Actors

Actor prints are known as yakusha-e.  A vast amount of information about kabuki may be found at Kabuki 21.  Also, see the section Comic and Miscellaneous Prints for caricatures of actors.

Series

Date

Robinson*

Selected Actors as the Eight Heroes of Bakin’s Hakkenden (Mitate yakusha Hakkenshi)

1840

156

Index of Favorite Actors Showing Off (Yakusha kidori hi-iki-biiki)

Image added 7/24/10

c. 1840

175

Untitled series of actors’ busts

1840

unlisted

5 Warriors Likened to 5 Famous Horses of Great Men (五将軍見立五人男馬超)

1843

unlisted

‘The Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan’ is available on another website

c. 1845

37

Selected “Brother-pictures” of 30 Chosen Trees and Flowers (E-kyôdai mitate san-jû bok’kwa-sen)

1845

155

Fabrics Dyed to Order (Gochûmon oatsurae some)

1846

unlisted

Kanadehon Chûshingura

1847

169

Select Series of Book Titles (Mitate gedai zukushi)

1847-1848

159

The Loyal Heroes of Bakin’s “Hakkenden” (Giyû Hakkenden)

1847-1848

162

Personal Encounters for the Eight Views (Au-mi hakkei)

1848

178

The Five Festivals (Go sekku no uchi)

1849

125

Untitled series of Chûshingura diptychs

1849

unlisted

Comparison of the Spirits of Able Men (Date otoko kishô kurabe)

1850

172

Modern Seven Komachi (Imayô nana Komachi)

1851

161

Fashionable Sake Cups (Hayarikou sagazuki)

1851

unlisted

Chûshingura

1847-1852

unlisted

Modern Style Set of the Provinces in Edo Brocade (Kôto nishiki imayô kuni-dzukushi)

1852

171

The Eight Heroes of Bakin's “Hakkenden” (Satomi Hakkenden) Images added 7/6/10

1852

173

Set of Views of Fuji from Edo in Iroha Order (Nanatsu iroha Tôto Fuji zukushi)

1852

181

Thirty-six Fashionable Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto ryûkô san-jû-rokkwaiseki)

1852

187

Selection for the Twelve Signs (Mitate jûnishi no uchi)

1852

192

Famous Views of Edo Selected for the Twelve Months (Edo meisho mitate jû-ni ka gwatsu no uchi)

1852

210

Twelve Acts of the Lantern Chûshingura (Ju-ni dan shoku Kanadehon Chûshingura)

1852

218

The Seven Gods of Good Luck on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa shichi Fuku-jin no uchi)

1853

203

Fifty-three Stations on Shank’s Mare (Hizakurige go-jû-san eki)

1854

204

The Story of the Soga Brothers (Soga monogatari no uchi)

1854

205

Vengeance at Denka Tea House (Denka chaya adauchi)

1854

unlisted

Twenty-four Selected Paragons of Filial Piety (Mitate nijûshi-kô)

1854-1855

170

Miscellaneous series of actor prints “Selected Fine Performances of Actors for the Eight Views” added 7/29/10

 

167 and 168

Harimaze

 

200 and 216

Double and triple bust portraits of actors

 

 

Prints depicting the game of ken

 

 

Fan prints of actors

 

 

Surimono of actors

 

 

Memorial prints (shini-e)

 

 

Miscellaneous bust portraits of actors

 

 

Miscellaneous Chûshingura prints

 

206

Polyptychs of four or more sheets

 

 

Miscellaneous horizontal actor prints Group added 7/31/10

 

 

Actor triptychs and diptychs

 

159

*Series number in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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