Surimono of actors

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Title: Great Wrestler-actors of the East (Adzuma no o-sekitori yakusha) Description: Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (Ichikawa Ebizô V) (right) and Nakamura Utaemon IV (left) with a sumô umpire's fan. Kunisada designed the portrait of Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (right) and Kuniyoshi designed the portrait of Nakamura Utaemon IV Size: Dai ôban (about 13.75 by 18.25 inches or 34.5 by 45.5 centimeters) Date: 1850 Schaap: 1.b.1
Description: Folding album with paintings of actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as the king of the tengu (right) and Ichikawa Danjûrô IX as Ushiwakamaru (left). The flowering gourd was drawn by Shibata Zeshin. Size: 43 x 51 cm. Date: 1849 Schaap: 1.b.2
Description: Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Soga no Gorô (right), unidentified actor as Maizuru and another actor as Asahina Saburô. Maizuru is tugging on a piece of Soga no Gorô’s armor while Asahina Saburô watches. Size: 43.1 by 56.5 centimeters Date: 1851-1852 Schaap: 1.b.3
Title: Praise given to Ichikawa Sansho (Ichikawa Danjûrô VII) from the Shiba Group and the Uogashi Group Description: A scene from the Boys’ Festival with a large carp streamer partially obscured by a banner of actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII in the role of Shôki Size: 16 x 21 inches (40 by 52.5 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Masa Date: 1849 Schaap: 1.b.4
No image available Description: A large head portrait of an actor in a female role Size: Date: Schaap: 1.c.1
Description: Actor Nakamura Shikan II (Nakamura Utaemon IV) resting on one knee and holding a mortar Size: Shikishiban (about 7 by 8 inches or 18 by 21 centimeters) Date: early 1830s Schaap: 1.c.2
Description: Actors Bandô Mitsugorô IV (right) and Sawamura Tosshô (left) fighting Size: 21.5 by 28.3 centimeters Date: Early 1830s Schaap: 1.c.3 Image courtesy of Richard Illing
	Description: Actor in the role of a seated geisha playing the shamisen Inset: A set of boxes upon a plaited basket on a yoke Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1834 Schaap: 2.b.1.1
	Description: Actor Iwai Hanshirô VI as a seated beauty holding cat against her bosom with peoms by Ryuotei Gijutsu and Ryukwayen Suien Inset: A theater program and ticket Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1834 Schaap: 2.b.1.2
	Description: Actor Iwai Hanshirô V seated by a hibachi with tobacco pipe Inset: buckets filled with fish Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1834 Schaap: 2.b.1.3
Description: Actors Iwai Hanshirô V as the courtesan Nishikido (left) and Segawa Kikunojô V (right) as a female pilgrim fighting off a ruffian. This is a scene from the kabuki play 江戸育娘道成寺 (no translation available) performed in the Nakamura Theater in Edo in the eleventh month of 1827. Size: Shikishiban diptych (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1828 Schaap: 2.c.1 Right sided image courtesy of Richard Illing
Description: Actors Onoe Kikugorô III with a bow (right) and Iwai Hanshirô VI holding monkey mask (left) in roles suggesting Minamoto Yorimasa shooting the nue Size: Shikishiban diptych (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1835 Schaap: 2.c.2
Description: Actors Ichikawa Ebizô V (Ichikawa Danjûrô VII) as a lord (left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as O-Sode, wife of Yomoshichi (center) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Tamiya Iemon (R) in the kabuki play ‘Tokaido yotsuya kaidan’ Size: Shikishiban triptych (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1836 Schaap: 2.c.5
Description: Actor Iwai Hanshirô VI as a miko (shrine maiden) holding an open fan between her teeth (right), an actor as a geisha tuning her shamisen (center) and actor Onoe Kikugorô III standing by a palanquin and tying her obi (left). Only the right and left panels are illustrated. Size: Shikishiban triptych (each sheet is about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: 1836 Schaap: 2.c.7
	Description: Actor Iwai Hanshirô VI as geisha squatting on a veranda Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1835 Schaap: 2.d.1.6
	Description: Actor Iwai Shijaku (Iwai Hanshiro VII) in a female role holding a fan and seated on a mat under a flowering cherry tree Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1830 Schaap: 2.d.1.7 Image courtesy of Richard Illing
	Another state of the above print in which the blue of the sky does not reach the top
	Description: Actor Onoe Kikugorô III reclining in a boat with a pipe in his hand Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap: 2.1
	Description: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII in the role of Arashishi Otokonosuke seated on a stool with a iron war-fan between his teeth in a scene from the kabuki play Meiboku Sendai hagi. There is a white rat in a bat-shaped cartouche in the top right corner, and two poems are inscribed above. Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Printer: Surikô Shinzô Date: 1830 Schaap: 2.2
No image available	Description: Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV performing a dance on a hobbyhorse Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Schaap: 2.3
	Description: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII kneeling in a performance of Shibaraku with his long sword upright to the left Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1832 Schaap: 2.4
	Description: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as a lord holding a raised sword in his left hand and holding on to an opponents lance which he is pressing down to the ground Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Early 1830s Schaap: 2.5
	Another state of the above surimono with a different poem in the left upper corner
	Description: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Benkei battling actor Iwai Shiaku in the role of Yoshitsune Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: Early 1830s Schaap: 2.6
	Description: Two battledores with portraits of actors Sawamura Tosshô I as Soga no Jûrô (right) and Bandô Shûka as his mistress Maizuru (left) Size: Shikishiban (about 8 by 7 inches or 21 by 18 centimeters) Date: c. 1832 Schaap: 2.7
Description: A battledore, a shuttlecock and an envelope of cards for the game of sugoroku. Actors as the Soga brothers are pictured on the envelope. Size: Date: Schaap: Not listed
Description: Bust portraits of two actors Size: Date: Schaap: Not listed
Description: Memorial portrait (shini-e) of actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII Size: Ôban triptych (each panel is about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters) Date: 1854 Schaap: Not listed

“Schaap” refers to listing in Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi by Robert Schaap (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998).

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