Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 39560
The Night Attack, Act XI
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi歌川国芳
- Date / 年代
- 1825-1835
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / vam
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2000 × 1381 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- Rights / 権利
- Commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Catalog note / 解説
The <i>Chushingura</i>, known in English as the 'The Treasury of Loyal Retainers' or 'The Vendetta of the 47 Masterless Samurai', is a famous 11-act play based on a true incident of 1703 in which the faithful retainers of the Lord of Ako beheaded a senior lord in revenge for the dishonour he inflicted on their master. Due to censorship laws, the names of the characters were changed and the play was re-set in the 14th century. In this final scene, which Kuniyoshi skilfully depicted using Western-style perspective and <i>chiaruscuro</i> ('light and dark'), the 47 retainers of Lord Enya Hangan, after years of waiting and planning, break into the mansion of their enemy, Ko no Morono. Finding Mo…
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