Nakamura Kansuke Tadatoki - The 47 Ronin
Nakamura Kansuke Tadatoki by Kuniyoshi Utagawa (1797-1861) - from The Series The 47 Ronin or Forty-seven pictures of loyal retainers'. The revenge of the forty-seven ronin (Shijushichishi), also known as the Ako incident (Ako jiken) or Ako vendetta, is an 18th-century historical event in Japan in which a band of ronin (leaderless samurai) avenged the death of their master
Picture No
14022215
Media ID
45832739
Size
3388px x 5388px
(2.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Postcard - Kuniyoshi Utagawa (1797-1861) - Publisher Ono-Banzaikan, Nichome, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Date
circa 1910s
