Ogata Gekkō · Gishi Shijūshichi Zu · 47 Rōnin ·...

Artist: Ogata Gekkō 尾形月耕 (1859–1920) Series: Gishi shijūshichi zu 義士四十七圖 (Pictures of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers) Title: Isogai Jūrōzaemon 磯貝十郎左衛門 (Isogai Jūrōzaemon Masahisa) Format: Ōban tate-e, approx. 36 × 24 cm Technique: Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and colour on paper Date: Meiji period, 1896–1902 (to be confirmed from the margin colophon) Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi 松木平吉 (margin colophon) Signature: 月耕 (Gekkō), with the artist's seal CONDITION Good colors and strong impression. The paper has minor Soiling/toning and an album backing. Please check the images! About the print Isogai Jūrōzaemon entered Lord Asano's service as a young page and rose to become one of his personal attendants, with a stipend of 150 koku. Because he had been so close to his lord, he was among the most determined members of the league. After the raid he was one of the seventeen rōnin, led by Ōishi Kuranosuke, held in custody at the Edo residence of the Hosokawa lords of Kumamoto. He was the youngest of that group, and he died there by seppuku in 1703. Isogai is one of the best-loved figures in later Chūshingura drama. In Mayama Seika's play "Ōishi's Last Day", he is engaged to a young woman named Omino as part of the cover for the plot, and after his death a koto plectrum is found among his belongings, a sign that his feelings for her were real. The story was later filmed and remains one of the best-known episodes of the legend. In 1702, forty-seven former retainers of Lord Asano of Akō took revenge on Kira Yoshinaka, whose insult had led to their master's forced suicide. They then surrendered and were sentenced to ritual suicide. The story, known as Chūshingura, became Japan's national legend of loyalty. Gekkō's Gishi shijūshichi zu gives one sheet to each of the forty-seven men, with a label stating his rank, stipend and age at death. The set was completed and reissued in 1902 for the 200th anniversary of the vendetta.

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