Stage Design: Act II, for the Chushingura

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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
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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Record ID
chndm_1962-197-1
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq481b330c3-ec04-408f-9af3-dd4a66f22dcb

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