Kanadehon chushingura

Description This print depicts the spy Kudayu being dragged from under the flooring, with Yuranosuke and O-Karu above. Small triangular teeth-like designs form the border of the print. The title and subtitle appear in a rectangular colored, shaded, or patterned cartouche.

Exhibitions

• The Nature of Loyalty: Japanese Warrior Prints of the Nineteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1989.

Provenance Justine Lewis Keidel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by gift.

Inscriptions [Signature] Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga; [Date Seal] Tora juichi; [Date Seal Translation] Tiger 11

Credit Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1986