About this artwork
Here, the ronin break into Kira’s mansion using bamboo poles to pry open the framework around closed shutters. Each ronin wears a black tunic with a white, dog’s tooth border closely resembling the ronin dress in Masayoshi’s final act, also shown nearby. This dress (or uniform) became the standard in almost all of the later ukiyo-e depictions of ronin in a Chûshingura story.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of Asia
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Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
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Title
- The Night Attack, Part 2: Breaking In (Youchi ni, rannyu), from the series "The Revenge of the Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)"
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Place
- Japan (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1829–1844
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Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
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Dimensions
- 24.8 × 37.3 cm (9 3/4 × 14 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Frederick W. Gookin Collection
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Reference Number
- 1939.1335
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/33788/manifest.json
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