Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) (late 1790s): Art, History and Details
Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1790s, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) (late 1790s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This is a scene from the most popular work in Japanese theater, The Treasury of Loyal Retainers. A tale of loyalty and revenge, it is based on a historical event that took place during 1701-1703.
Object facts
- Title: Scene Adapted from the play The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)
- Date: late 1790s
- Creator attribution: Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Type: Print
- Technique: color woodblock print
- Dimensions: Sheet: 36.9 x 75 cm (14 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1940.1043
Collection credit
Bequest of James Parmelee
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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