Actor triptychs
1815-1829
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon III as Omiwa (おみわ, left) and Ichikawa Ichizô
I as Kanawagorô Imakuni (金ハ五郎今国, right) Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 7th
month of 1815 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon Play: Katakiuchi tsuzure no nishiki (敵討襤褸錦敵討襤褸錦) Date: 9th
month of 1815 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: |
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Actors: Onoe Baikô Play:
Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki
(Kiichi Hôgen’s Book of Strategy, 鬼一法眼三略巻) Date: 10th
month of 1815 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamamoto-ya
Heikichi |
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Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô Play:
Kiyomori Eiga no Utena (清盛栄花台) Date: 11th
month of 1816 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Iwato-ya
Kisaburô NOTE: Each sheet is
signed “Saihôsha Kuniyoshi ga” (採芳舎 国芳 画), a signature
Kuniyoshi used early in his career. |
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Actors: Iwai Hanshirô V as Sakurahime (桜姫,
left)
and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Tsurigane Gonsuke
(right) Play: Sakura Hime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章) Date: 3rd
month of 1817 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: |
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Actors: Play:
Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸桜, Sukeroku, Flower of Edo) Date: 3rd
month of 1819 Theater: Tamakawa Publisher: NOTE: This print is
about 13 by 5 inches (33 by 14.5 centimeters), a size known as hosoban. |
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Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎) Play:
Kiku
no entsuki no shiranami (菊宴月白浪) Theater:
Kawarazaki Date:
9th month of 1821 Publisher:
Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô I am grateful to John
Scott for this image and to Robert Pryor for information about the print. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichikawa Danjûrô Right sheet: Iwai Shijaku I as Izayoi no Rin, wife of Sanpei Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 1st
month of 1824 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Azuma-ya
Daisuke |
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Actors: Iwai Shijaku
I as Onoe (尾上, left) and Ichikawa
Danjûrô VII as Iwafuji (岩藤, right) Play:
Botan
ni cho itsuka fumibako (牡丹蝶初筐) Date: 3rd
month of 1824 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Azuma-ya
Daisuke NOTE: The character called Onoe (尾上) in this play us usually
called Ohatsu (お初). I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this
image. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Onoe Kikugorô Right sheet: Onoe Kikugorô Play:
Hanagumori sato no getakasa (花曇艶街下駄傘, Wooden
Sandals and Umbrellas on a Cloudy Day amidst Cherry Blossoms) Date: 3rd
month of 1824 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Azuma-ya
Daisuke |
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Actors:
Left sheet: Segawa Kikunojô V as the geisha Osaku Right sheet: Ichikawa
Monnosuke III as the geisha Oyoshi (standing) ans Iwai Kumesaburô II as the kamuro
Chidori Play:
酒償色三肩（possibly read as Sadashi Mashiro no Sanmai） Date:
5th month of 1824 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Azuma-ya Daisuke I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan
for this image. |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô II as the courtesan Koman (けいしやだつきの小まん, left), Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Satsuma Gengobê (さつま源五兵衛 実ハ不破数右衛門, center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Sasanoya
Sangorô (笹のや舟頭三五郎, right) Play: Kamikakete Sango
taisetsu (盟三五大切) Theater: Nakamura Date: 9th
month of 1825 Publisher: Matsumura Tatsuemon I am grateful
to Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
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Actors: Onoe Kikugorô
Play: Keisei Date no Kikigaki (けいせい伊達抄) Date: 1st
month of 1826 Theater: Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya
Shôzô |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô II as wife (nyôbô)
Otoku (女房 お徳, left), Seki Sanjûrô II in his farewell performance (before going on
tour) as Matahei (onagori
Matahei, 御名残又平, center), and Mimasu Morizô as the
maidservant (gejo, 下女, right) Play: Keisei hangonkô (けいせい反魂香) Date: 9th
month of 1826 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Matsumura
Tatsuemon I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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Actors: Segawa Kikunojô V as Kojorô (小女郎) Play: Keisei hangonkô
(けいせい反魂香) Date: 9th
month of 1826 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Matsumura
Tatsuemon I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image. |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (left), Bandô Mitsugorô III (center),
and Iwai Kumesaburô II (right) in unidentified
roles Play:
Ise Heishi Rishô no kaomise
