Chushingura: Act III of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Chushingura Act III

Kitagawa Utamaro

Haruka and Haruji of the Kadotamaya as Soga no Goro and Asaina Saburo in the armor-pulling scene, from the series "Comic Performances by the Entertainers of the Pleasure Quarters at the Niwaka Festival (Seiro geiko niwaka kyogen zukushi)"

Isoda Koryusai

Act Eleven: Night Raid on Moronao's Mansion from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Act Ten: Amakawaya House from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen), from the series "Collection of Comic Performances from the Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro niwaka kyogen zukushi)"

Isoda Koryusai

The Actors Nakamura Kashiwagi as a Wakashu (second from right), and Three Unidentified Actors as Yakko

Katsukawa Shunsho

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Bando Shuka I

Utagawa School

Act Six: Yoichibei's House from the play Chushingura (Treausry of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Actors as Fukashichi and Omiwa from the play "Imoseyama," from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

The Actors Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo (right), Segawa Kikunojo II as Princess Tatsu (Tatsu Hime) (center), and Nakamura Sukegoro II as Matano no Goro (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

The Actors Nakamura Noshio I as Nyosan no Miya (right), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Renegade Monk Yochin (center), and Yamashita Kinsaku II as the Maid Mutsuhana (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Actors Representing the Feat of Asahina Breaking the Armer of Soga no Goro (Hirakawa-cho Yamamoto-cho kusazuribiki odori yatai) from the series The Festival of the Sanno Shrine (Sanno go-sairei)

Torii Kiyonaga