「元禄日本錦」 「の」「吉田沢右エ門兼定」「よ」「奥田孫太夫重盛」
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image courtesy of
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description
From the series Genroku Nihon Nishiki (Genroku Japan Brocade), this print depicts two of the Ako ronin: Yoshida Sawauemon Kanesada and Okuda Magodayu Shigemori. The series commemorates the 1703 vendetta in which forty-seven retainers of Lord Asano avenged his death against Kira Yoshinaka. Each panel identifies its subjects through cartouches labeled with iroha syllables — here 'no' and 'yo' — a device used throughout the series to organize the ronin roster. Kyosai likely rendered the figures in bold nishiki-e polychrome printing, drawing on his Kano-school draftsmanship to convey the gravity and martial bearing appropriate to men associated with Confucian loyalty.
More Prints by Kawanabe Kyosai
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1863
Woodblock print
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from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyôsai (Kyôsai hyakuzu)
Woodblock print
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Woodblock print
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「元禄日本錦」 「の」「吉田沢右エ門兼定」「よ」「奥田孫太夫重盛」 was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).