frowning, falling man wearing blue geometric patterned kimono, with bare legs, at center, being grabbed from behind by a man wearing a black and white garment with triangle patterns and a white headband, holding a sword in front of first man; another standing man wearing similar triangular patterned garment at left, holding a staff; battle scene in background in ULQ with silhouettes of fighting figures in the snow

Eleventh Act, 1860, 5th lunar month

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Actors Kitaoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke (R) and Kō no Moronao (C), and Kataoka Gadō II as Ōboshi Rikiya (L). Related to the play Kanadehon Chūshingura 仮名手本忠臣蔵, performed at the Nakamura Theater in the 4th month of 1860.

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Title
Eleventh Act
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Accession Number
2017.106.20
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 21; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 305.
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frowning, falling man wearing blue geometric patterned kimono, with bare legs, at center, being grabbed from behind by a man wearing a black and white garment with triangle patterns and a white headband, holding a sword in front of first man; another standing man wearing similar triangular patterned garment at left, holding a staff; battle scene in background in ULQ with silhouettes of fighting figures in the snow