- Artist
歌川国芳
- Title
- 忠臣蔵十一段目夜討之図
- Year
- 1831年頃
- Medium
- 木版色摺
- Dimensions/duration
- 25.4×37.2, 1枚
- Collection
- 神戸市立博物館Kobe City Museum
- Notes
- 仮名手本忠臣蔵のクライマックス、雪夜に大星由良之助をはじめとする義士たちが主人の敵である高師直の館を襲撃する場面。忠臣蔵をテーマとした浮世絵の多くが歌舞伎に取材した芝居絵で、館内部での乱闘ぶりを描くものが多いのですが、本図は、雪の街路から塀を登り、館内への侵入を試みる義士たちの姿を描いてはいます。表題がなければ忠臣蔵の場面とは認識できない光景で、雪に覆われているとは言え、当時の日本の武家屋敷としては異様な雰囲気があります。<br/><BR/>長崎に舶来し、石川大浪→歌川国芳と伝来したと思われる、オランダの地理書・ニューホフ『東西海陸紀行』の銅版挿図のひとつ、「バタヴィアの町の役人と職人の家」を転用しています。オランダ風とも東南アジア風とも言える異国の住宅を高師直の城館に、オランダ人を大星由良之助に描き換えています、さらに椰子を松に、南国の強い日差しにみちた空を満月の冬空に置き換え、熱帯バタヴィアの風景を、雪景色のなかの緊迫感溢れる討ち入りの瞬間に変身させています。<br/><br/>【江戸の絵画】The climax of "Kanadehon Chushingura," a scene in which Ooboshi Yuranosuke and other loyal warriors attack the mansion of Takashinao, an enemy of their master, on a snowy night. While most ukiyoe paintings on the theme of Chushingura are theatrical paintings based on Kabuki plays and depict a brawl inside the mansion, this painting depicts the Yoshinin warriors climbing a wall from a snowy street and attempting to enter the mansion. Without the title, the scene would be unrecognizable as a scene from Chushingura, and although covered in snow, it has an unusual atmosphere for a samurai residence in Japan at the time. <BR/><BR/>This painting is based on one of the copperplate illustrations from the Dutch geography book, Nieuwhoff's "East-West Sea-Land Travels," which is thought to have been imported to Nagasaki and passed down from Ishikawa Onami to Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and is entitled "Houses of officials and craftsmen in Batavia. The artist has replaced the exotic houses, which could be described as Dutch or Southeast Asian in style, with Takashinao's castle house, and the Dutchman with Yuranosuke Ohboshi. He has also replaced the palms with pine trees and the strong tropical sunlight with a full-moon winter sky, transforming the tropical Batavian landscape into a tense moment of battle amidst a snowy landscape. <br/><br/>[Edo Paintings
- Data extracted from Bunka Isan Dētabēsu (Cultural Heritage Database) by Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō). Extracted January 21, 2022.
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