Actor triptychs
1846-1852
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These
actor triptychs and diptychs were published between the 12th month
of 1846 and the 2nd month of 1852, but I have been unable to
associate them with a particular production.
Prints published during this period generally bear two circular
censor’s seals without an oval date seal.
These seals are usually near the artist’s signature, and sometimes are
only found on a single sheet of a multi-sheet composition. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Actors as Shizunome (しづの女) and Zôhei (ぞう兵) Center sheet: Actor as Shizunome (しづの女) Right sheet: Actors as Shizunoo (しづの男) and Kaya-uri (かやうり) Play: Possibly Igagoe Yomikiri koshaku, 2nd month of 1852 Date: 1849-1852
(censors Hama and Magome) Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
information about this triptych. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actors as Shinobu
(しのぶ) and にせあんま三九 Center sheet:
Unidentified actors as Daikokuya Soroku (大黒や宗六) and Jousuke (丈助) Right sheet:
Unidentified actors as Soroku’s wife Okura (宗六女房おくら) and Yomoshichi (与茂七) Play: Possibly Go
taiheiki date no masugata
(碁太平記達升形) Date: c. 1850 (censors Mera and
Murata) Publisher:
Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan for information about this
triptych. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Onoe Shinshichi Center sheet: Right sheet: Play: Date: c. 1850
(censors Hama and Kinugasa) Publisher: Isetsuru (伊勢鶴) NOTE: This triptych is a mitate, meaning that it is an imaginary
scene with actors who never actually appeared together on stage in these
roles. According to the website of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this triptych may have been made to celebrate
the return to Edo of Ichikawa Ebizô V in the 3rd
month of 1850. I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan for information about this
triptych. |
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Actors: Unidentified actor
(left), Onoe Kikugorô Play: Probably Ise ondo
koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃) Date: 1847-1850 (censors Mera
and Murata) Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarôro |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô Date: 1848 (censors
Hama and Kinugasa) NOTE: This diptych
is from the series Select
Series of Book Titles. It is a mitate,
meaning that these actors did not perform these roles together on stage. |
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Title: Imayô Teruuji furudera no kozu
(Up-to-date Teruuji in an Old Picture at an Old
Temple, 今様輝氏古寺之古圖) Actors: In an
abandoned temple, actors as Teruuji (center)
offering a towel to his lover Tasogare (left) with Shinonome (しのゝめ) eavesdropping
(right) Play: A play based
on The Tale of Genji Date: 1849-1850
(censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater: This triptych
is not believed to portray a specific production Publisher: Sawa-ya Kôkichi NOTE: This print is
not damaged; it shows a water damaged sliding door in an abandoned temple. |
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Actors: Play: Date: 1847-1850 (censors Mera and Murata) Publisher: Minato-ya Kohe |
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Actors:
Unidentified actor as a high-ranking courtesan standing on a Kabuki stage
trap-door dressed in an ornate kimono with a tiger in the design Play:
Date:
1849-1852 (censors Hama and Magome) Publisher:
Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Actors: Unidentified actors
as Hako-o Maru (箱王丸,
left), Saburô Kawazu, the spirit of Yudo (河津三郎祐道の霊,
center), and Soga Jûrô (right, 曽我十郎) Play: Date:
1846-1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Actors:
Probably Ickikawa Ebizô V
Play:
Date:
c. 1850 Publisher:
Maru-Han |
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Actors: Arashi Rikan
III as wrestler Hanaregoma no Chôkichi
(放駒長吉, left) and
Nakamura Utaemon IV as wrestler Nuregami
Chôgorô (濡髪長五郎, right) Date: 1846-1852 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: This triptych is believed to be a mitate, meaning
that it is an imaginary scene with actors who never actually appeared
together on stage in these roles. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Inuzuka Shinno (犬坂毛野, left
standing) Center sheet: Right sheet: Unidentified actor as Inuyama
Dôsetsu Tadatomo (犬山道節忠興) Play: Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi |
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Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon
XII (left), Nakamura Utaemon IV (center), and Bandô Shûka I (right) Play:
Possibly Yoshitsune koshigoejô
(義経腰越状) Date:
1847-1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Publisher: Ôta-yaTakichi |
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Actors: Play: Possibly Act
VIII of Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 1846-1852 Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Actors: Ichimura Takenojô V as a yûjo
(prostitute, 遊女) and his son
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as a kamuro Play: Date: 1851 (censors
Muramatsu and Fuku) Publisher: Takada-ya Takezô NOTE: These three prints represent an original
print (left) and two memorial prints (shini-e), derived from the
original. The text on the original
print reads odori zukushi (collection of
dances, 踊り尽くし).
I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for the
images. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (center), and an unidentified actor of the Bandô line (right) Play: Possibly Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産) in the 8th
month of 1849 Date: c. 1849-1850
(censors Hama and Magome) Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
locating this image. |
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I am grateful to Ward Pieters for this image without the actors’
names. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I and Ichimura Uzaemon XII Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV Play: Date: 1847-1848
(censors Hama and Kinugasa) Publisher: |
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Actors: Actor as
Minamoto Yoritomo (源 頼朝) under a pine tree Play: Date: 1850-1851
(with shita-uri seal) Publisher: |
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Diptych title: Picture of Banzui Chobei’s House (幡随長兵衛住家之図) Actors:
Left sheet: Ichikawa
Gangyoku I
as Tsurigane Yazaemon (鐘弥左衛門, rear) and Nakamura Tsuruzô
I as Hanjimono
Kihei (はんじ物喜兵衛) Right sheet: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Banzui Chobei
(幡随長兵衛) and Bandô Takesaburô I as Tôken Gombei (唐犬権兵衛, standing) Play: Possibly Kakitsubata Tamuke no Hanakawado Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô |
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Actors: Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: c. 1848 Publisher: Kame-ya Iwakichi NOTE: This print is
alternate state of a design in the warrior series Origins
of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai |
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Actors: Unidentified actors as Sanada Yoichi (真田与市) with Matano Gorô (股野五郎) in background Date:
1846-1852 Publisher: No seal I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII
(left), Nakamura Utaemon IV (center), and Bandô Shûka I (right) Play:
Possibly Yoshitsune koshigoejô
(義経腰越状) Date:
1847-1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Publisher: Ôta-yaTakichi |
