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Kanadehon chushingura, Act 6 from the series a Copy for Imitation

Kanadehon chushingura, Act 6 from the series a Copy for Imitation

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Keisai Eisen

Act VI, Okaru's departure to the teahouse. In this print, the teahouse owner who has paid for Okaru arrives to take her with him work for him in Edo. While her mother pleads with him, he forces Okaru into the palanquin just as Kampei arrives. In explaining the situation the teashop owner explains that he had given Okaru's father the money in a wallet made out of the same material as the kimono he is wearing. Kampei suddenly is assailed by the suspicion that he has killed his own father-in-law. Shocked he allows the teahouse owner to take Okaru.
Artist
Keisai Eisen
(Japanese, 1790 - 1848)
Title
Kanadehon chushingura, Act 6 from the series a Copy for Imitation
Date
1805-1848
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
9 x 14 1/16 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of John C. Hawley
Accession No.
54.3.16
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

1954, gifted by John C. Hawley (Madison, WI/Delray Beach, FL) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Chushingura, Storehouse of Loyal Retainers: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 6/1/1991–8/11/1991

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