IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 96029 accession number: P.3195-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 7 September 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Colour print from woodblocks. Oban. 1830s. Signed: Kochoro Kunisada ga with double toshidama seal. Publisher's seal: Kikakudo (Sanoya Kihei). Censor's seal: kiwame. From the series E-kyodai Chushingura (Sibling pictures of the Chushingura) in which scenes from the Kabuki play, Kanadehon Chushingura (Model for Kana Calligraphy: Treasury of the Forty Seven Loyal Retainers) are compared to women engaged in everyday life. In the background is the 'Helmet judging' scene (Kabuto aratame) at the Hachiman shrine in Kamakura. Lady Kaoyo holds the helmet given by the Emperor to the warrior Yoshisada, which she has identified from a choice of forty seven found on the battlefield where he was killed. The shogun wanted to make an offering of his enemy's helmet to the shrine. In the foreground a woman uncovers the usual New Year arrangement of lobster, bitter orange (yuzu), ferns and dwarf bamboo, echoing the depiction of the helmet in the background. The lobster is associated with honourable old age because its body is bent double. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/96029 TECHNIQUES ---------- colour printing TECHNIQUES ---------- woodblock CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Kunisada, Utagawa