# Chushingura: Act I (from the series Perspective Pictures for The Treasure House of Loyalty)

**Kitao Masayoshi** (Japanese, 1761–1824)  
c. 1790s  
color woodblock print  
Image: 30.5 x 43 cm (12 x 16 15/16 in.); with margins: 33.7 x 46.2 cm (13 1/4 x 18 3/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985.338.1. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.338.1).

## About this work

Kitao Masayoshi designed this in about 1790s, aged about 29. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Colour woodblock print.** In Japan these were a team effort. The artist drew the design, a carver cut it into cherry-wood blocks, one block for each colour, and a printer brushed on the pigment and rubbed each sheet by hand. Full-colour prints of this kind were called nishiki-e, “brocade pictures”, from the 1760s on.

### [Kitao Masayoshi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kitao-masayoshi)

Japanese, 1761–1824

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- The artist was about 29
- Real size: about 12 × 17 in (31 × 43 cm). The 12 × 16 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 18th century
- Movement: [Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/ukiyo-e)
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/736.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/736/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/chushingura-act-i-from-the-series-perspective-pictures-for-t-cma-152519).