Miscellaneous bust portraits of actors

Part II

	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: 8^th 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: 3^rd month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô
	Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 2^nd 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.
	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: 8^th month of 1848 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	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: 6^th month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei
	Another state of the above design
	Actor: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Karukaya Dôshin (苅萱桑門) Play: Zôha Tsukushi no iezuto (増補筑紫礎) Date: 7^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kiuzô
	Actor: Sawamura Sôjûrô as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 7^th month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
	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: 9^th month of 1850 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
	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: 3^rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	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: 3^rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	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: 3^rd month of 1850 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this print.
	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: 8^th 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: 10^th 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: 5^th 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: 5^th 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: 8^th 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: 3^rd 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: 3^rd month of 1852 (with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei NOTE: Kuniyoshi used Western style perspective for the back ground architecture
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: 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: 5^th 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: 5^th 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: 2^nd 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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