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Chushingura: Act V (from the series Perspective Pictures for The Treasure House of Loyalty)

Kitao Masayoshi

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woodblock print, rectangular. Tan background with darker tan border. Black border around inner image. Image features a man wearing a traditional Japanese hat leaning over a body of water that runs on a diagonal toward the bottom right. A woman squats beside the man. Both figures standing on dirt path between fields. Background shows a mountain covered in trees on the left, and trees and low hills on the right. Sky is light-colored on the left and dark on the right. Clouds are visible at top. Vertical Japanese text on right side.

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900 × 660 px
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