Actor triptychs 1833,

Part II

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danzô V as Satsuma Gengobei (さつま げん五兵へ) and Kataoke Ichizô I as Yasuke (やすけ)

Right sheet: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Sasano Sangobei (さゝの さんこ兵へ)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Sheet from another state of the above design

Actors: Ichikawa Danzô V as Satsuma Gengobei (left) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Sasano Sangobei (right)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych.

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Sadaka (さだか, left) and Ichikawa Danzô V as Daihanji Kyozumi (大判司, right)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Sadaka (さだか)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher:

I am grateful to Patricio Lynch for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Danzô V as Eboshiori Motome (烏帽子折求女, left), Nakayama Mijoshi I (中山みよし) as Omiwa (お三輪, center), and Bandô Mitsugorô III as Kanawa Gorô Imakuni (金輪五郎今国, right)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Kataoka Ichizô I as Soga no Iruka (曽我の入鹿)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher:

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Nakayama Mijoshi I (中山みよし) as Sakeya musume (daughter of) Omiwa (酒や娘お三輪)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sôshû-ya Yohei

NOTE: These woodblocks were reused for the 1836 production of the same play, with the actor’s name changed to Iwai Tojaku I and the face recut.

Actors: Onoe Eizaburô III (尾上栄三郎) and Segawa Kikusaburô III (瀬川菊三郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

NOTE: Other prints with layouts very similar to this may be found at Polyptychs of four or more sheets.

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Momoi Wakasanosuke (桃の井わかさ之助, left) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Kôno Moronao (高の師直, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Wakasanosuke (若狭之助, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Amatsunoya Gihei (天 のや義平, left) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Kawanoya Gihei (right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information about this diptych.

Actors: Matsumoto Taisaku I (松本 たい助) as Yoichibei (与市兵衛, left) and Ichikawa Komazô V as Ono no Sadakurô (定九郎, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Iwai Hanshirô VI as Sonoyoshi (げいしや園吉, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Naosuke (直助, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Kawanoya Gihei (川のや平三 後ニ天川や義平, left), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Amatsunoya Gihei (天野や義七 後ニ天川や義平, center), and Iwai Hanshirô VI as Gihei’s wife Sonoyoshi (仲町の芸者園吉 後ニ義平女房おその, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Kaya no Sanpei (萱野三平, left), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Naosuke (直助, center), and Iwai Hanshirô VI as Oyoshi (およし, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Onoe Matsusuke III as Yoshimatsu’s boatman Igo, actually Okano Kujûrô (Yoshimatsu no sendo Igo Jitsu ha Okano Kujûrô, よし松の船頭伊吾 実ハ岡野九十郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and to Lucienne Parkan for information about the print.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Fuwa Kazuemon (不破数右衛), Sôriyô Jinroku II as Hara Goemon (原郷右衛), Bandô Sojûrô as Sagisaka Bannai (鷺坂伴内), Onoe Matsusuke III as Sato Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂), and Bandô Senzô as Sezaemon (瀬左衛門)

Center sheet: Onoe Kikugorô III as Kô no Moronao (高の師直), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助), Ichikawa Shogorô II as Senzaki Yagorô (千崎弥五郎), Bandô Matahachi as Satashichi (貞七), and Bandô Tsuchitarô as Daigo (大吾)

Right sheet: an unidentified actor of the Ôtani line (大谷 曽平) as Gonroku (権六), an unidentified actor of the Bandô line (尾上 多賀十郎) as 伝左衛, an unidentified actor of the Ichikawa line (市川 限兵衛) as 友太, Seki Sanhei as 孫之丞, Onoe Keizô as Sado (佐太夫), Onoe Iwagorô as Denzô (伝蔵), an unidentified actor of the Matsumoto line (松本 五郎市) as Sukeemon (助右衛門), Onoe Harugorô as Isuke (伊助), Onoe Baigorô as 矢間重太郎, and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力弥)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above design without actor’s names.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Kumonryû no Chôgorô (九紋りやうの長五郎, left), Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門, center), and Sawamura Tosshô I as Tofuya no Sanfu (とうふやの三ふ, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

NOTE: The actor’s name and role have been removed from the center sheet. This indicates that it was probably reprinted for another production, possibly Hana butai yoshiya otoko (花舞台丹前侠客), 3^rd month of 1835. I am grateful to Luuk Dijkhuis for the center sheet.

Actors: Iwai Tojaku as the courtesan (keisei) Katsuragi (けいせい かつらき, left) and Nakamura Shikan II as Nagoya Sanzo (名古屋山三, center), and Mimasu Gennosuke I as the retainer (shimobe) Shikazô (下ツ鹿蔵, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Davor Solter for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Shikan II as Nagoya Sanzo (名古屋山三, left) and Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

Actors: Iwai Tojaku as the waitress Oyama (仲居 おやま, left), Nakamura Shikan II as Nagoya Sanzo (名古屋山三, center), and Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Banzaemon (不波伴左衛門, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

NOTE: This triptych was recut for a production of Hana butai yoshiya otoko in the 3^rd month of 1835. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state without any purple.

Actors: Nakamura Shikan III as Nagoya Sensaburô (left) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Fuwa Banzaemon (right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

Actors: Iwai Tojaku as Matahei’s wife (nyôbo) Osode (又平 女房 おそで, left), Seki Sanjûrô II as the artist Matahei (うき世 又平, center), and Nakamura Shikan II as Rokuji Namuemon in reality Sasarô Sanpachi (六字なむ右衛門 実ハ佐々郎三八, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Daikoku-ya

NOTE: The bird is dropping gold coins, which really were oval.

Actors: Iwai Tojaku as Matahei’s wife (nyôbo) Osode (又平 女房 おそで)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

Actors: Mimasu Gennosuke I as the retainer (shimobe) Shikazô (下ツ鹿蔵, left), Iwai Tojaku as the courtesan (keisei) Otsuraki (けいせい かつらき, center), and Nakamura Shikan II as Nagoya Sanzo (名古屋山三, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ezaki-ya Tatsuzô

NOTE: The right sheet of this triptych was recut and reused for this production of Hana butai yoshiya otoko in the 3^rd month of 1835:

Actors: Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門, left), Mimasu Gennosuke I as the retainer (shimobe) Shikazô (下ツ鹿蔵, center), and Nakamura Shikan II as Nagoya Sanzo (名古屋山三, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Mimasu Gennosuke I as the retainer (shimobe) Shikazô (下ツ鹿蔵, left) and Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門, right)

Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese and Jens Gräske for this image.

Actors: Segawa Tomisaburô III (瀬川 富三郎) as Konami (こなみ, left) and Iwai Hanshirô VI as her mother Tonase (となせ, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 3^rd month of 1833 (probably)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

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