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A Chushingura Parody
Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国LinkedCulture matchlcp-ebeff373a828
- Date
- c. 1787
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hashira-e (pillar print)
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 23350
In this version of the parody based on Act VII, a young man stands on the veranda reading a long love letter. A young woman, seated on the ground outside a fence, also reads the letter and is apparently greatly amused by its contents. Another young woman seated on a balcony looks down on the scene. It is thought that the artist designed this print at the age of eighteen.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Choyo (1857–1915; also Suzuki Cho-Yo; Kazan Cho-Yo); sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Apr. 1899; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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