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- Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro
(Japanese, 1754 - 1806) - Title
- Tonase and Konami Appear before Oboshi's wife, Act Nine from Chushingura
- Date
- ca. 1798
- Medium
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 374 x 245 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Accession No.
- 1980.3225
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- Japan
Related
By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Collia-Suzuki, Gina. "The Complete Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: a Descriptive Catalogue." Weston-super-Mare: Nezu Press, 2009. p. 50, cat. no. 20.9
- Splendors of Edo: Japanese Prints, 1750-1930: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 8/7/1999–10/10/1999
- Chushingura, Storehouse of Loyal Retainers: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 6/1/1991–8/11/1991
- Calm Lives, Exuberant Pleasures : Outstanding Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Van Vleck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 3/31/1984–4/15/1984
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