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

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 Takao

Right sheet: Mimasu Gennosuke I as Kinugawa 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

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese 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: 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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