Actor triptychs

1850, Part I

 

Actors: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Togane Moemon 

Play: Hatsu gasumi enishi no chochidori (初霞縁蝶鵆)

Date: 1st month of 1850

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

 

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

Actors: Left sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Aogaiya Rokurodayû (青貝屋六郎太夫) and Onoe Baikô IV as his daughter (musume) Okô (娘おかう)

Right sheet: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時)

Play: Kajiwara Heizô Kôbai Tazuna (梶原平三紅梅靮)

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

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

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actor as 梅沢小五郎兵衛

Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Gokuin Senemon (極印仙右衛門)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Ohaya (おはや) and an unidentified actor as the boatman Kajiroku (かじ六)

Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga (三升覣雁金曽我)

Date: 1st month of 1850

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors:  Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Maidzuruya Denzô (舞鶴や伝三) and an unidentified actor as Saizô (才蔵)

Center sheet: Unidentified actors as Banzai (万才) and Shôshô (少々)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Juro Soga (曽我十郎祐成) and Bandô Tamasaburô II as 礼の女

Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga (三升覣雁金曽我)

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Isetsuru

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for locating this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV Akazawa Junai (left), Bandô Shûka I as Tsukisayo (center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Gokuin Senemon (right)

Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga (三升覣雁金曽我)

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tajima-ya Saburô

Actors: Bandô Shiuka I as Kiyokawa (清川, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hotei Ichiemon (ほてい丸の市右衛門, right)

Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga (三升覣雁金曽我)

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Okaei

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actor: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Abe no Sadato (安倍貞任, left) and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Hachimantarô Yoshiie (八幡太郎 義家, right)

Play: Ôshû Adachigahara (奥州安達原)

Date: 1st month of 1850

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi

 

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

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Sadasumi’s wife (tsuma) Sodehagi (貞住妻袖萩) and Ichikawa Saizaburô as daughter (musume) Okimi (娘おきみ)

Play: Ôshû Adachigahara (奥州安達原)

Date: 1st month of 1850

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher:

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Osome (おそめ, left), Iwai Kumesaburô III as Hisamatsu (久松, center), and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Takekawa (竹川, right)

Play: Osome Hisamatsu ukina Yomiuri (お染久松色読販, The Scandalous Love of Osome and Hisamatsu)

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hakoômaru (箱王丸) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Suketsune (祐経)

Play: Sakaomodaka yoroi chôja (沢瀉鎧長者)

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Takasuke (高介) and Onoe Baikô IV as Oden (於でん)

Right sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Jûrô Sukenari (十郎祐成)

Play: Sakaomodaka yoroi chôja (沢瀉鎧長者)

Theater: Ichimura

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Akaneya Hanshichi (茜屋半七, left) and Onoe Baikô IV as Karyû Okatsu (花柳おかつ, right)

Play: Tomigaoka ada no Kanegoto (富岡仇兼言) 

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

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

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Sankatsu (三かつ) with inset of Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Akaneya Hanshichi (あかねや半七)

Play: Tomigaoka ada no Kanegoto (富岡仇兼言) 

Date: 1st month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actors: Left sheet: Iwai Kumetarô III as musume Kinugasa (女仕丁おつゆ 実は重忠娘衣笠)

Right sheet: Asao Okuyama III as Iwanaga imoto Sazanami (女仕丁お鹿 実は岩永妹磯浪) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kagekiyo tsuma Akoya (女仕丁お鹿 実は景清妻あこや)

Play: Arigataya O-Edo no Kagekiyo (難有御江戸景清)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Chichibu Shoji Shigetada (秩父の庄司重忠), Ichikawa Ebijurô IV as Wada no Yoshimori (和田の太郎義盛), and Iwai Kumesaburô III Kinugasa (Shigetada’s sister, 重忠の妹衣笠)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Aku Shichibee Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清), and Ichikawa Saruzô I as Yoshitoki (江間の小四郎義時)

Right sheet: Onoe Shoroku I (or II) as Tsunetane (千葉之助), Onoe Kikujirô II as sister of Yoshimori (義盛妹あさひ), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Hojo Tokimasa (北條の四郎時政)

Play: Arigataya O-Edo no Kagekiyo (難有御江戸景清)

Date: 3rd month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi

Kuniyoshi - (rising sun) Confronting Ichikawa Ebijurô IV as Yoshimori, in 'Arigataya O-Edo no Kagekiyo', (3)1850

Actors: Unidentified actor as Yamabuki (left), unidentified actor as Tomoe Gozen (巴御前, center), and Ichikawa Ebijurô IV as Wadai Yoshimori (和田良盛, right)

Play: Arigataya O-Edo no Kagekiyo (難有御江戸景清)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Aku Shichibee Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Center sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Tokimasa (北條四郎時政), Iwai Kumesaburô III as sister of Shigetada (重忠娘衣笠), and Ichikawa Gangyoku I as Wada no Tarô Yoshimori (和田の太郎義盛)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Chichibu Shoji Shigetada (秩父の重忠), Onoe Kikujirô II as Kagekiyo tsuma Akoya (景清妻あこや), Ichikawa Saruzô I as Yoshitoki (江間の小四郎義時), and Onoe Shoroku I (or II) as Tsunetane (千葉之助常胤)

