Oishi Chikara Yoshikane 大石主税良金 / Gishi shijushichi zu 義士四十七図
by Ogata Gekko
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- British Museum
Description
Oishi Chikara Yoshikane—the teenage son of the chief ronin Oishi Kuranosuke, who participated in the raid alongside his father at age fifteen or sixteen—was among the most poignant figures of the forty-seven ronin story. The youth of Oishi Chikara, and the father's dilemma of including his son in a mission certain to end in death, gave Gekko material for a portrait combining the warrior's determination with visible youth, making the tragedy of the whole affair more personally immediate.
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