Miscellaneous bust portraits of actors

Part II

 

Nakamura Utaemon IV as Daruma in 'Takagi Oriemon budojitsu roku',

 

Print title: Portrait of Daruma on a Hanging Scroll (Ni Daruma no ichijiku, 似達磨の一軸)

Actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV

Play: Takagi Oriemon budôitsu roku

Date: 8th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

 

NOTE: Although this print might pass as a Buddhist image of Daruma, the title, Ni Daruma no ichijiku, refers to the tale that was adopted for the kabuki play Takagi Oriemon budôitsu roku, in which actor Nakamura Utaemon IV starred.

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state without the red cartouche.

 

Actor: Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵)

Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, Disfigured Kasane)

Date: 3rd month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

Kuniyoshi - unidentified publisher, 1847-52[1]

 

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 2nd month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Unidentified

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this alternate state of the above design.

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Actor: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as the blind female minstrel Zatô Takenoichi (座頭竹の市)

Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語)

Date: 8th month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Kuniyoshi - (fish) Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Kandagawa Yokichi in 'Tenjiku Tokubei karakoto banashi', (6)1849, 101-3623

 

Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yokichi of the Kanda River (神田川の与吉)

Play: Tenjiku Tokubei karakoto banashi (天竺徳兵衛韓噺)

Date: 6th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

 

 

Another state of the above design

a shini-e of Nakamura Utaemon IV, and the two censors seals support a date of 1852  Actor+print[1]

 

Actor: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Karukaya Dôshin (苅萱桑門)

Play: Zôha Tsukushi no iezuto (増補筑紫礎)

Date: 7th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kiuzô

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Actor: Sawamura Sôjûrô as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura

Date: 7th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

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Actor: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)

Date: 9th month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher:

 

Kuniyoshi - busts of actors in front of Archery targets, Agemaki no Sukeroku

 

Series: Untitled series of busts of actors in front of archery targets

Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Agemaki no Sukeroku (揚巻の助六)

Play: Sukeroku kuruwa no hanamidoki (助六廓の花見時) 

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

 

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Series: Untitled series of busts of actors in front of archery targets

Actor: Bandô Shuka I as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)

Play: Sukeroku kuruwa no hanamidoki (助六廓の花見時) 

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

 

Kuniyoshi - busts of actors in front of Archery targets, actor in the role of Nichiren, depicted in bust in front of a huge Archery target

 

Series: Untitled series of busts of actors in front of archery targets

Actor: Ichikawa Ebizô V as the monk Kumagai Rensei (熊ヶ谷蓮生坊)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 3rd month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this print.

 

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Text: A distant view of act VIII (八段目遠見)

Series:

Actor:

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 1847-1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater:

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Asakura Togo (浅倉当吾亡霊, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi Tairyo Masatomo (織越大領政知, right)

Play: Higashiyama sakura zôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe)

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Tsunejirô

 

NOTE: The ghost is seeking revenge on the cruel samurai lord who had him crucified for protesting unfair taxes. 

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Matsuômaru (梅王丸) and Nakayama Bungorô II as Kanabô (かなぼう)

Play: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)

Date: 10th month of 1850

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Danshichi’s wife O-kaji (団七おかぢ, left) and Seki Sanjuro III as the hag, wife of Giheiji of Mikawa-cho (平次お婆ア, right)

Play: Shinzô tsurifune kidan (新造艣奇談)

Date: 5th month of 1852

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sôgane (phonetic reading of 相金)

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Kuzunoha kitsune (葛乃葉狐) writing a farewell poem on a shôji (sliding panel) holding a child (right) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Abe no Yasuna (阿部保名, left)

Play: Ashiya dauman ochi kagami

Date: 5th month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

 

Actors: Ichikawa Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (本蝶 綱五郎, left) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kambara Sashichi (神原 狭七, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the magician Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII also as Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助, right)

Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, Disfigured Kasane)

Date: 3rd month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

 

NOTE: There may be a third sheet showing the giant rat into which Nikki Danjô transforms himself

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Shiraito of the House of Hashimoto-ya (left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水, right)

Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋)

Date: 3rd month of 1852 (with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

 

NOTE: Kuniyoshi used Western style perspective for the back ground architecture

Princess Wakana (L) by Bando Shuka I, Genkai Nadaemon by Arashi Rikan III; Washizu Rokuro by Arashi Rikaku II; Wachizu Shichoro by Bando Takesaburo I in Shiranui monogatari (The Tale of the White Embroiderer) (2)1853

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: 2nd month of 1853

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô

Actors: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実, right) killing Onoe Kikujirô II as Atsumori (left)

Play: Suma no Miyako Genpei Tsutsuji

Date: 5th month of 1852

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Actors: Nakamura Fukusuke I as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実, left) and Ichikawa Kozô as Genkurô Yoshitsune (源九郎義経, right)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (Battle of Ichinotani)

Date: 5th month of 1854

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (right) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (left) hanging votive cloths at a temple

Date: 1849-1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state.

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: 2nd month of 1853

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi

 

NOTE: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII played nine different roles in this production.  Two different states of the left-hand sheet are shown.

 

“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). 

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