# A Chushingura Parody

- By: Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
- Date: c. 1787
- Medium: Color woodblock print; hashira-e (pillar print)
- Classification: Print
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23350)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9148aa80-1749-7f83-52d5-24f0c23e4be8/full/!566,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In this version of the parody based on Act VII, a young man stands on the veranda reading a long love letter. A young woman, seated on the ground outside a fence, also reads the letter and is apparently greatly amused by its contents. Another young woman seated on a balcony looks down on the scene. It is thought that the artist designed this print at the age of eighteen.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0