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Japanese color woodblock print: a kneeling man arranges pink flowers in a white vase while two women in patterned kimono look on beside a painted plum branch screen.

Act Four: Enya Hangan's Castle from the play Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers)

A color woodblock print showing three figures in an interior with a flowering plum branch painted on a sliding screen. A kneeling young man in a pink robe arranges pink blossoms in a white vase, while two women in patterned kimono stand and look toward him. A red lantern and a hanging scroll appear at right.

Artist
Katsukawa Shun'ei
Date
c. 1795
Medium
Color woodblock print; koban
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 2194 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1800).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection

Español: Acto cuarto: castillo de Enya Hangan, grabado Chushingura

Grabado japonés en color que muestra tres figuras en un interior con una rama de ciruelo florecido pintada en un biombo corredizo. Un joven arrodillado, con una túnica rosa, acomoda flores rosadas en un jarrón blanco, mientras dos mujeres con kimono estampado lo observan de pie. A la derecha aparecen una lámpara roja y un rollo colgado.

Português: Ato quatro: castelo de Enya Hangan, gravura Chushingura

Gravura japonesa em cores que mostra três figuras em um interior, com um ramo de ameixeira em flor pintado num biombo deslizante. Um jovem ajoelhado, de roupão rosa, arranja flores cor-de-rosa num vaso branco, enquanto duas mulheres de quimono estampado o observam de pé. À direita, uma lanterna vermelha e um rolo pendurado aparecem.

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