Actor triptychs

1839

 

 

Diptych title: 浄瑠璃 沢紫の水上に浮名を流す龍田川 濃楓色三股

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Tosshô I as Ashikaga Yorikane (足利よりかね) with musicians  常磐津 小文字太夫 II and 常磐津 組太夫

Right sheet: Onoe Eizaburô III as the courtesan Takao (けいせい高尾) with musicians 佐々木 市太郎 and 佐々木 八五郎

Play: Date kurabe wakayagi Soga

Theater: Kawarazaki

Date: 1st month of 1839

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as nyôbô Otoha (女房 おとは, left), Arashi Rikan II as Iwakawa (岩川, center), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Tetsugatake (鉄ヶ嶽, right)

Play: Haruzu môhi iki no koa bure (春相撲御摂顔触)

Theater: Ichimura

Date: 2nd month of 1839

Publisher: Edo-ya Matsugorô

Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as Izayoi (十六夜, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Inada Kozo (稲田幸蔵, right)

Play: Iwai uta Soga no kaomise (岩井歌曽我対面)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 2nd month of 1839

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as both Suzume Odori (雀踊, left) and as a candy vendor (飴売, right)

Play: Hanagoyomi iro no showake (花翫暦色所八景)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 3rd month of 1839

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

 

NOTE: This appears to be two sheets from a triptych

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the Dragon Princess and also as the boatman

Play: Hanagoyomi iro no showake (花翫暦色所八景)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 3rd month of 1839

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Sawamura Tossho I as Kinshojô (錦祥女, left), Ichikawa Danzô V as Gojogun Kanki (甘輝, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Watonai sankan (和藤内, right)

Play: Kokusenya kassen (国姓爺合戦, The Battle of Coxinga)

Theater: Kawarazaki

Date: 3rd month of 1839

Publisher: Ise-ya Sanjirô

Actors: Onoe Eizaburô III as Magaki (まがき, left), Sawamura Tosshô I as yakko Tsumahira (妻平, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Dankurô (団九郎, right)

Play: Toki nisa iwai sakura no irodoki (則幸桜色薗)

Theater: Karawasaki

Date: 3rd month of 1839

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as wife Sekijo (女房関女, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Gotobei (五斗兵衛, center), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Senzaburô (泉三郎, right)

Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoe-jô (義経腰越状, Yoshitsune’s Letter from Koshigoe)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 4th month of 1839

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô

Actors: Ichikawa Komazô V as Issun Tokubei (一寸徳兵衛, left), Ichikawa Yaozô V as Tsurifune (つりふねの三婦, center), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Danshichi Kurobei (団七 九郎兵衛, right)

Play: Natsu matsuri Naniwa kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)

Date: 5th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as Issun Tokubei (一寸徳兵衛, left), Onoe Eizaburô III as Danshichi nyobo Okaji (女房おかぢ, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Danshichi Kurobei (団七, right)

Play: Natsu matsuri Naniwa kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)

Date: 5th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Danshichi Kurobei (団七 九郎兵衛)

Play: Natsu matsuri Naniwa kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)

Date: 5th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Onoe Eizaburô III as Danshichi nyobo Okaji (おかぢ, left), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Danshichi Kurobei (団七 九郎兵衛, center), and Kataoke Ichizô I as Mikawaya Giheiji (義平次, right)

Play: Natsu matsuri Naniwa kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)

Date: 5th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Kataoke Ichizô I as Mikawaya Giheiji (義平次, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Danshichi Kurobei (団七 九郎兵衛, right)

Play: Natsu matsuri Naniwa kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)

Date: 5th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as kamiyui Shinshichi (新七, left) and Iwai Shijaku I as the geisha Osame (げいしゃおさわ, right)

Play: Chuko gishi no Yurai (忠孝義士由良意)

Date: 7th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Yaozô IV as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (若狭之助) and Iwai Shijaku I as Lady Kaoyo (かほよ御ぜん)

Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kôu no Moronao (師直)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Enya Hagwan Takasada (塩谷判官)

Play: Chuko gishi no Yurai (忠孝義士由良意)

Date: 7th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sôshû-ya Yohei

 

NOTE: Scene is like the first act of Kanadehon Chûshingura

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as kamiyui Shinshichi (博多新七) and Ichikawa Yaozô V as 行司庄三郎

Center sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Nagatoya Kohee (長門屋小兵衛) and Bandô Sajûrô as 福島や佐兵衛

Right sheet: Seki Kasuke as 森山郡兵衛 and Iwai Shijaku I as the geisha Osame (芸者 おさめ)

Play: Daishigawara... (大師河原利棲櫛)

Date: 7th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Tossho I as 尾上之助

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as 下部初平

Right sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as 岩藤左衛門

Play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome (其往古恋江戸染)

Date: 7th month of 1839

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Katsugorô (勝五郎, left) and Arashi Kishisaburô III as 滝口上野 (right)

Play: Hakonegon genrei genki (箱根権現霊験記)

Date: 8th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi 

 

NOTE: The right-hand sheet was recut from woodblocks illustrating the play Kuruwa kuru date no Oyose.  The face and text were altered from the original published in the 2nd month of 1836.

Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yodohira (よど平, left), Iwai Shijaku I as ぎをんのお梶 (center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the ghost Seigen (清玄, right)

Play: Sekai ha Yoshida Sato no inazuma (世吉田花街稲妻)

Date: 9th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Single sheet from another state of the above triptych

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Monogusa Taro (物草太郎)

Right sheet: Nakamura Kaharu as nyôbô Katsuragi (山三女房 かつらき) and Asao Okuyama II as 長谷部雲谷

Play: Sekai ha Yoshida Sato no inazuma (世吉田花街稲妻)

Date: 9th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô

Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as 御国御前 (left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門, right)

Play: Sekai ha Yoshida Sato no inazuma (世吉田花街稲妻)

Date: 9th month of 1839

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Another state of the above diptych

  

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