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| Keywords: Ebiya Rinnosuke - Seichu gishi den - Walters 9552 - Detail A.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Ebiya Rinnosuke The tale of the forty-seven loyal warriors is based on events that took place in Japan in the years 1701-03 The warriors vowed to avenge the death of their master Lord Enya Hangan who had been ordered to commit suicide as punishment for drawing his sword and attacking a high official in the palace This official who had in fact provoked Hangan was the evil Moronao Following two years of planning the warriors actually ronin former samurai who have lost their master finally killed Moronao in his home A year later they too were ordered to perform ritual suicide A dramatization of the actual events appeared on the Kabuki stage almost immediately The best-known play Chushingura was written for the puppet theater in 1748 between 1847 1848 late Edo pigments mulberry paper cm 36 2 25 5 accession number 95 52 40876 Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Mr and Mrs C R Snell Jr 1986 Signature Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga The Nature of Loyalty Japanese Warrior Prints of the Nineteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license 2D Japanese prints in the Walters Art Museum Historic samurai prints Ebiya Rinnosuke Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
