Miscellaneous series of actor prints
Actor prints are known as yakusha-e. 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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Series: Three
Flourishing Geniuses of the Present Day (Tôsei Sambukutsui, 当世三福対) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Chiyo migu sakoi no takagaki (千代見草恋中墻) Description:
Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ochiyo
(お千代) Date: 9th
month of 1834 Publisher:
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Series: Three
Flourishing Geniuses of the Present Day (Tôsei Sambukutsui, 当世三福対) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Chiyo migu sakoi no takagaki (千代見草恋中墻) Description:
Sawamura Tosshô I as Hanbei (半兵衛) Date: 9th
month of 1834 Publisher:
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Series: Three
Flourishing Geniuses of the Present Day (Tôsei Sambukutsui, 当世三福対) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Description:
Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Kajuro Date: Publisher:
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Series:
Unknown Robinson:
Not listed Play: Description:
Date: 6th
month of 1854 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi |
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A print from the same
series as the above, but by Kunisada (Toyokuni |
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Series:
Fashionable Comparisons of Raised Pictures on Toilet-boxes (Ryûkô kurabe oshie tebako, 流行競押絵手箱) Robinson:
168 Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤) Description:
Actor Bandô Shuka I as
the nun Seigen (Seigen biku, 清玄尼) with a tattered straw hat Date: 1847 Publisher:
Sagin |
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Series:
Fashionable Comparisons of Raised Pictures on Toilet-boxes (Ryûkô kurabe oshie tebako, 流行競押絵手箱) Robinson:
168 Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤) Description:
Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Matsuwaka Maru (松若丸) Date: 1847 Publisher:
Sagin |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
A man spilling water and holding a dipper Inset:
Priest Mungaku under a waterfall Date: c.
1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Another state of the above
print (note the color on the upper portion) |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figures:
A young samurai with a kaishi paper
and a writing brush, his servant is holding a yatate Inset: Date: c.
1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
Inset: Date: c.
1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series: Brother
Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no gakumen) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
Inset: Date: c.
1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
Inset: Date: c.
1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series:
Unread Robinson:
Not listed Play: Description:
Two actors on a jetty beside a fire of burning pine branches Date: c.
1852-1853 Publisher:
Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô |
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Series:
Unread Robinson:
Not listed Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Ashikaga
Yoshimasa (on bridge) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Play: Higashiyama sakura
zoshi Date: c.
1851-1853 Publisher:
Izu-ya Sankichi |
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Series: Unidentified Robinson:
Not listed Actor: Onoe Kikujirô II as Kojorô Play: Tsuki no demura tsuyu no tamaya (月出村白露玉屋) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Tanba-ya Hanjirô |
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Series: Unidentified Robinson:
Not listed Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Demura Shinbei (出村新兵衛) Play: Tsuki no demura tsuyu no tamaya (月出村白露玉屋) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Tanba-ya Hanjirô I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title on each sheet: Examples of Valor (Bûyû chigaragusa, 武勇千柄草) Actors: Play: Shikiutsushi tosa-e no futsutsuka Date: 11th
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Iseyo of Owarichô NOTE:
These prints may be considered to be a series or arranged as a triptych |
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“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi
by Basil William Robinson, 1961,
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