Nakamura Kensuke Masatoki
(中村勘助正辰).

This print depicts the warrior Nakamura Kensuke Masatoki, taken from a version by Ogata Gekkō dedicated to the events of the forty-seven loyal retainers.
It is a second edition produced in February 1902 by the publisher Matsuki Eikichi, released following the first edition produced in 1896 by the publisher Takegawa Risaburō. It distinguishes itself from the first edition by some details, such as the color of the sleeves (purple in the first edition) and the scabbard of the sword.
He was born in 1659 from a retainer of the Matsudaira family. In 1676 he became the son in law of Nakamura Shōsuke, a retainer of the Asano family of the Akō domain. In the same domain he served as scribe and horse attendant, eventually succeeding to the family headship in 1682.
He was in Akō in 1701 when his lord Asano Naganori engaged in the vendetta against Kira Yoshinaka and even after the surrender of Akō castle he continued working in the domain, handle some minor affairs.
During the raid on the Kira residence, he joined the team assigned to the rear gate., primarily fighting those Kira`s retainers who were fleeing from the mansion. After that Kira was murdered, all the retainers surrendered then sentenced to death by seppuku, the ritual suicide. He performed seppuku on February 4 1703, at the age of 45, assisted by Ōshima Hanpei from the Matsudaira faimly as kaishakunin, the person in charge of beheading the condemned after this has cut his belly.