Scene from the Kabuki Play Chushingura (one of three sheets)

Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese, 1786 - 1865

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1849-1850

Triptych color woodblock print

Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (36.2 × 24.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Anne W. Thomas, in honor of Howard Thomas

2006.65.2abc

Geography

Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in black ink, lower left: [four Japanese inscriptions]; inscribed, in black ink, upper left: [Japanese inscription]; inscribed, in black ink, upper right: [Japanese inscription]

Provenance

Howard Thomas (1899-1971); to his wife, Anne Wall Thomas, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1971; given to present collection, 2006.

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