嘉永０４

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画(芳桐印)

Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印：福、村松
彫師：なし