Horibe yatsubei horibe yajibei shōzō – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Two retainers, Horibe Yatsubei and Horibe Yajibei, are named here, drawn from the night-raid episode of *Kanadehon Chūshingura*. The play dramatizes the vendetta of the forty-seven masterless samurai from Akō, who avenged their lord's forced suicide by storming the Edo residence of Kira Yoshinaka in the snow of 1702. The print is signed by Utagawa Kunisada, the most prolific designer of the late Edo period, and dates from roughly 1818 to 1830, when kabuki audiences knew the story so well that a pair of names could evoke the whole night. It is worth noticing how the design turns a stage tableau into a portrait of two warriors.
| Created / published | [ca. 1818-1830] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37.7 x 26.3 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie. From the series: kanadehon chūshingura youchi ninzū no uchi : Kanadehon Chushingura: among the night raid. Signed: Motome ni oji Gototei Kunusada ga (painted by Kunisada, on request). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 101, p. 164. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Samurai--Japan--1810-1830. Theatrical productions--Japan--1810-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,660 × 4,555 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221963 |
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