Actor triptychs 1833,

Part III

Actors: Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Chobei (長兵衛, left), and Iwai Tojaku I as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八, right)

Play: Mitsu Ichô Gozonji no Edo-zome (三銀杏御存地染), the “Suzugamori” scene

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô (川口屋正三)

Actors: Mimasu Gennosuke I as tabakoya (cigarette seller) Genshichi (たばこ屋源七) playing a shamisen

Play: Mitsu Ichô Gozonji no Edo-zome (三銀杏御存地染)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

NOTE: This print was actually designed by Kunisada in 1831. It was reprinted in 1833 with Kuniyoshi’s signature and a few other changes. The original Kunisada print was from a diptich that shows Segawa Kikunojô V as Haginoya no Yaekiri (萩の屋の八重桐, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as tabakoya Genshichi (たばこ屋源七, right) in the play, Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥), performed in the 5^th month of 1831:

I am grateful to and Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information about these prints.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛, left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Mikuniya Kojorô (三国小女郎, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Demura Shinbei (出村新兵衛, right)

Play: Shinbe eshô bukata bira (新兵衛菖蒲帷子)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛, left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Mikuniya Kujurô (三国小女郎, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Demura Shinbei (出村新兵衛, right)

Play: Shinbe eshô bukata bira (新兵衛菖蒲帷子)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Juzô

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Demura Shinbei (出村新兵衛, left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Mikuniya Kujurô (三国小女郎, center), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛, right)

Play: Shinbe eshô bukata bira (新兵衛菖蒲帷子)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

NOTE: The inscription on the stone reads “Mizugami Forest” (水神森). I am grateful to Paul Steier for this image.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as the new boatman of the Tama house (Tamaya sendô shin, 玉屋船頭新) and Iwai Hanshirô VI as Sonokichi (その吉)

Play: Shinjû to tare mo yûdachi (心中誰夕立)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

NOTE: Prints such as these, which are entirely, or almost entirely, in blue are known as aizuri-e. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for identifying this diptych.

Actors: Nakayama Miyoshi as Shizuka Gozen (静御前, left) and Ichikawa Danzô V as Tadanobu Sato (佐藤忠信, right)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Danzô V as Kokingo (小金吾)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image.

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sushiya no Yasuke (すし屋の弥助, left) and Iwai Hanshirô VI as Sushiya Osato (すしやおさと, right)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (義経千本桜)

Date: 5^th month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

NOTE: This diptych was actually designed by Kunisada in 1820 for the performance of Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (below left). It was reused, with some changes, for the 1831 production of the same play (below right), both with Kunisada’s signatures. The third time it was used (above), the signature was changed to that of Kuniyoshi.

Bandô Mitsugorô III as Sushiya no Yasuke & Iwai Kumesaburô II as Sushiya Osato, 5^th month of 1820, signed Kunisada

Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sushiya no Yasuke & Onoe Eisaburô III as Sushiya Osato, 8^th month of 1831, signed Kunisada

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for the above information.

Actor: Bandô Tamasaburô I as Hatsuhana (初花)

Play: Hakone reigen izari no adauchi (箱根霊験蹙仇討)

Date: 6^th month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢) and Bandô Kichijûrô as Sugiyama Daizô (杉山大蔵)

Right sheet: Bandô Tamasaburô I as Aburaya Okon (油屋 おこん)

Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃)

Date: 6^th month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this simplified state of the above design.

Actors: Segawa Tamon II as Koman (小まん, left) and Ichikawa Komazô V as Satsuma Gengobei (さつま源五兵衛, right）

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

NOTE: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime was staged in both the Kawarazaki and Nakamura theaters in the same month with different casts. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actor: Ichikawa Komazô V as Sangobei (三五兵衛, left) and Segawa Tamon II as Koman (小万, right)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actor: Ichikawa Komazô V as Satsuma Gengobei

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Adachi Yasuke (安達弥助, left), Nakamura Shikan II as Satsuma Gengobei (薩摩源五兵衛, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sasano Sangobei (笹の三五兵衛, right)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image of two sheets from an alternate state of the preceding triptych.

Actors: Arashi Kamenojô II as Sakuraya no Koman (桜屋の小まん, left), Nakamura Shikan II as Satsuma Gengobei (さつま源五兵衛, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sasano Sangobei (笹ノ三五兵衛, right)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Edo-ya Matsugorô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Iwai Tojaku as Koman (小万, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sangobei (源五兵衛, right）

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Shikan II as Mihonoya Shiro Kunitosh (三保谷四郎, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kagekiyo (景清, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Daikoku-ya

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Sheet from another state without any purple

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kagekiyo (景清, left) and Nakamura Shikan II as Mihonoya Shiro Kunitosh (三保谷四郎, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Yamashita Kinsaku IV as nyôbô (wife) Sagami (女房さがみ, left), Nakamura Shikan II as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷直実, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源ノ義経, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Yamashita Kinsaku IV as nyôbô (wife) Sagami (女房さがみ, left) and Nakamura Shikan II as Kumagai Jirô Naozane

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Koen De Cock for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源ノ義経)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

NOTE: This print is probably from the same production as the preceding two triptychs.

Actors: Nakamura Shikan II as Mihonoya Kunitoshi (三保谷[国]俊, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kagekiyo (景清, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Segawa Tamon II as Kiitchi Hôgenʼs daughter, Minazuru-hime (みなつる姫, left) and Ichikawa Komazô V as Kisanta (喜三太, right)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image and to Lucienne Parkan for the above information.

Actors: Ichikawa Koisaburô as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

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

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Danshichi

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Seki Sanjûrô II as Issun Tokubei (一寸徳兵衛, left) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Danshichi Kurobei (団七九郎兵衛, right)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)

Date: 7^th month of 1833

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

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