Utagawa Hiroshige. The Night Attack, Part 2 Breaking In (Youchi ni, rannyu), from the series The Revenge of the Loyal Retainers (Chushingura). 1829–1844. Japan. Color woodblock print; oban Here, the ronin break into Kira’s mansion using bamboo poles to pry open the framework around closed shutters. Each ronin wears a black tunic with a white, dog’s tooth border closely resembling the ronin dress in Masayoshi’s final act, also shown nearby. This dress (or uniform) became the standard in almost all of the later ukiyo-e depictions of ronin in a Chûshingura story.

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