Act VII from the series The Loyal League of Forty-seven Rōnin

19th century

Medium: Ukiyo-e: Polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: unframed: 8 7/8 × 13 1/2 in. (22.5 × 34.3 cm)
framed: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917
Accession Number: 1967.64.144
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher’s seal mark: Shibajin Arita-ya 芝神　有田屋 (rectangular, relief, lower right)\r\nCensor’s seal mark: Mura 村 (round, intaglio, upper right next to the title) missing in the Yale’s\r\n

Inscriptions

Chūshingura shichi dan me 忠臣蔵　七段目 (upper right)

Signed

“Hiroshige ga” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重画 (lower left)

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