id:			103288
accession number:	1921.357
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.357
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Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty, late 1790s. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 36.6 x 26.1 cm (14 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.357

title:				Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty
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creation date:			late 1790s
creation date earliest:		1797
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Gift from J. H. Wade
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	color woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 36.6 x 26.1 cm (14 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Signature: Utamaro hitsu
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eiju han, emblem)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Transformations in Japanese Printmaking
	opening date:   1984-09-25T04:00:00
	<i>Transformations in Japanese Printmaking</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 16, 1984).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977: In the Nature of Materials - Japanese Decorative Arts.<br>Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections".

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PROVENANCE

	(sale: Walpole Galleries, 1921, lot 317)
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	(Yamanaka & Co.)
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wall description: 
Stage version: In this dramatic scene depicted in Masayoshi’s stage version (see <em>Chushingura: Perspective Picture for the "Treasure House of Loyalty"</em> [1985.338.9]), Tonase prepares to kill her daughter Tonami with her husband’s sword and then to commit suicide. The dire moment results from the humiliating rejection of her daughter’s marriage contract. Fortunately, her husband, Honzo, dressed as an itinerant Buddhist priest, appears just in time to stop the tragedy. Parody print: In the parody print, Utamaro turned this dramatic event into a scene of domesticity in which the mother brushes her daughter’s hair. An itinerant priest, wearing a deep-brimmed basket hat, reads to them from the gate.
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