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Utagawa Toyoharu, artist
Japanese, 1735 - 1814
Night Attack on Kira's Mansion by the 47 Ronin (Chushingura, Act XI), circa 1770
color woodcut
35.8 x 48.5 cm (image)
Carlotta Mabury Collection 1964.141.1098

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Artist Biography: other names used: Utagawa Masaki, Shin'emon, Tajimaya Shojiro, Ichiryusai, Sen'o, Senryu-sai, Shojiro, Shoju, Toyoharu; Ukiyo-e painter, printmaker; studied in Kyoto under the Kano master Tsuruzawa Tangei; from about 1763 studied under Shigenaga and Toriyama Sekien in Edo; his earliest works were prints, but in the 1780's and 90's did paintings pioneering in views of foreign lands; did some prints after Dutch and German engravings;

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