Actor triptychs

1851, Part II

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as Yamanaya Soubei (山名屋 惣兵衛)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名屋浦里)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tokijirô, in reality Satô Yomoshichi (時次郎 実ハ 佐藤 与茂七) and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Midori (みどり)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Echizen-ya Hachiemon

Actors: Left sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Yamanaya Soubei (山名や惣兵衛), Nakayama Bungorô II as Yaritenokaya (やりてかや), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tokijirô, in reality Satô Yomoshichi (in circle)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kasugaya Tokijirô (春日屋 時次郎) and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi (かつみ)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名屋 浦里)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kasugaya Tokijirô (春日や時次郎 実ハ佐藤与茂七)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名や浦里) and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi (しうか かつみ)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tokijirô, in reality Satô Yomoshichi (時次郎 実ハ 佐藤 与茂七), six year old Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Midori (みどり), and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名屋 浦里)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato, six year old Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Midori, and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名屋 浦里) and Bandô Kichiya as the kamuro Katsumi (禿 かつみ)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kasugaya Tokijirô (春日屋 時次郎) and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as the kamuro Midori (禿 みどり)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

NOTE: “kamuro” (禿 or かむろ) is sometimes politely defined as a courtesan’s child-servant, but preadolescent apprentice is a more correct translation.

Actors: Six-year-old Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Midori (みどり) and Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名や)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名や浦里) and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi (かつみ)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kasugaya Tokijirô, in reality Satô Yomoshichi (かすかや 時次郎 実ハ 佐藤 与茂七)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名や浦里) and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi (かつみ)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tokijirô, in reality Satô Yomoshichi (春日屋 時次郎 実ハ 佐藤 与茂七) and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Midori (みどり)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名や浦里)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kasugaya Tokijirô, in reality, Satô Yomoshichi (かすがや 時次郎 実ハ 佐藤 与茂七), Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Midori (みどり), and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi (かつみ)

Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu (明烏花濡衣)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Maru-ya Jimpachi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Kotsuzumi (小つゞみ, standing) and Bandô Shûka I as Taiko (太鼓)

Right sheet: Ichimura Takenojô V as Utai (謡, standing left), Arashi Kichisaburô III as Otsuzumi (大鼓, standing right), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Fue (笛, sitting)

Play: Jidai Sewa Hina no Danmaku (古今ひなの段幕)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

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

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