Actor triptychs
1832, Part II
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Actors: Onoe Kikugorô Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場) Theater: Kawarasaki Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô |
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Actors: Kataoka Ichizô I as the Kinugawa Tanizô (谷蔵, left) and Sawamura Tosshô I as Ashikaga Yorikane (よりかね, right) Play: Date kurabe Okuni
kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場) Theater: Kawarasaki Date: 3rd month
of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô NOTE: The text on the
signs is an advertisement for cosmetics–specifically Senjoka (仙女 香) white face powder and Migenka (美 玄 香) black hair dye, both
manufactured by the Sakamoto family (坂本氏). I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst
Graebner for this information. |
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Actors: Onoe Eizaburô Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場) Theater: Kawarasaki Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô |
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Actors: Nakamura
Shikan II as Ohatsu (おはつ, left) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as tsubone Iwafuji (岩藤, right) Play: Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: NOTE: This diptych is signed “Ichiyûsai
Kuniyoshi ga” (一勇斎 国芳 画).
It is an altered version of a diptych for the 1831 production of Botan
ni chô hatsu ga fumibako (牡丹蝶初筐). The 1831 diptych has different actorsʼ
names and is signed “Gototei Kunisada ga” (五渡亭 国貞 画):
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Actors: Nakamura
Shikan II as Ohatsu (left) and Bandô
Mitsugorô IV as tsubone Iwafuji (right) Play: Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei |
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Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as tsubone Iwafuji (つぼね岩ふじ) Play: Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this
image. |
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Actors: Nakamura
Shikan II as Ohatsu (おはつ) Play:
Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater:
Nakamura Date:
3rd month of 1832 Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
identifying this image. |
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Actors: Nakamura
Shikan II as Ohatsu (おはつ) Play:
Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater:
Nakamura Date:
3rd month of 1832 Publisher: Shin'ise-ya Kohei NOTE: The website
of Waseda University gives this print a date of
1825, without a month or play title.
However, Publishers of Japanese
Woodblock Prints: A Compendium by Andreas Marks (2011, Hotei Publishing, |
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Actors: Nakamura
Shikan II as Ohatsu (おはつ) Play: Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô NOTE: This print
shows two kurogo
(stagehands in black who are supposed to be invisible). |
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Actors: Nakamura
Shikan II as meshitsukai Ohatsu
(召つかひお初, left) and
Nakamura Karoku I as churo
Onoe (中老おのへ, right) Play: Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Daikoku-ya I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this
image. |
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Actors: Seki Sanjûrô II as 半沢主殿 Play: Sakura doki onna gyoretsu (桜時女行列) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô |
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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Hanakawado no Sukeroku (揚巻ノ助六, left), Iwai Kumesaburô II as the courtesan Agemaki
(けいせい揚巻, center), and
Matsumoto Koshirô V as Hige
no Ikyu (髭ノ意久, right) Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六所縁江戸桜, Sukeroku, Flower of Edo) Theater: Ichimura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Ota-ya Sakichi |
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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Hanakawado no Sukeroku (助六, left) and
Iwai Hanshirô V as Agemaki
(揚まき, right) Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六所縁江戸桜, Sukeroku, Flower of Edo) Theater: Ichimura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô |
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Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Soga Gorô is disguised as a
medicine vendor (うゐろふうりとらや藤吉) Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六所縁江戸桜, Sukeroku, Flower of Edo) Theater: Ichimura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Daikoku-ya |
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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Yoshida no Matsuwaka
