Actor triptychs

1849, Part I

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Shikaki Shinsuke (left) and Bandô Shûka I as his wife O-noto (right) holding up a painting of Shôki

Play: Aoto Banashi (青砥調)

Date: 1st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Okaei

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as the official Katai Saburo (right), and Bandô Shûka I as Jurokuyo (left)

Play: Aoto Banashi (青砥調)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Seuki Shinsuke (鹿木申介, left) and Bandô Shuka I as musume Otomi (申介女房おもと, right)

Play: Aoto Banashi (青砥調)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: No seal

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actor as Osame (おさめ), Nakamura Kanemon I in unidentified role, Nakayama Bungorô II as Azadaira (あざ平), and unidentified actor in unidentified role

Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Aoto Fujitsuna (青砥左衛門, top center), unidentified actor as 景空, Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Shisaburô (司三郎

Right Sheet: Bandô Shuka I as musume (daughter) Izayoi (娘十六夜), Seki Sanjûrô III as Kanasashi Tosho (金刺図書), unidentified actor in unidentified role, and unidentified actor as 曽茂七

Play: Aoto Banashi (青砥調)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above triptych.

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Izayoi (十六夜, left) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Shisaburô (司三郎, right)

Play: Aoto Banashi (青砥調)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor and Lucienne Parkan for this two sheets.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yari no Kenzo (鎗の権三, left) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Miuraya no Komurazaki (小紫実ハ白井権八, right)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Another state of the above diptych

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Miurayano Komurazaki (小紫実ハ白井権八, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Kenzo (笹野権三, right)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Shirai Gonpachi and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Kenzo

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台, Suzugamori scene at the execution ground)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Kenzo (笹野権三, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as doctor Teranishi Kanshin (医者 寺西 閑心, right)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as 八重梅 (left), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Miuraya no Komurazaki (白井権八, center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Kenzo (笹野権三, right)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Eikyu-do

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hanshichi (茜たび屋半七, left), Onoe Kikujirô II as the geisha Mikatsu (三日月のおさよ 後二三かつ, center), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Chokuro (茜足袋屋長九郎, right)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Enkakudô

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Shirai Gonpachi standing over Onoe Kikujirô II as Yaeume, the daughter of Sukedayu (Inset: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hanshichi)

Center sheet: Bando Hikosabûrô IV as Nisuke with the spear over his right shoulder and a purse in his mouth (Inset: Onoe Kikujirô II as the geisha Mikatsu)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Kenzo standing and holding a spear with a giant centipede at the end of it (Inset: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Chokuro)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hanshichi (茜たび屋半七, left) Onoe Kikujirô II as Mikatsu (三日月, right)

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

NOTE: The actor’s names are written in ink on the face of these prints. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image and to Lucienne Parkan for information about the diptych.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hanshichi (茜たび屋半七, standing) Onoe Kikujirô II as Mikatsu (三日月), and Ôtani Tomoemon IV (inset) in an unidentified role

Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Maximilian Bürger for this image.

Diptych title: Sangokuken

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Ohide of Kewaizaka (大磯中の丁お秀, female) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tobigashira Kakichi (鳶の頭嘉吉)

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the fortuneteller (uranaisha) Sangokuken (駒形の占者三国)

Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as the quack doctor (taiko isha) Hôfutei (たいこ医者宝富亭) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tobigashira Kakichi (鳶の頭嘉吉, crouching)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Ohide of Kewaizaka (female) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Aoto Fujitsuna

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Oiso of Naka-no-cho and an actor in an unidentified male role

Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Okaei

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Ohide of Kewaizaka (大礒中の町お秀, female), Seki Sanjûrô III as Hôfutei (たいこ医者宝富亭, in black), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tobigashira Kakichi (鳶頭嘉吉)

Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Oiso of Naka-no-cho (left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tobigashira Kakichi (center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Aoto Fujitsuna (right)

Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Oiso of Naka-no-cho (left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tobigashira Kakichi (center), and an unidentified actor (right)

Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as yaoya Oshichi (八百屋娘お七, woman) and Matsumoto Kinshô I as お七兄染五郎 (man)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左エ門伝吉, man) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as gejo Osugi (下女お杉, woman)

Play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this less labor-intensive state of the above design.

Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門伝吉, left) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as yaoya Oshichi (八百屋於七, right)

Play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as gejo Osugi (下女お杉) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as yaoya Oshichi (八百屋娘お七)

Right sheet: Onoe Baiko IV as Kosho Kichizo (小性吉三)

Play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hams and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Left sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as yaoya Oshichi (八百屋娘於七) and an unidentified actor as the groom (馬士)

Right sheet: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Nitta Shiro Tadatsune (仁田四郎忠常) and Matsumoto Kinshô I as Goshaku Somegorô (五尺染五郎)

Play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kiyoimidzu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as priest Shunkan (俊寛僧都, large figure) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Tanzaemon Motoyasu (small figure)

Center sheet: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Senô Tarô Kaneyasu (瀬ノ尾太郎兼康)

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Chidori (薩摩潟ノ千鳥)

Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Keijiriô

Actors: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as priest Shunkan (俊寛僧都, left), Matsumoto Kinshô I as Senô Tarô Kaneyasu (瀬尾太郎, center), and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Chidori (蜑千鳥, right)

Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Okaei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Chidori (left) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as priest Shunkan (俊寛僧都, right)

Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

I am grateful to Marc Devriese for this image

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as priest Shunkan (俊寛僧都)

Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

NOTE: The seals of the censors, Hama and Magome, are printed backwards () instead of correctly ().

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Shinsuke nyobô Omote (申助 女房 おもと, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Seuki Shinsuke (鹿木申助, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as 富屋甚兵衛 (right)

Play: Yoru no tsuru omoi no yukidoke (夜鶴思雪解)

Date: 1^st month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Enkakudô

Actors: Unidentified actors as Tomiya Jimbei (left), Bandô Shûka I as Omote (center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Seuki Shinsuke (right)

Play: Yoru no tsuru omoi no yukidoke (夜鶴思雪解)

Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

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