1933.4.2728: Night Scene Outside the Kamakura Castle with Bannai Attacking Kanpei, Act 3 from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chūshingura)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.2728
- People
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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
- Title
- Night Scene Outside the Kamakura Castle with Bannai Attacking Kanpei, Act 3 from the series Treasury of the Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chūshingura)
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: 仮名手本忠臣蔵 三段目
Transliterated Title: Kanadehon Chūshingura - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1806
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/206723
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- horizontal ōban: H. 26 × W. 38.3 cm (10 1/4 × 15 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Dr. Arthur B. Duel, New York (1920s - 1933), sold; to Friends of Arthur Duel, (1933), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art.
Note: Arthur B. Duel bought his prints mostly from dealers, auctions and major print sales in the United States and Europe. An anonymous group of friends purchased the collection from Duel and gave it to the Fogg museum in his name.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.2728
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Matthi Forrer, Hokusai: Bridging East and West (In Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Artist's Death), exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1998), cp. 53, cat. no. 52; p. 136; p. 179
Exhibition History
- Samurai: The Making of a Warrior, North Carolina Museum of Art, 10/19/2024 - 02/02/2025
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