Senba Saburobe Mitsutada 千馬三郎兵衛光忠 / Gishi shijushichi zu 義士四十七図

Senba Saburobe Mitsutada of the Gishi Shijushichi-zu series continues the systematic documentation of the forty-seven ronin with another warrior portrait. Within the comprehensive series, individual prints like this one contributed to the collective argument that the ronin's act was simultaneously individual choice and group commitment—forty-seven separate decisions that aligned into a single historical event whose collective force exceeded the sum of its individual parts.