Miscellaneous horizontal actor prints,
Part I
This section lists horizontal prints (yoko-e) of actors. Unless otherwise noted, each sheet is approximately 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban. Two of Kuniyoshi’s series of horizontal actor prints are available elsewhere on this website: Vengeance at Denka Tea House and the 1835 Kanadehon Chûshingura. Kuniyoshi’s series “Kanadehon Chûshingura” from 1854-55 is available on another website.
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Actors: Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Actors:
Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Kanadehon Chushingura Date: 7th
month of 1849 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Actors:
Seki Sanjurô Play: Kagamiyama Date: 4th
month of 1849 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Kobayashi Taijirô |
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Print title:
History of Kanegafuchi (Kanegafuchi no
Yurai, 鐘ヶ淵の由来) Actors:
Fujikawa Kayu as O-Kumi of Eiraku-ya, Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yoshida
Gunsuke, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Hôkaibô struggling with Nakayama Bungorô
as the clerk Chokurô Play: Kaidan Sumidagawa (怪談隅田川) Date: 6th
month of 1848 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Ningyo-ya Takichi |
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Actors:
Onoe Baikô IV in a female role as Okaru (left) imploring Sawamura Chojurô V
as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (right) with a man crouched in hiding behind them Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 1849 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Print title:
Yohei etsuchi-kago no zu (与兵衛辻駕の圖) Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Nanyohei (left), Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan
Miyake of Fuji-ya emerging from a palanquin (center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII
as Nanpo Jûjibei (right) Play: Tsuma Mukaeiro no fumizuki (妻迎艶文月) Date: 6th
month of 1848 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Ningyo-ya Takichi |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Kuzo II as Kisuke (left), Onoe Baikô IV in a female role as Okon (centre)
holding a scroll and being threatened by Sawamura Chojurô V as Fukuoka
Mitsugi (right) Play: Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba Date: 5th
month of 1849 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Actors: Onoe
Kikujirô II as the attendant of the geisha Sangoku (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Tamaya Shinbei, Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Demura Shinbei, and Ichikawa
Kodanji IV as the cormorant fisherman Ukai Kujurô Play: Tsuki no demura tsuyu no tamaya (月出村白露玉屋) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater:
Kawarazaki Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Actors:
Sawamura Chojurô V as the farmer Hayano Kanpei kneeling and loading his gun
(left) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Ono Sadakurô holding up a stolen purse (right) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura, Act V Date: 1849 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Another state of the above
print, probably for a different production of Kanadehon Chûshingura |
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Actors:
Bandô Mitsugorô IV, Onoe Eizaburô Play: Bandô musha tsunagate Hajime (坂東武者綱手始) Date: 11th
month of 1832 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher: |
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Actors:
Nakamura Utaemon IV as 裏梅梢, Bandô Shuka I as 勝見の小秀, and Seki Sanjûrô Play: O megumi niuruo Iwafuji (恵閏初夏藤) Date: 4th
month of 1849 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Tama-ya Sôsuke |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashibo Benkei, Bandô Takesaburô I as Minamoto no
Yoshitsune, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togashi no Saemon Play: Kanjincho Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater:
Kawarazaki Publisher:
Izutsu-ya Shôkichi |
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Print title:
53 Stations (Gojûsan eki), Station
51 (Minakuchi) Actors:
Unidentified actor (left), Onoe Kikugorô Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô Date: 7th
month of 1847 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Ezaki-ya Kichibei |
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Print title:
53 Stations (Gojûsan eki), Okazaki Actors:
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Inaba no suke (left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as
Tamashima Itto (right) witness the transformation of witch (Onoe Kikugorô Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô Date: 7th
month of 1847 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Ezaki-ya Kichibei |