(伊勢平氏恵顔鏡) Date:
11th month of 1826 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image. |
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Another state of the above design |
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Actors:
Bandô
Mitsugorô III (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VII
(center), and Iwai Kumesaburô II (right) in unidentified roles Play:
Ise Heishi Rishô no kaomise (伊勢平氏恵顔鏡) Date:
11th month of 1826 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Matsumura
Tatsuemon I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image. |
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Actors: Sawamura Tosshô
I as Shirasuka Rokurô leaning on a naginata
(left), Ôtani Tomoemon II as Saito Dozan holding a scroll (center), and
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼) standing near
a house (right) Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝, 24 Examples
of Filial Piety in Japan) Date: 3rd
month of 1827 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Yamada-ya
Shôbei |
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Triptych title: Nissaka Station Area [on the Tokaido] (Nissaka Iriyama Tsumura no
ba, 日坂入山津村の場) Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô Play: Hitori tabi Gojusan tsugi (独道中五十三駅) Date: 6th
month of 1827 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya
Uhei NOTE: The flames
indicate that there is something supernatural happening |
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Triptych title: The Scene of the Suzuka
Mountains at Minakuchi and the Noji Jewel River at
Kusatsu (水口すゞか山場 草津のぢの玉川, Minakuchi Suzukayama
no ba, Kusatsu Noji no Tamagawa) Actors:
Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô Center sheet: Onoe Kikugorô Right sheet: Onoe Kikugorô Play:
Hitori tabi Gojusan tsugi (独道中五十三駅) Date:
6th month of 1827 Theater:
Kawarasaki Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tobei |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this variant of the above design. |
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Actors: Bandô Tamasaburô as the
courtesan Higaki (おはん, left) and Onoe Kikugorô
Play: Hitori tabi Gojusan tsugi (独道中五十三駅) Date: 6th month
of 1827 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi I am grateful to Robert Pryor for information about this diptych. |
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Sheet from another state of the above design
without floorboards. |
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Actors:
Left sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô II as Gihei’s wife Osono (おその) Right sheet: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VII as Gihei (儀兵衛) and Bandô Mitsugorô III as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) Play:
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Act 10 Theater:
Ichimura Date:
7th month of 1827 Publisher:
Kawaguchi-ya Uhei I am grateful to
Milan Kulheim for the left sheet, to Lucienne Parkan for the right sheet, and to Horst Graebner for
information about the diptych. |
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Actors:
Iwai Kumesaburô
II as Okaru (おかる) Play: Kanadehon
Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Act VII Date: 7th
month of 1827 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Takahashi-ya Takakichi (榮 高橋屋) NOTE: The
identification of the performance is tentative. Iwai Kumesaburô
II played the role of Okaru four times: 1825, 1827,
1830 and 1832. An additional problem
is that, according to Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A
Compendium by Andreas
Marks, the
publisher Takahashi-ya Takakichi was active c.
1844-1847, suggesting that the woodblocks were purchased from the original
publisher and reissued. I am grateful
to Frederik Balhuizen and Josta Klaassen for this image, and to
Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information
about the print. |
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Actors: Segawa Kikunojô V (left), Nakamura Shikan II (center) and Iwai
Hanshirô V (right) Play: Kinbusen Yosooi Genji (金峯山艶色源氏) Date: 11th
month of 1827 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Kaga-ya
Kichiemon |
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Actors: Arashi Kamenojô II as Tamao hime (玉折姫, left) and
Nakamura Shikan II as Kumagai Jiro Naozane (熊谷次郎直実, right) Play:
Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記) Date: 3rd
month of 1828 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Bandô
Mitsugorô Play: Ehon gappô gatsuji (絵本合法衢) Date: 9th
month of 1828 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya
Uhei NOTE: The object in
the left-upper corner is a group of straw sandals (waraji, 草鞋 ) bound together. |
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Actor: Ichikawa
Komazô V as Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸), Gengobei (源五兵衛), Sangobei (三五兵衛), Kisanta (喜三太), and as ☆ヶ谷 Date: 1828 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya
Shôzô |
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