Actor triptychs

1851, Part VI

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Misuji no Tsunagorô (三すじの綱五郎, on rock) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Seitaka (矜伽羅童子)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Kongara (せゐたか童子) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Fudo Myôô (成田山不動明王)

Play: Genji Moyô furisada hinagata (源氏模様娘雛形)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Satsuma Gengobei (さつま 源五兵へ) and Arashi Kangorô I as 若者官五

Right sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sasano Sangobei (笹野 三五兵衛) and Onoe Baikô V as Ôya Koman (桜や 小万)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Koman (小まん)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher:

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Gengobei (源五兵衛)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I as female bandit Kishin Omatsu

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsume Shirosaburô

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher:

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Kôzô I as 手下幸蔵, Bandô Shûka I as Jiraya, in reality the ghost of Kishin Omatsu (身来也 実ハ 鬼神 於松) and Kataoka Toragorô I as 手下 とら八

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四郎三郎) and Nakamura Kantarô I as 手下 かん太

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kado (角)

I am grateful to David Walters for the left-hand panel.

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as yakko Isohei (奴磯平)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Jiraya, in reality the ghost of Omatsu (自来也 実ハ 鬼神 於松) and Kataoka Toragorô I as 手下 とら八

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四郎三郎)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke

Image courtesy of Charles-henri Bordeaux

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四良三郎)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as the ghost of Omatsu (鬼神於松) and Arashi Kishisaburô III as Natsune Zaemon (夏目四郎左衛門)

Right sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as yakko Isohei (奴磯平)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as yakko Isohei (奴磯平)

Right sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四良左エ門) and Bandô Shûka I as the ghost of Omatsu (鬼神 之 於松)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Ichimisai musume Osono (一味斎娘おその, left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助, right)

Play: Hana momiji kora no yaegaki (花楓高良重賀紀)

Date: 11^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Actors: Kataoka Gadô II as Chichibujirô Shigetada (秩父治郎 重忠, left), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Bôzukibashichi (猪ノ志々坊主木場七, center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Aku Shichibee Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清, right)

Play: Kagekiyo (probably a shortened form of a longer title)

Date: 11^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Actors: Arashi Rikan III as Ono no Tofu (left) looking at a jumping frog

Play: Shu no haru kabuki no kakizome (周春戯書始)

Date: 11^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

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