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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.2728
People
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
Original Language Title: 仮名手本忠臣蔵 三段目
Transliterated Title: Kanadehon Chūshingura
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
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
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
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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

Verification Level

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