The game of ken,

Part II

 

 

 

Title: Three Countries’ Ken (Sangoku ken)

Description: Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV, Ichimura Uzaemon XII and Seki Sanjûrô III playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Linhart: 37/10036

 

Title: Three Countries’ Ken (Sangoku ken)

Description: Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV, Ichimura Uzaemon XII and Seki Sanjûrô III playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Linhart: 38/10037

 

Title: Three Countries’ Ken (Sangoku ken)

Description: Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV (standing left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII (sitting) and Seki Sanjûrô III (right) playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô

Linhart: 39/10039

 

Title: Three Countries’ Ken (Sangoku ken)

Description: Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV, Ichimura Uzaemon XII and Seki Sanjûrô III playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: No seal

Linhart: 40/10038

 

Title: Shogei shiansho nite mari no keiko o suru

Description: Three actors playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher: Okaei

Linhart: 41/10040

Title: Yôji gakure no zu

Play: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (新規一拳酉魁声)

Description: Bandô Shuka I as 大磯中の町お秀, Nakamura Utaemon IV as 浅草の郷者三国軒, and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as 鳶頭嘉吉 playing ken

Date: 1st month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Izutsu-ya Shôkichi

Linhart: /10043

 

Title: Three Countries’ Ken (Sangoku ken)

Description: Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV, Ichimura Uzaemon XII and Seki Sanjûrô III playing ken

Date: 2nd month of 1849

Publisher: Takano-ya Tomoemon

Linhart: 42/10044

 

NOTE: This print is unsigned

 

Title: How to practice the sangoku-ken (Sangoku ken o sono mama ni hitori keiko)

Description: Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV playing the shamisen

Date: 1st month of 1849

Publisher:

Linhart: 44/10049

 

Title: Ken of the Three Spinning Tops of Takezawa Baishô and Tôji (Takezawa Baishô Tôji sankyoku ken)

Description: Spinning tops playing ken

Date: 1849

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

Linhart: 45/10148

 

Title: Ryûkôken

Description:

Date: 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Linhart: 46/10031

 

Title: Ryûkôken

Description:

Date: 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Linhart: 47/10032

 

Title: Popular grandfather, grandmother and older sister-ken (Jiisan basan anesan ryûkô ken)

Description: The three gods Okina Inari (right), Datsueba (left) and O-Take-san (back) playing ken

Date: 4th month of 1849

Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô

Linhart: 48/10022

 

Title: Popular grandfather, grandmother and older sister-ken (Jiisan basan anesan ryûkô ken)

Description: The three gods Okina Inari (right), Datsueba (left) and O-Take-san (back) playing ken

Date: 4th month of 1849

Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô

Linhart: 49/10023

 

Title: None

Description: Three gods dancing

Date: 4th month of 1849

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Linhart: 50/10029

 

Title: Grandma and a Foreigner (Jiisan basan ketôjin)

Description:

Date: 4th month of 1849

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Linhart: 51/10143

 

Title: Fox-ken of Osaka (Ôsaka kitsune-ken)

Description: Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV and Onoe Tamizô II playing ken

Play:

Date: 10th month of 1849

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Linhart: 52/10117

 

Title: Ken of the Three Buddhas (Sanbutsu ken)

Description: A memorial print (shini-e) for actors Onoe Matsunosuke (standing left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII (sitting) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VI (right)

Date: 10th month of 1851

Publisher: No seal

Linhart: 53/10057

 

Title: Ken of the Three Buddhas (Sanbutsu ken)

Description: A memorial print (shini-e) for actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (standing left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII (sitting) and Nakamura Utaemon IV (right)

Date: 1854

Publisher: No seal

Linhart: 54/10058

 

Title:

Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV, and Bandô Takesaburô I playing ken

Play: Yoshiwara-ken

Date: 2nd month of 1852

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Linhart: 55/10115

 

Title:

Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV, and Bandô Takesaburô I playing ken

Play: Yoshiwara-ken

Date: 1852

Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke

Linhart: 56/10149

 

Title: Yoshiwara-ken

Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV, and Bandô Takesaburô I playing ken

Play: Yoshiwara-ken

Date: 1852

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

Linhart: 57/10150

 

Title: Kuruwa-ken

Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV, and Bandô Takesaburô I playing ken

Play: Yoshiwara-ken

Date: 1852

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

Linhart: 58/10151

 

Title: Untitled

Description: Actors Arashi Yoshisaburô III, Nakamura Fukusuke I, and Sawamura Gennosuke III playing ken 

Play: The Treasure Ship Entering the Beautiful Harbor (Irominato takara iribune)

Date: 2nd month of 1853

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

Linhart: 60/10153

 

Title: None

Description: Actors Arashi Yoshisaburô III, Nakamura Fukusuke I, and Sawamura Gennosuke III playing ken 

Play: The Treasure Ship Entering the Beautiful Harbor (Irominato takara iribune)

Date: 2nd month of 1853

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Linhart: 61/10154

 

Title: Moto-uta kae-uta

Description: Actors Arashi Yoshisaburô III, Nakamura Fukusuke I, and Sawamura Gennosuke III playing ken 

Play: The Treasure Ship Entering the Beautiful Harbor (Irominato takara iribune)

Date: 2nd month of 1853

Publisher: Shinagawa-ya Kyûsuke

Linhart: 62/10025

 

Title: Asakusa-ken

Description: Actors Arashi Yoshisaburô III, Nakamura Fukusuke I, and Sawamura Gennosuke III playing ken 

Play: The Treasure Ship Entering the Beautiful Harbor (Irominato takara iribune)

Date: 2nd month of 1853

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

Linhart: 63/10030

 

Title: Parody of Six Immortal Poets

Description: Three actors playing ken

Date: c. 1847 - 1852

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Linhart: Not listed

Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock)

Description: Bandô Shûka I as Oiso of Naka-no-cho (female), Nakamura Utaemon IV as 浅草の郷者三国軒, and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tobigashira Kakichi (鳶頭嘉吉)

Date: 1st month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô

Linhart: Not listed

“Linhart” refers to listing in the article ‘Kuniyoshi’s Ken Caricatures between 1847 and 1853’, by Sepp Linhart in Andon, Vol. 83, 2008, pp. 5-29

 

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