Double and triple bust portraits of actors,
Part I
Included in this section are diptychs and triptychs in which at least one sheet is a double or triple bust portrait. It is possible that some of the illustrated single sheets are from larger compositions. Unless otherwise noted, these prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for assisting with this section.
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hanaoka Bunshichi (花岡文七, male role) and Bandô Shuka I as Kiyokawa (こし元清川) Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga Date: 1st
month of 1850 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
NOTE: This
print and the four following prints belong to the series Flowers of Edo: Five
Otokodate
(Edo no hana
no gonin otoko, 江戸の花五人男) which is not listed in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum,
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kaminari
Shôkurô (雷庄九郎) and Bandô Shuka I in an unidentified female role Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga Date: 1st
month of 1850 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Isetsuru |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hotei
Ichiemon (ほてい丸の市右衛門) Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga Date: 1st
month of 1850 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Isetsuru |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Gokuin
Senemon (極印仙右衛門) Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga Date: 1st
month of 1850 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Isetsuru |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Otonai
(安の平兵衛, top) and Ichikawa Kodanji
IV as Akazawa Junai (沢十内) Play: Mimasu mimasu karigane Soga Date: 1st
month of 1850 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
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Actors: Bandô Shuka I as the Buddhist
nun Narukami (女鳴神尼) and Arashi Kangorô I in an unidentified role Play: Kumo no uwasa onna Narukami (雲艶女鳴神) Date: 6th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Actors:
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Takagi Oriaemon
and Onoe Kikujirô II as Umenoi Play: Takagi Oriemon budojitsu roku (高木織右武実録) Date: 8th
month of 1848 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Horimasa |
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Actors: Play: Takigi o yukima no Date: 11th
month of 1848 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Horimasa I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image. |
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Actors: Ichilawa Danjûrô VIII as Heigawara Jirozô (top) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Akogi no Heiji Play: Seishu Akogi gaura Date: 10th
month of 1849 Publisher:
Mikawa-ya Tetsugorô |
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Actors: Play: Date:
1846-1852 Publisher:
Horimasa |
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Actors: Ichilawa Danjûrô VIII as Mitsuuji (光氏, suggesting Prince Genji)
being handed a letter by Nakamura Kantarô I as Kawajirô (川次郎) Play: Genji Moyô furisada hinagata (源氏模様娘雛形) Date: 9th
month of 1851 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Actors: Play: The Yadoya scene
from Eiri Shôsetsu Asagao Monogatari Date: 8th
month of 1848 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Actors: Play: Shinpan koshi no
shiranami (新板越白浪) Date: 9th
month of 1851 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Another state of the above
print |
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A later edition, probably
for another production, with the actorsʼ names added in white
cartouches. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image. |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai
Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実) fighting with Ichikawa Saruzô
I as mukan taifu Atsumori (無官の太夫敦盛) Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記) Date: 3rd
month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Kawarazak Publisher:
Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yoshikado
and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kikyo-no-mae Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門) Date: 11th
month of 1848 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Horimasa |
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Actors:
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Otaka
Tonomo (大高主殿)
and Seki Sanjûrô Play: Takagi Oriemon budojitsu roku (高木織右武実録) Date: 8th
month of 1848 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher: 与 under a single mountain is identified as Hori Takichi of Yushima in Kuniyoshi by B. W. Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961), but as Ôta-ya Takichi in Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium by Andreas Marks (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 2011) I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image. |
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Actors:
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Otaka
Tonomo (大高主殿)
biting on a silk cloth as he performs ritual seppuku and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Ryôshi Ganzô (猟師鴈蔵) Play: Takagi Oriemon budojitsu roku (高木織右武実録) Date: 8th
month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Horimasa |
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Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (top) and
Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Kanedon Chûshingura Date: 7th
month of 1849 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Mitsuuji
(光氏,
suggesting Prince Genji) and Bandô
Shuka I as Tasogare (たそがれ) Play: Genji Moyô furisada hinagata (源氏模様娘雛形) Date: 9th
month of 1851 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Kadomaru-ya |
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Another state of the above
design with the actorsʼ names written in a different script. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese
for this image. |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Miyagi Asojirô
(male role) and Bandô Shûka
I as Miyuki, the blind koto
player Play: The Akashi no Ura Funawakare scene from Eiri Shôsetsu Asagao Monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語) Date: 8th
month of 1848 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô |
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Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Danshichi Okaji (団七お梶)
and Seki Sanjûrô Play: Shinzô tsurifune kidan (新造艣奇談) Date: 5th
month of 1852 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Isekane NOTE:
There is a festival parade in the background |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Hige
no Ikyu (髭の意休, top), Bandô Shuka I as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦や揚巻, middle), and Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Hanakawado Sukeroku
(花川戸の助六, bottom) Play: Sukeroku kuruwa no hanamidoki (助六廓の花見時) Date: 3rd
month of 1850 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image. |
