Actors’ Caricatures Scribbled on Walls
Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô of Horiye-chô
1847-1848
Kuniyoshi produced only two
triptychs and one diptych in this genre.
One triptych is titled ‘Laughing Actors Scribbled on a Wall’, while the
diptych and the other triptych are titled ‘Scribblings on the Storehouse
Wall’. The title word nitakaragura in
the title is a pun on the words nita kara, meaning ‘Don’t they
resemble them?’ These prints are listed
as numbers 179 and 182 in Kuniyoshi
by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). Each panel is about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25
centimeters), a size known as ôban.
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Title:
Laughing White Faces Scribbled on a Wall (Haku mensô kabe no mudagaki)
Date: 1848
Key:
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1. Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII
2. Nakayama Bungorô II
3. Bandô Shûka
4. Bandô Mitsugorô IV
5. Ichikawa Kodanji IV
6. Ichimura Uzaemon XII
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1. Nakamura
Utaemon IV
2. Nakayama Genjûrô
3. Onoe Kikujirô II
4. Iwai Kumesaburô III
5. Seki Sanjûrô III
6. Ichikawa Kuzô II
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1. Sawamura Sôjûrô V
2. Ôtani Tomoemon IV
3. Onoe Tamizô II
4. Matsumoto Kôshirô VI
5. Onoe Baikô IV (Kikugorô IV)
6. Ôtani Hiroemon V
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Title:
Scribblings on the Storehouse Wall (Nitakaragura kabe no mudagaki)
Date: 1847
Key:
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1. Bandô Sajûrô
2. Ichikawa Dannosuke
V
3. Nakamura Tsuruzô
4. Nakamura Kantarô
5. Sawamura Ujûrô
6. Nakamura Kanemon
7. Ichikawa Hakoemon
8. Ichikawa Hirogorô
9. Kataoka Toragorô
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1. Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tsukimoto Inaba Kôsuke in the play Onoe
Baiju ichidai banashi
2. Matsumoto Kôshirô VI as Yokogawa Kakuha in Yoshitsune senbon
sakura
3. Nakamura Utaemon IV as Satô Tadanobu Kakuha in Yoshitsune
senbon sakura
4. Ichikawa Shinsha
5. Sawamura Ujûrô Jagatara Sanzô in the play Sawamura
saki hakata no hanabishi
6. Bandô Shûka
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1. Seki Sanjûrô III
2. Onoe Baikô IV (Kikugorô IV) as Hanazono in
the play Saitô Tarôzaemon
3. Sawamura Sôjûrô V as
Seishichi, an assistant in a furniture shop in
the play Onoe Baiju
ichidai banashi
4. Osagawa Tsuneyo IV
5. Nakayama Genjûrô
6. Ôtani Hiroemon V
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NOTE: This
famous triptych is known as ‘the dancing cat triptych’, and its central panel
is known as ‘the dancing cat print’.
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Title:
Scribblings on the Storehouse Wall (Nitakaragura kabe no mudagaki)
Date: 1847
Key:
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1. Bandô Hikosaburô IV
2. Fujikawa Kayû III
(probably)
3. Bandô Mitsugorô IV
4. Onoe Matsusuke III
5. Ôtani Tomoemon IV
6. Nakamura Gennosuke II
7. Azuma Tôzô V
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1. Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Fuwa Banzaemon
in the play Mukashi katari
inazuma chô
2. Ichikawa Kuzô II as Yoshitsune in the play Yoshitsune
senbon zakura
3. Iwai Kumesaburô III as Osome
in the michiyuki of the play Ukina no hatsudori
4. Nakayama Bungorô II
5. Onoe Kikujirô II
6. Onoe Tamizô II as Iwanaga Saemon in Dannoura kabuto gunki
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For comparison, this is The Italians by Cy Twombly
(born 1928). Mr. Twombly
has been well known in contemporary art circles since the 1960s and has an
entire museum building devoted to his art in Houston, Texas.
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