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Stage Design: Act II, for the Chushingura

Cooper Hewitt

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Object Details

Designer

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Publisher

Senichi

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Horizontal format. A stage set shows the interior of a house, with the figure of a samurai and kneeling woman. In the right middle distance, a woman kneels behind a painted screen. Garden with two figures on a porch, left background. Title, upper right. Border composed of motifs of actors' seals (tomo-e crests).

Credit Line

Museum purchase through gift of Herman A. Elsberg

Date

1836

Accession Number

1962-197-1

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

theater

Object Name

Print

Type

Print

Medium

Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color

Dimensions

24 × 36.4 cm (9 7/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

made in

Japan

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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq481b330c3-ec04-408f-9af3-dd4a66f22dcb

Record ID

chndm_1962-197-1

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