- Title:
- The “Chopping the Pine Tree” scene
- Artist:
- Keisai Eisen
- Date:
- Late Edo Period（19th C.）
- Size:
- Notes:
- Number:
- E-141
This painting portrays the “Honzo Chops a Pine Tree at Momonoi ‘s Mansion” scene from Act 2 of a kabuki play titled Kanadehon Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers). Retainer Honzo Kakogawa cuts a branch off a pine bonsai tree and urges his lord Wakasanosuke Mononoi to do the same to a villain wh
