Actor triptychs

1836, Part I

Actors: Iwai Hanshirô IV as Princess Kinshojô (left) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Gojogun Kanki (right)

Play: Mada na Tegiwa Tsugiho no Hachiue (拙手際接穂鉢植)

Date: 1^st month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to and Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as Hosokawa Katsumoto (細川勝元)

Play: Kuruwa kuruwa date no ôyose (曲輪来伊達大寄, Coming! Coming to the Pleasure Quarter: Great Gathering of the Date Clan)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô as Okinoi (sitting) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Ashikaga Yorikane (standing)

Center sheet: Onoe Kikugorô III as Tenjiku Kaja

Right sheet: Sawamura Tosshô I as Fuwa Banzaemon

Play: Kuruwa kuruwa date no ôyose (曲輪来伊達大寄, Coming! Coming to the Pleasure Quarter: Great Gathering of the Date Clan)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Nikki actually Tenjiku Kaja Masanori (仁木実ハ天竺冠者直則, left), Mimasu Gennosuke I as Ikazuchi Tsurunosuke (雷鶴之助, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Shiozawa Tanzaburô (塩沢丹三郎, right)

Play: Kuruwa kuruwa date no ôyose (曲輪来伊達大寄, Coming! Coming to the Pleasure Quarter: Great Gathering of the Date Clan)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this altered state of the triptych without the giant rat and with the small rats uncolored.

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Tosshô I as Yoemon (与右衛門)

Center sheet: Onoe Eizaburô as the geisha Okiku (げいし おきく)

Right sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Shiozawa Tanzaburô (塩沢 丹三郎) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Suke of Hanyû Village (羽生村助)

Play: Kuruwa kuruwa date no ôyose (曲輪来伊達大寄, Coming! Coming to the Pleasure Quarter: Great Gathering of the Date Clan)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

NOTE: This triptych was designed before Mimasu Gennosuke I replaced Sawamura Tosshô I in the role of Yoemon.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Hannyumura no Suke (left) and Sawamura Tosshô I as Yoemon (与右衛門, right)

Play: Kuruwa kuruwa date no ôyose (曲輪来伊達大寄, Coming! Coming to the Pleasure Quarter: Great Gathering of the Date Clan)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Eizaburô III as the geisha Okiku (芸者 お菊)

Center sheet: Onoe Kikugorô III as the ghost of Hanyûmura Suke (羽生村助の亡魂) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Shinzô Takao (新造高尾)

Right sheet: Mimasu Gennosuke I as Kinegawa Yoemon (木下川与右衛門)

Play: Kuruwa kuruwa date no ôyose (曲輪来伊達大寄, Coming! Coming to the Pleasure Quarter: Great Gathering of the Date Clan)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

NOTE: The cartouche in the center panel reads Ghost of Suke of Hanyû village, Onoe Baikô, phenomenal new ghost role (Hanyûmura Suke no bôkon, Onoe Baikô, shin kufû kitai no kaidan, 羽生村助の亡魂, 尾上梅幸, 新工夫稀代之怪段). Note that Onoe Kikugorô III is referred to by his former name.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these two sheets from another state of the above image, without the blue background behind the ghost.

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikunosuke I as つるき代 (child) and Onoe Baiko III as tsubone Masaoka (政岡)

Center sheet: Sawamura Tosshô I as Fuwa Benzaemon (不破伴左衛門)

Right sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Ashikaga Yorikane (よりかね)

Play: Kuruwa kuruwa date no ôyose (曲輪来伊達大寄, Coming! Coming to the Pleasure Quarter: Great Gathering of the Date Clan)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

NOTE: The center sheet was recut for a production of Hakonegon genrei genki in the 8^th month of 1839.

I am grateful to Robet Pryor for this sheet from another state of the above triptych.

Actors: Iwai Hanshirô VI as Oshichi (仲町のげいしやさかみやの悪なまのお七, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Izuya no Jirô imitating Yuranosuke (下男三助 狸の角兵衛 是ヲ船頭伊豆屋の次郎 実は久上のぜんじ (right)

Play: Sugawararyû kanagaki Soga (菅原流国字曽我)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Moritaza

Publisher: Edo-ya Matsugorô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Kobayashi no Asahina (小林の朝比奈, left), Iwai Hanshirô VI as Soga no Goro Tokimune, also playing Sakuramaru and Sadakurô (桜丸 定九郎是を曽我の五郎時宗, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ômi no Kotota Nariie, also playing Matsuômaru and Honzô (松王丸 本蔵是近江の小藤太成家, right)

Play: Sugawararyû kanagaki Soga (菅原流国字曽我)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Moritaza

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ômi no Kotôta Nariie (近江の小藤太成家)

Play: Sugawararyû kanagaki Soga (菅原流国字曽我)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Moritaza

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

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

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as Sukenari (祐成)

Play: Sugawararyû kanagaki Soga (菅原流国字曽我)

Date: 2^nd month of 1836

Theater: Moritaza

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this design, two states of which are shown.

Actors: Iwai Matsunosuke II (left) and Iwai Shijaku I (right)

Inscriptions: 五十四帖の源氏を其侭　月雪花に話まとめて　席書扇絵合　第二番目大切ニ岩井紫若相勤申候

Play: Kaite mitsuogi no eawase (席書扇絵合)

Date: 3^rd month of 1836

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tsuta-ya Kichizô

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

Diptych title: Kagamiyama (an alternate title for the play) in the Rear Garden (Kagamiyama, Okuniwa no ba, 鏡山 奥庭の場)

Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as Ohatsu (おはつ, left) and Ichikawa Danzô V as Iwafuji (岩藤, right)

Play: Kazashi no hana shibai no sangatsu (花頭劇弥生)

Date: 3^rd month of 1836

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

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

Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as Ohatsu (おはつ)

Play: Kazashi no hana shibai no sangatsu (花頭劇弥生)

Date: 3^rd month of 1836

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ise-ya Heikichi

NOTE: The left sheet is for the 1836 production of Kazashi no hana shibai no sangatsu.  The right sheet was originally created for the 1832 production of Sakura doki onna gyoretsu.  I am grateful to Marc DeVriese and Robert Pryor for these images.

Actors: Ichikawa Danzô V as Taira no Tomomori (新中納言知盛)

Play: Yoshitsune Sembon Zakura (義経千本桜)

Date: 3^rd month of 1836

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

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

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