# Stage Design: Act II, for the Chushingura

- By: Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of Herman A. Elsberg
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/132274)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3069f59b1319c8c8255242ea0b2ceb71.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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).