Catalogue 13: The Forty-seven Ronin. Prints by Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi

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Название: Catalogue 13: The Forty-seven Ronin. Prints by Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi

Издатель: Venezia Italy: Lella & Gianni Morra

Год: 2012

Язык: English

Формат: pdf (оригинал)

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Catalogue 13: The Forty-seven Ronin. Prints by Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi

The Chūshingura “The Treasury of Loyal Retainers”

In this catalogue we present two series of prints of rōnin by two artists, Utagawa

Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892).

In both series each print is numbered but in different order.

Each character is shown in the two versions following the numbering

of the Kuniyoshi’s series. mirknig.com

The prints of “Biographies of Loyal and Righteous Samurai” (Seichū gishi

den) were designed by Kuniyoshi and published by Ebiya Rinnosuke in 1847-48.

All the characters’ names in the prints are distorted from the historical names

to conform with the censorship’s rules. The series is composed of forty-seven

full figure portraits of rōnin and four additional characters: Kō no Moronao

(historical name Kira Yoshinaka) (no.38), Enya Hangan (Asano Naganori)

(no. 39), Teraoka Hei’mon (Terasaka Kichiemon) (no. 18) and the servant

Juzaburō (no. 51). mirknig.com

In addition to this series the catalogue includes a well known triptych of the rōnin at the Ryogoku bridge.