Actor triptychs

1834, Part II

 

Title on each sheet: Three Flourishing Geniuses of the Present Day (Tôsei Sambukutsui, 當盛三福対)

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as Hanbei (半兵衛, left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ochiyo (お千代, center), and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Kajûrô (加十郎, right)

Play: Chiyo migu sakoi no takagaki (千代見草恋中墻)

Date: 9th month of 1834

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

 

NOTE: These prints may be considered to be a series or arranged as a triptych

Actors: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Utsura Gonbee (うつら権兵衛) and Arashi Kanjûrô I as Teranishi Kanshin (寺西かんしん)

Play: Hana kawado meibutsu otoko (花川戸名物侠客)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Ota-ya Sakichi

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as nyôbo Otoki (女房 おとき, left), Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Banzui Chôbei (ばんずゐ 長兵衛, center), and Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Utsura Gonbee (うつら 権兵衛, right)

Play: Hana kawado meibutsu otoko (花川戸名物侠客)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Jôshu-ya Juzo

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Banzui Chôbei (ばんずゐ 長兵衛)

Play: Hana kawado meibutsu otoko (花川戸名物侠客)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Edo-ya Matsugorô

 

I am grateful to David Kutcher for this image.

Actors: Bandô Kumajûrô II as 浅妻歌之助 (left), Ichikawa Danzô V as Jiraiya (盗賊自来也, center), and Bandô Tamasaburô I as Keisei (さ衣, right)

Play: Koshi no shira namiji raiya banashi (越白浪自来也話)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Edo-ya Matsugorô

Actors Bandô Tamasaburô I as Keisei (さ衣)

Play: Koshi no shira namiji raiya banashi (越白浪自来也話)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei 

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image and information.

Actors: Ichikawa Danzô V as Jiraiya (盗賊自来也)

Play: Koshi no shira namiji raiya banashi (越白浪自来也話)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

 

NOTE: I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for the image on the right, showing a state without the fire.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as

Yoshida no Yado Naonosuke (吉田の宿直之助) and Arashi Kamenojô II as Eirakuya Okumi (永楽やおくみ)

Center sheet: Seki Sanjurô II as Nowake hime yûkon (野分姫ゆうこん)

Right sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII in an unidentified role

Play: Shinobu Sekiya ni Musume Akiudo (荵関娘商人)

Date: 9th month of 1834

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Isaburô

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Komazô V as Dôguya Jinzô, actually Yoshida’s retainer (Yoshida no shimobe) (道具や甚三 実ハ吉田の下部軍助, left), Seki Sanjûrô II as Hokaibo (法界坊, center), and Arashi Kamenojô II as Okumi, daughter (musume) of the Eirakuya (永楽や娘おくみ, right)

Play: Sumidagawa shibai no ennichi (隅田川劇場縁日)

Theater: Ichimura

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Isaburô

 

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Another state of the above triptych

Actors: Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ranmaru (蘭丸, left), Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀, center), and Sawamura Tosshô I as Harunaga (春永, right)

Play: Tokiwa Ima Shusse no Ukesho (時今出世券)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

NOTE: The mon (crests) on the curtain and on Bandô Mitsugorô’s clothing are a combination of the actor’s Mitsudai (triple dai) mon and the five-petal bellflower Tokikikyu mon of the Akechi clan.  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information.

 

 

Bandô Mitsugorô’s Mitsudai (triple dai) mon

 

The Akechi clan’s five-petal bellflower Tokikikyu mon

Actors: Ichikawa Seijûrô as Isaku (一作, left) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Takechi (武智, right)

Play: Tokiwa Ima Shusse no Ukesho (時今出世券)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

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

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智, left) and Sawamura Tosshô I as Harunaga (春永, right)

Play: Tokiwa Ima Shusse no Ukesho (時今出世券)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀, left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ranmaru (蘭丸, center), and Sawamura Tosshô I as Harunaga (春永, right)

Play: Tokiwa Ima Shusse no Ukesho (時今出世券)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834     

Publisher: Akamatsu-ya Shôtarô

 

NOTE: This is an altered version of the warrior triptych (T23) Gyakushin Masakado wa Rokurô Kintsura ga isame no etc. showing Musashi Gorô Sadayo striking Rokurô Kintsura with his fan before the latter’s brother Masakado. 

Actors: Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ranmaru (蘭丸) 

Play: Tokiwa Ima Shusse no Ukesho (時今出世券)

Theater: Morita

Date: 9th month of 1834     

Publisher:

Actors: Iwai Hanshirô VI as Miyagino (left), Sawamura Tosshô I as Matsue Kurando (center) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Mimbunosuke (right)

Play: Hana Tomitsu yuki no Shiraishi (花三津雪端白石)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Iwai Hanshirô VI as Miyagino (宮城野狐)

Center sheet: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Joetsu (宇治常悦)

Right sheet: The image is of Sawamura Tosshô I as Matsuo Kurando, but the text identifies the role as Marikaze Akiyo (まりかぜ秋夜)

Play: Hana Tomitsu yuki no Shiraishi (花三津雪端白石)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Edo-ya Matsugorô

 

I am grateful to and Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information about this triptych.

Actors: Sawamura Tossho I as Matsuo kurando (松江蔵人, left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Miyagino (宮城野, center), and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Joetsu (宇治常悦, right)

Play: Hana Tomitsu yuki no Shiraishi (花三津雪端白石)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for locating this mage.

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as Akiyo (秋夜, left), Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Joetsu (常悦, center), and Iwai Hanshirô VI as Miyagino (宮城野狐, right)

Play: Hana Tomitsu yuki no Shiraishi (花三津雪端白石)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this alternate state of the above triptych without shading on top.

Actors: Iwai Hanshirô VI as Miyagino (みやきの助, left), Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Uji Hyobunosuke (兵部之助, center), and Sawamura Tosshô I as Matsuo kurando (松江蔵人, right)

Play: Hana Tomitsu yuki no Shiraishi (花三津雪端白石)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Juzô

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Shichô Mataroku (仕丁又六)

Play: Hana Tomitsu yuki no Shiraishi (花三津雪端白石)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Arashi Kanjûrô I as Nusa Gohei (奴佐五平, left), Sawamura Tosshô I as Matsue Kurando (松江蔵人, center), and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as possibly as Hige no Ikyu (right)

Play: Hana Tomitsu yuki no Shiraishi (花三津雪瑞白石)

performed at the Morita in 11/1834

Date: 11th month of 1834

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi (久, left and right sheets); Yamada-ya Shôbei (庄, center sheet)

 

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

Actors: Arashi Kamenojô I as the shrine priestess (azusa miko, あづさみこ あらし亀之丞, left), Bandô Mitsugorô IV as the lion dancer Jûni Tôsuke (hitori shishi Jûni Tôsuke, ひとり獅子 十二藤介, center), and Sawamura Tosshô I as the blind sendai-joruri performer (sendai joruri no kare zatô, 仙だひ上るりのうかれ座頭, right)

Play: Kao momiji iro to Yûshide (顔楓色注連)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi  

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information.

Actors: Nakayama Miyoshi as Yaehata Hime (八重はた姫, left), Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Shichô Mataroku (仕丁又六, center), and Sawamura Tosshô I as Nanjirô Kusunoki (楠二郎正儀, right)

Play: Kao momiji iro to Yûshide (顔楓色注連)

Theater: Morita

Date: 11th month of 1834

Publisher: Ota-ya Sakichi

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. 

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