GENROKU CHÛSHINGURA
(元禄忠臣蔵)


This cycle of ten plays consists of  Edo-jô no Ninjô (江戸城の刃傷), Daini no Shisha (第二の使者),
Saigo no Daihyôjô (最後の大評定), Fushimi Shumokumachi (伏見撞木町), Ohama Goten
Tsunatoyo-kyô (御浜御殿綱豊卿), Nanbuzaka no Yuki Wakare (南部坂雪の別れ), Kira Yashiki
Uramon (吉良屋敷裏門), Sengakuji (泉岳寺), Sengoku Yashiki (仙石屋敷), and Ôishi Saigo no
Ichinichi (大石最後の一日).
 
 

1911


Asano Takumi-no-Kami (浅野内匠頭)
 
Kira Kôzuke-no-Suke (吉良上野介)

Play: Edo-jô no Ninjô (江戸城の刃傷), the first play of the Genroku Chûshingura (元禄忠臣蔵) cycle.
Date: 1911
Artist: Kobori Tomone (小堀鞆音)
Medium: Woodblock? printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Technically speaking, this print cannot depict a scene from Genroku Chûshingura because
the writing of that cycle of plays did not begun until the 1930s.   Nonetheless, the print illustrates an
incident dramatized in the first play of that cycle of plays.
 
 
 

1977

                   
[Hallway with Pine-Trees Along] Matsu no Rôka (松の廊下)
Asano Naganori (浅野長矩) and Kira Yoshihisa (吉良義央)
 
Play: Edo-jô no Ninjô (江戸城の刃傷), the first play of the
Genroku Chûshingura (元禄忠臣蔵) cycle.
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 
 




APRIL 1981

                 
Ichikawa Somegorô VI (市川染五郎) as
Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵肋)

Play Cycle: Genroku Chûshingura (元禄忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/81
Print Date: 04/11/81
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits II (Design 7)]
Daini-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 7
(第二期大首絵シリーズの7)
Personal Collection (#2/36)

Note: 13 copies from the edition of 36 were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 
 

APRIL 1987

                 
Nakamura Tomijûrô V (中村富十郎) as
Tominomori Sukeemon (富森助右衛門)

Play Cycle: Genroku Chûshingura (元禄忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/87
Print Date: 05/1987
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Figures of the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Roku Sugata
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六姿)
Personal Collection (#58/72)
 
 


1989

                   
Horibe Yasubê (堀部安兵衛)

Play Cycle: Genroku Chûshingura (元禄忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1989
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of Hanga Ten