Item description: Performed in the drama Hana ayame iroha jikki at the Nakamuraza Theater in Edo. Hana ayame iroha jikki is a play based on the story of Chûshingura, or the Forty-seven Masterless Samurai.
Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
Signed: Toyokuni ga.
Item description: Right sheet of a triptych.
Source acquisition
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
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