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Kanadehon chushingura
(Japan and Korea )
In this scene of the play, Yuranosuke bursts out of a chest in which he has been secretly listening as a co-conspirator's loyalty is tested. Yuranosuke is the leader of the samurai who were left without a master when Hangan was ordered to commit suicide. He needs to make sure the samurai's supplier would not give away their plans for revenge.
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Provenance
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Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by gift.
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Edo) (Place of Origin)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr., 1991
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
95.475