Japanese Print "Ju-danme 十段目 (Act Ten) / Chushingura 忠臣蔵 (Treasury of the Loyal Retainers)" by Kitagawa Utamaro

Artist:Kitagawa Utamaro

Title:Ju-danme 十段目 (Act Ten) / Chushingura 忠臣蔵 (Treasury of the Loyal Retainers)

Date:1801-1802 (ca.)

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Source:British Museum
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Colour woodblock print. Tenth composition of eleven designs. Inset picture: Amakawaya Gihei climbing onto long storage-box; officers of law encircling him. Main picture: drunken man, stripped down to his underclothes, sitting on top of straw-covered sake keg; advertising lantern above him; two young servant boys in foreground. Inscribed, signed, marked.

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