Chushingura Act III

Chushingura: Act III of The Storehouse of Loyalty

Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Kujaku no Saburo, Matsumoto Koshiro II as Hata no Daizen Taketora, Nakajima Mihoemon II as Aramaki Mimishiro, and Nakamura Shocho I as Ki no Tsurayuki (right to left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Katsukawa Shunsho

Act VII: The Ichiriki Teahouse in the play Chushingura Juichidan Tsuzuki

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Katsukawa Shun'ei

Actors playing the roles of Giheiji and his son-in-law, Danshichi Kurobei

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

Katsukawa Shun'ei

The Actors Kasaya Matakuro II as Nobuyori Disguised as the Yakko Gunnai (right), and Miyazaki Hachizo as the Lay Monk Hambyo Nyudo (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Katsukawa Shunsho

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

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 Extraordinary Phenomenon of the Popular Otsu Picture (Tokini otsue kidai no maremono)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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