Actor triptychs

1831

Actors: Left sheet: Segawa Kikunojô V as Gorokichiʼs wife (nyôbô) Oshina (五郎吉女房おしな) Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Asahina Tôbei (朝比奈藤兵衛) Right sheet: Ichikawa Sumizô III as Chiyo Kanjûrô (千代勘十郎) and Sawamura Gennosuke II as Hayashida Heisuke (林田兵作) Play: Kawazu gake Soga no honsetsu Date: 1^st month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
Actors: Segawa Kikunojô V as the geisha Izayoi (十六夜, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Dansaburô (屋根小僧なわぬけの長吉実ハ団三郎, right) Play: Kawazu gake Soga no honsetsu Date: 1^st month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Matsumura Tatsuemon
Actors: Segawa Kikunojô as Ohatsu (おはつ, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô as tsubone Iwafuji (岩藤, right) Play: Botan ni chô hatsu ga fumibako (牡丹蝶初筐) Date: 3^rd month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô NOTE: This diptych is signed “Gototei Kunisada ga” (五渡亭 国貞 画). It was reissued with different actorsʼ names and other alterations for the 1832 production of Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列). The latter is signed “Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga” (一勇斎 国芳 画). I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (left) and Segawa Kikunojô V (right) Play: Botan nicho hatsuga fumibako (牡丹蝶初筺) Date: 3^rd month of 1831 Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych.
Actors: Mimasu Gennosuke I as Kyûji (久次, left) and Nakamura Shikan II as Ichikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門, right) Play: Kumoi no hana masago no Shiranami (桜真砂白浪) Date: 3^rd month of 1831 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this image.
Actors: Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Kazuemon holding his child Play: Natsu yukata iroha komon (夏浴衣国字小紋) Date: 6^th month of 1831 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô
Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Gantetsubô (願鉄坊, left), Segawa Kikunojô V as Dote no Oroku (土手のお六, center), and Sawamura Gennosuke II as Denbei (伝兵衛, right) Play: Iro misao kuruwa bunsho (色操廓文章) Date: 7^th month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô NOTE: On the left-hand sheet, the “yoshi” character in “Kuniyoshi” is written in hiragana as よし instead of the usual 芳.
Two sheets from another state of the above design. I am grateful to Guy Pepermans for locating these images.
Actors: Sawamura Gennosuke II as Denbei Play: Iro misao kuruwa bunsho (色操廓文章) Date: 7^th month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Actor: Sawamura Gennosuke II as Denbei Play: Iro misao kuruwa bunsho (色操廓文章) Date: 7^th month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Unknown, seal reads Hon, Otsuki (本, 尾付) NOTE: This print is part of the series People of Edo, a Collection of Merchants) (Edoko zoroi shônin zukushi, 江戸子揃商人尽)
Actors: Sawamura Gennosuke II as Jirôzaemon (次郎左衛門, left) and Segawa Kikunojô V as the courtesan Yatsuhashi (八つはし, right) Play: Iro misao kuruwa bunsho (色操廓文章) Date: 7^th month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô
Actors: Ichikawa Komazô V as Tanimura Kotôji (谷付小藤次) Play: Ômi Genji senjin yakata (The Castle Vanguard of Ômi Genji, 近江源氏先陣館) Date: 7^th month of 1831 Theater: Kado no Shibai (in Osaka) Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi I am grteful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image.
Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikugorô III as Satô Yomoshichi (与茂七) Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô II as Tamiya Iemon (伊右衛門) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Oiwa’s ghost Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (東海道四谷怪談) Date: 8^th month of 1831 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô
Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikugorô III as Igami no Gonda (いがみの権太) Right sheet: Osagawa Tsuneyo as 権太郎女房小せん and Onoe Matsusuke III as shume no Kokingo Takesato (小金吾) Play: Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (義経千本桜) Date: 8^th month of 1831 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô
Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Igami no Gonda (いがみの権太) Play: Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (義経千本桜) Date: 8^th month of 1831 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô I am grateful to Frederik Balhuizen and Josta Klaassen for this image.
	Actors: Osagawa Tsuneyo IV as Shizuka Gozen and Seki Sanjûrô II as Fox Tadanobu Play: Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (義経千本桜) Date: 8^th month of 1831 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: NOTE: This is a kakemono-e (a vertical diptych approximately 28 by 10 inches or 72 by 25 centimeters), the bottom of which is missing. In the signature, the “Yoshi” character is written in hiragana as よし instead of the usual 芳. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for the image and to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych.
Actors: Nakamura Karoku I as the wife (nyôbô) Omatsu (女房おまつ) and the child actor Mimasu Daizaburô (三枡大三郎) as Kazuko Sakon (左近一子) Play: Shinoda nomori uwasa no yomeiri (信田盛鳴響嫁入) Date: 9^th month of 1831 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Daikoku-ya NOTE: The title of this play may be written as 信田盛噂響嫁入, 信田森鳴響嫁入, or as 信田盛鳴響嫁入. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information about this print.
Actors: Left sheet: Segawa Kikunojô V as Umeomaru (梅王丸) and Sawamura Gennosuke II as Sakuramaru (桜丸) Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Matsuomaru (松王丸) Play: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) Date: 9^th month of 1831 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
Actors: Bandô Minosuke II as Yajûrô (弥十郎, left) and Onoe Kikugorô III possibly as Nagoya Sanza (right) Play: Edo-gonomi kiku no datezome (江戸好菊伊達染) Date: 11^th month of 1831 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Possibly Shimizu NOTE: The fight over the Masakado banner is a scene in several kabuki plays, and the identification of this play is tentative. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych.
Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I (left), Segawa Kikunojô V as Ohama (center), and Bandô Mitsugorô III (right) Play: Matsu Ochikara tomoe no Fujinami (松資巴藤浪) Date: 11^th month of 1831 Theater: Kawasaki Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.
Actors: Nakamura Shikan II as Sadamitsu (貞充, left), Segawa Kikunojô V as Princess Takiyasha (滝夜叉, center) and Seki Sanjûrô II as Genji Tsuna (源次綱, right) Play: Sôma yakata sechie no kaoyose (相馬館節会大寄) Date: 11^th month of 1831 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these two sheets from another state without the actors’ roles.

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