Actor triptychs

1853

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sanshichiro Yoshitaka (三七郎義孝)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Seki Sanjûrô III, and Ichikawa Komazô VII

Play: Kozote Kuruwa Mimasu no date zome (襷廓三升伊達染)

Date: 1^st month of 1853

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi

NOTE: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII played nine different roles in this production

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Hirogorô I and 2 other actors

Center sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Higuchi (Jirô) Kanemitsu and Bandô Takesaburô I as Yukioka Fuyujirô (雪岡冬次郎)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as 大友刑部宗連 and Ichikawa Dannosuke V as 蔭沢夏之丞

Play: Shiranui monogatari (しらぬひ譚)

Date: 2^nd month of 1853

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Dannosuke V as 蔭沢夏之丞 and Arashi Kunigorô I as 荒鉄太刀蔵

Center sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Aoyagi Shunnosuke (青柳春之助), Ichikawa Hirogorô I as 宇壺矢九郎 and Ichikawa Daijirô as 下部がん助

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as 大友刑部宗連 and Bandô Takesaburô I as Yukioka Fuyujirô (雪岡冬次郎)

Play: Shiranui monogatari (しらぬひ譚)

Date: 2^nd month of 1853

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Funakoshi jitsuwa Wakana hime (船越実ハ若菜姫)

Right sheet: Arashi Rikan III as Genkai Nadaemon (玄海滝右衛門), Arashi Rikaku II as Washizu Rokurô (鷲津六郎), and Bandô Takesaburô I as Wachizu Shichorô (鷲津七郎)

Play: Shiranui monogatari (しらぬひ譚)

Date: 2^nd month of 1853

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô

Actors: Miyagino (宮城野), who together with her younger sister Shinobu is taking revenge on her father’s murderer, Shiga Danshichi (志賀団七)

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Date: 4^th month of 1853

Theater:

Publisher: Mori-ya Jihei

Title: Ushi no toki mairi (Two-o’clock in the morning prayer [to curse a person to death])

Actors: Unidentified actor in dress of incantation with candles on his head, a mirror breast-plate, hammer, nails and straw doll, possibly as either Mashita Nagamori or Kume no Heiemon

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Date: 6^th month of 1853 (date seal)

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Play: Possibly Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi

Date: 8^th month of 1853 (date seal)

Theater:

Publisher: Ki-ya Sôjirô

Title of triptych: The Tale of Shiraishi: The Revenge (Shiraishibanashi katakiuchi no zu, 白石噺敵討の図)

Actors: Iwai Kumesabûrô III as the courtesan Miyagino and Nakamura Tomijûrô II as her sister Shinobu taking their revenge on Kyôgoku Takumi who killed their father Yoshioka Ichimisai

Play: Kana kyodai musume adauchi

Date: 10^th month of 1853

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Saruzô I as Komachi hime (小町姫, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as seki Sekibei (関兵衛, center sheet), and Ichikawa Komazô VII as Munesada (宗貞, right)

Play: Tsumoru koi yukino seki no to (積恋雪関扉)

Date: 11^th month of 1853

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

NOTE: This is a modified version of a design that was originally published for Tsumoru koi yuki no seki no to in the 11^th month of 1846.

Actors: Unidentified actors as Tokiwa-gozen and her children in the snow

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Date: 12^th month of 1853

Theater:

Publisher: Izutsu-ya Shôkichi

NOTE: This triptych is listed in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) as warrior triptych No. T308, based on seeing a single sheet. However, the privately published supplement states “This turns out to be a theatrical triptych, the production so far unidentified”.

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