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Stage Design: Act II, for the Chushingura
Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
1836
- Medium
- Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color
- Classification
- Prints
- Dimensions
- 24 × 36.4 cm (9 7/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of Herman A. Elsberg
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Horizontal format. A stage set shows the interior of a house, with the figure of a samurai and kneeling woman. In the right middle distance, a woman kneels behind a painted screen. Garden with two figures on a porch, left background. Title, upper right. Border composed of motifs of actors' seals (tomo-e crests).
