Actor triptychs

1849, Part VII

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Torazô (虎蔵実ハ牛若丸)

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Chienai (知恵内実ハ喜三太)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki (鬼一法眼三略巻, Kiichi Hogen’s Book of Strategy)

Date: 9^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke (玉惣)

NOTE: Some sources date this production to the 8^th month of 1849

Actors: Seki Sanjûrô III as Chienai (left), Bandô Shuka I as Torazô (also known as Ushiwakamaru, center) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kiichi Hôgen (right)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki (鬼一法眼三略巻, Kiichi Hogen’s Book of Strategy)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for this image

Diptych title: The five festivals, autumn-leaf viewing (五節句乃うち 紅葉狩)

Actors: Seki Sanjûrô III (left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV (right)

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Diptych title: The five festivals (五節句のうち, Go sekku no uchi), irises and dolls (あやめ人形, Ayame ningyô)

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Takeshiuchi Sukunene (武内宿祢, left) and Bandô Shûka I as Empress Jingû (神功皇后, right)

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Diptych title: The five festivals (五節句のうち, Go sekku no uchi)...

Actors: Left sheet:

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ura Umeta Otto (うら梅太夫)

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Diptych title: The five festivals (五節句のうち 弥よひ)

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as the waitress Okaji and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Chôko

Right sheet: No information

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Konkuhawi (こんくハゐ)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as the waitress Okaji (仲居 おかぢ) and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Chôko (釣狐)

Text: 五節句のうち こんくハゐ　

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Robert Pryor this alternate state with changes to Konkuhawi’s back and Choko’s hakama (traditional loose trousers, 袴).

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Konkuwai (こんくわい)

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as the waitress Okaji (仲居 おかぢ, left) and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Chôko (釣狐, right)

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

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Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Takeshiuchi Sukunene and Bandô Shûka I as the waitress Okaji (inset)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Empress Jingû (神功皇后)

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi

Actors: Left sheet: 猿田彦 and 茶屋女 (in clouds)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzo II as Shitei (仕丁) and 飛脚 (in clouds)

Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香)

Date: 9^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as wife Oseki (女房お関, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Gotobei (五斗兵衛, right)

Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoe-jô (義経腰越状, Yoshitsune’s Letter from Koshigoe)

Date: 9^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Motome (もとめ, left), Iwai Kumesaburô III as Sugi (daughter of the sake seller Omiwa, おみは, center), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as detchi Netarô (the shop apprentice Netarô, でつち 子太郎, right)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue), Act 4, Scene 1

Date: 11^th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Motome (求女) and Bandô Mitsuzô I as Ume no tsubone (梅 の 局)

Center sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Omiwa (おみわ), Ichikawa Hirogorô I as Matsu no tsubone (松 の 局), and Sawamura Kijûrô II as Momiji tsubone (紅葉 局)

Right sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Kanawa Gorô Imakuni (金輪五郎今国) and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Sakuro no tsubone (さくら の 局)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 11^th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Omiwa (おみわ, left), Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Motome (求女, center), and an unidentified actor as Princess Tachibana (right)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 11^th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi

I am grateful to Willie Howard for this image.

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Koshitsu Sadaka (後室さだか, left) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Daihanji (大判司, right)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 11^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Sheets from less labor-intensive states of the above design

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Genpei II as the kamuro Tayori (かむろたより) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Higashino Yoshiro (東与四郎)

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Naniwa Jirôsaku (浪花次郎作)

Play: Modorikago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩, A Returning Palanquin)

Date: 11^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

NOTE: “kamuro” (禿 or かむろ) is sometimes politely defined as a courtesan’s child-servant, but apprentice is a more accurate translation. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Two sheets from another state, or possibly two different states, of the preceding diptych. Note that the sheet on the left does not have Kuniyoshi’s kiri seal.

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Higashino no Yoshiro (東の与四郎, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the palanquin carrier Naniwa no Jirôsaku (right)

Play: Modorikago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩, A Returning Palanquin)

Date: 11^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Watanabe Katsu (渡辺且, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Eiyû Nihon Suikoden (遠藤武者盛遠, holding severed head on the right)

Play: Muro no ume mibae Genji (室楳学源氏)

Date: 11^th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych.

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