Top of page: Act IV (Yodanme), from the series Matched Pictures for The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura ekyôdai), Utagawa Kunisada I, 1859, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Right panel: Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Kō no Moronao and Bandō Shūka I as Kaoyo, from the series The Heroes of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, Utagawa Kunisada, 1855, Birmingham Museum of Art