Play: Arigataya O-Edo no Kagekiyo (難有御江戸景清)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as onna shicho (female servant) Onami (女仕丁おなみ 実は景清妻あこや) and Bandô Takesaburô I as Hanzawa Rokuro (半沢六郎)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kagekiyo disguised as a biwa player (琵琶法師千寿 実は悪七兵衛景清) and Kawarazki Chôjûrô III as Kagekiyo’s daughter Hitomaru (景清娘人丸)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Chichibu Shoji Shigetada (秩父の庄司重忠) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as 女仕丁おつゆ 実は重忠娘衣笠

Play: Arigataya O-Edo no Kagekiyo (難有御江戸景清)

Date: 3rd month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Omihachiman Nosuke (近江八幡之介) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ohimegimi (大姫君)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Shichibei Kagekiyo (七兵衛景清)

Play: Arigataya O-Edo no Kagekiyo (難有御江戸景清)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Jôshu-ya Kinzô

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as farmer Jihizô (百性 慈悲蔵, left) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as farmer Yokozô (百性 横蔵, right)

Play: Hana no Yukitakeda no Kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱)

Date: 3rd month of 1850

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Saeda Inukiyo (早枝犬喜代, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Takechi Samanosuke (武智左馬之助, center), and Matsumoto Kôshirô VI as Saitô Dôsan (斎藤道三) in aragoto make-up (right)

Play: Hana no Yukitakeda no Kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

 

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

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Minosaku who is in fact Katsuyoru (簑作 実ハ 勝頼, left) and Ichikawa Kadonji IV as Princess Yaegaki (八重垣 姫, right)

Play: Hana no Yukitakeda no Kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Maru-Han

Kuniyoshi - (flames, stone lantern) Three actors in character amid falling firebrands, possibly 'Possibly Hana no yuki Takeda no kachidoki', pub

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼, left), Ichikawa Kadonji IV as Princess Yaegaki (八重垣 姫, center), and an unidentified actor (right)

Play: Hana no Yukitakeda no Kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Ichikawa Komazô VII as the shirozake seller Shinbei (shirozake uri Shinbei, 白酒うり新兵衛)

Play: Hana no Yukitakeda no Kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

 

NOTE: Shirozake is a sweet white sake, and the text on the bucket reads Yamakawa Shirozake (山川白酒), which may be a brand of sake.  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Jusaburô II as Saruwaka (猿若, left) and Nakamura Kanzaburô XII as the daimyô (大名, right)

Play: Hana no Yukitakeda no Kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Isetsuru

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Dannosuke V as midai Fujinokata (藤の方) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kumagai nyobo Sagami (女房さがみ)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagi Jiro Naozane (熊谷治郎直実)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Gangyoku I as Genkuro Yoshitsune (源よしつね)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Kuniyoshi - L-Ichikawa Dannosuke V as Fujinokata, Ebizô V as Naozane; C-Ichikawa Manakotama I as Yoshitsune, Onoe Kikujirô II as Kumagai nyobo Sagami; R-Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yaheibee Munekiyo (3)1850, 100-4870to2

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Dannosuke V as midai Fujinokata (藤の方) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Rensei (熊谷蓮生坊)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Gangyoku I as Genkuro Yoshitsune (源よしつね) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kumagai nyobo Sagami (女房さがみ)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yaheibee Munekiyo (弥平兵衛宗清)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magome with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher:

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Tamao hime (玉折姫, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷治郎直実, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke

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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷治郎直実, left), Ichikawa Saruzô I as Mukan Dayu Atsumori (無官太夫平敦盛, center), and Asao Okuyama III as Hirayama Mushadokoro Sueshige (平山武者所季重, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magone with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

 

NOTE: This design exists both as a kabuki actor triptych (above) and as a warrior triptych, which is listed in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) as T228.  The faces of Kumagai Naozane and Hirayama Mushadokoro Sueshige are quite different in the two editions:

 

 

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Renshô-bô (熊谷次郎直実, left), Ichikawa Saruzô I as Mukan Dayu Atsumori (無官太夫あつ盛, center), and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Tamao hime (玉折姫, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mura and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

Another state of the center sheet from the above triptych

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷次郎直実) and Ichikawa Saruzô I as Mukan Dayu Atsumori (無官太夫あつ盛)

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Tamao hime (時忠息女玉織姫) and Asao Okuyama III as Hirayama no Mushadokoro Sueshige (平山 武者所 季重)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Renshô-bô (熊谷次郎直実, foreground) and Ichikawa Saruzô I as Mukan Dayu Atsumori (無官太夫あつ盛, in distance on right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Muraya with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Saruzô I as Mukan Dayu Atsumori (無官太夫あつ盛)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Right sheet: Asao Okuyama III as Hirayama no Mushadokoro Sueshige (平山 武者所 季重) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Tamao hime (玉織姫)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi

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