(松若, left), Iwai Hanshirô V as the nun Seigen (清玄尼, center), and
Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sarushima
Sota (惣太, right) Play: Sumidagawa hana no gosho zome (隅田川花御所染) Theater: Ichimura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei |
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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Matsuwaka (松若, left), Iwai Hanshirô V
as Seigen (清玄, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô
V as Shinobu no Sôta (しのぶの惣太, right) Play: Sumidagawa hana no gosho zome (隅田川花御所染) Theater:
Ichimura Date:
3rd month of 1832 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V
as Matsuwaka (松若, left), Ichikawa Ebizô V
as Shinobu no Sôta (忍ぶの惣太, center), and Iwai Hanshirô
V as Seigen (清玄, right) Play: Sumidagawa hana no gosho zome (隅田川花御所染) Theater:
Ichimura Date:
3rd month of 1832 Publisher: Daikoku-ya I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sarushima Sota (惣太, left) and Iwai Hanshirô
V as Seigen (清玄, right) Play: Sumidagawa hana no gosho zome (隅田川花御所染) Theater: Ichimura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô II as Ohatsu (おはつ, left) and
Ichikawa Ebizô VI as Iwafuji
(局岩藤, right) Play: Sumidagawa hana no gosho zome (隅田川花御所染) Theater: Ichimura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
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Actors: Iwai Hanshirô V as the nun Seigen (清玄尼,
left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Shinobu no Sôta
(志のぶの惣太, right) Play: Sumidagawa hana no gosho zome (隅田川花御所染) Theater:
Ichimura Date:
3rd month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô NOTE: In the 3rd
month of 1832, the same actor used both the names Ichikawa Danjûrô VII and
Ichikawa Ebizô V.
I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Michel
Ouellet for these images. |
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Actors:
Onoe Eisaburô III as princess Kozakura (小桜姫, left),
Sawamura Sôjûrô I as Tofufuya
Sanfu (とふふや三ふ, center), and
Onoe Kikugorô III as Seigen
(清玄, right) Play: Sumidagawa Tsutsumi koi… (隅田川堤恋圀) Date:
3rd month of 1832 Theater:
Kawasaki Publisher:
Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
this image. |
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Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV (left) and
Nakamura Shikan II (right) both as servants (yakko, 奴) Play: Yayoi no hana
Asakusa matsuri (弥生の花浅草祭) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Shikan II as Shingobei (新吾兵衛) Center sheet: Bandô Mitsugorô
IV in an unidentified role Right sheet: Bandô Mitsugorô
IV as the Empress Jingûkôgô (神功皇后) and Nakamura
Shikan II as the minister Takeuchi-no-Sukune (武内宿祢) Play: Yayoi no hana
Asakusa matsuri (弥生の花浅草祭) Theater: Nakamura Date: 3rd
month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô |
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Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as yakko Mihei (奴三平, left) and
Nakamura Shikan II as yakko Shihei (奴芝平, right) Play: Yayoi no hana Asakusa matsuri (弥生の花浅草祭) Date:
3rd month of 1832 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei NOTE: This diptych
demonstrates the practice of naming yakko (male servants, 奴) in kabuki productions with the first
kanji of the actorʼs given name followed by “heiˮ (平). I am grateful to Marc DeVriese
for this image and to Lucienne Parkan and Horst
Graebner for information about the diptych. |
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Actors: Nakamura
Shikan II as yakko Shihei
(奴芝平, left) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as yakko Mitsuhei (奴三津平, right) Play: Yayoi no hana Asakusa matsuri (弥生の花浅草祭) Date:
3rd month of 1832 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher: Daikoku-ya I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information about
this diptych. |
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Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Empress Jingû (神后皇后, left) and
Nakamura Shikan II as Takeuchi (武内, right) Play:
Yayoi no hana
Asakusa matsuri (弥生の花浅草祭) Theater:
Nakamura Date:
3rd month of 1832 Publisher: Ise-ya Rihei I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
this image. |
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Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Hanafusa Taro (花房太郎, left) and Nakamura Shikan II as Fuki Saburô (冨貴三郎, right) performing the lion dance Play:
Yayoi no hana Asakusa matsuri (弥生の花浅草祭) Theater:
Nakamura Date:
3rd month of 1832 Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô I am grateful to Marc
DeVriese and Lucienne Parkan
for this image. |
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