General condition are good. Color has not faded and it is still pretty clear and vivid. There are few but not remarkable stains and scratches on the back side borders. No fixing nor wrinkles are present.
Two key figures, the main villain and what is remembered as the sinless victim of the 47 rōnin story are represented in this print from one of the countless Kanadehon Chūshingura series.
The matter was well known by the time already and both literature and theater took inspiration from it. However in an era where peace and harmony had to be preserved all along the country any reference to the original feud was prohibited by
censorship and the authors found themselves force to change names for places, characters and sometimes even transpose the flow of the events on a different timeline.
So here Lord Asano becomes Takasada while the evil Kira becomes Moronao.
This may actually be an edition released soon after the first one being the Kanadehon Chūshingura pretty popular by that time. However it misses some details: we can point out that both the names of the actors are missing from the red cartouches
where only the characters one are shown.
General condition are good. Color has not faded and it is still pretty clear and vivid. There are few but not remarkable stains and scratches on the back side borders. No fixing nor wrinkles are present.
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Series | The treasury of loyal retainers. Third act. (Kanadehon Chūshingura. San dan me, 仮名手本忠臣蔵. 三段目. |
Author | Utagawa Kunisada II (二代目国貞). |
Size | Ōban (大判). |
Publisher | Marutetsu (丸鉄). |
Number | / |
Genre | Yakusha-e (役者絵). |
Period | C. 1863 ~ 1865. |
Trimmed | No |
Backed | No |
Code | UKSII02002 |