Actor triptychs

1836, Part II

 

Actors: Sawamura Tossho I as Tamaya Shinbei (left) and Ichikawa Danzô V as Saitô Tarozaemon (斎藤太郎左衛門, right)

Play: Ôtô no Miya Asahi no yoroi (Asahi Armor of the House of Miya Oto, 大塔宮曦鎧)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 5th month of 1836

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state without background patern or publisher’s seal.

Actors: Sawamura Tosshô I as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛, left), Nakamura Shijûrô as Ukai Kujûrô (鵜飼九十郎, center), and Iwai Shijaku I as Mikuni Kojorô (小女郎, right)

Play: Tomigaoka koi no Yamabiraki (富岡恋山開)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 5th month of 1836

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state without any purple.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this sheet from an alternate state of the above triptych.

Actors: Ichikawa Takejûrô (市川武十郎) in an unidentified role (left), Sawamura Tosshô I as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛, center), and Ichikawa Danzaburô V as Yûzô (right)

Play: Tomigaoka koi no Yamabiraki (富岡恋山開)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 5th month of 1836

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

 

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Taro Mitsukuni (大家太郎光国, left), Ichikawa Kuzô II as Keisei Kisaragi who is actually Yasha hime (keisei Kisaragi jitsuha Yasha hime, けいせいきさらぎ 実は滝夜叉姫, center), and Ichikawa Dansaburô V as Saginuma Tarô Noritomo (鷺沼太郎則友, right)

Play: Yoni Uto Soma no furugosho (世善知相馬旧殿)

Theater: Ichimura

Date: 6th month of 1836

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as the Ghost of Oiwa (お岩亡霊) haunting Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kamiya Iemon (神谷伊右衛門)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Theater: Morita

Date: 7th  month of 1836

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kamiya Iemon (left) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Oiwa no bokon (the ghost of Oiwa, right)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Theater: Morita

Date: 7th month of 1836

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Tamiya Iemon (神谷伊右衛門)

Center sheet: Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Naosuke (直助), and Onoe Kikugorô III as the ghost of Oiwa

Right sheet: Onoe Eizaburô III as Oume (お弓)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiyemon

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above triptych without any purple.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kamiya Iemon (民谷伊右衛門)

Right sheet: Onoe Kikugorô III as Oume (お花) and Onoe Kikugorô III as ghost of Kobotoke Kohei (お岩小平ぼうこん) 

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kamiya Iemon (民谷伊右衛門, left), Onoe Eizaburô III as Yume (夢の場, right), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Oiwa’s ghost (尾上菊五郎)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (The dream scene in A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Edo-ya Matsugorô

 

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

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state.

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as こん兵へ忰直介 (left), Onoe Eizaburô III in unidentified role (center), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Satô Yomoshichi (right)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

(Actors: Onoe Eizaburô III as Yomoshichi’s wife (nyôbô) Osode (与茂七 女房 おそで, left) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Satô Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂七, right)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as nyôbo Oiwa (女房 お岩, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kamiya Iemon (民谷伊右衛門, right)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Komamono-ya Yomoshichi (小間物や与茂七, left), Iwai Shijaku I as Osode (おそで, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kamiya Iemon (神谷伊右衛門, right)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Theater: Morita

Date: 7th month of 1836

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei

 

NOTE: The text on the banners and lanterns is advertising.  The bold text on the left sheet is the publisher’s street address (Bakur 2, 馬喰 二) and name (Yamaguchi, 山口).  I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this triptych. 

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Satô Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂七実ハ)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (A Ghost Tale of Yotsuya on the Tokaido Road, 東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Saginuma Tarô (鷺沼太郎, left), Ichikawa Kuzô II as 善知安方 (center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Yoshikado (平太郎良門, right)

Play: Yoni Uto Soma no furugosho

Date: 7th month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Arashi Shichigorô IV as Minamoto no Yorimasa (left) and Ichikawa Danzaburô V as Ino Hayata Tadazumi (right)

Play: Yorimasa nue monogatari (頼政鵺物語, The Story of Yorimasa and the Nue)

Date: 8th month of 1836

Theater: Naka (in Osaka)

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

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

A simplified state of a sheet from the preceding diptych

Actors: Iwai Tojaku I as Omiwa (おみわ, left), Seki Sanjûrô ​​II as Fukashichi (ふ か 七, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Motome (もとめ, right)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 9th month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Probably Takenouchi Mahohachi.  The seal combines kiwame (approved, 極) and Take (竹).

 

The right and left sheets are a gift of the Utagawa-ha Monjin-kai to the Birmingham Museum of Art, USA.  I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan an Horst Graebner for information about this triptych.

Actors: Iwai Tojaku I as Sakeya musume (daughter of) Omiwa (酒や娘お三輪)

Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue)

Date: 9th month of 1836

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sôshû-ya Yohei

 

NOTE: This print was produced with woodblocks originally used for the 1833 production of the same play, with the face and the actor’s name recut.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Nagoya Sanzaburô (名古屋山三郎, left), Iwai Shijaku I as Izumoya Okuni (center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Fuwa Banzaemon (不波伴左衛門, right)

Play: Nagoya obi kumo ni inazuma (名護屋帯雲稲妻, A Nagoya Rope Sash and Robes with Lightning Bolts amidst Clouds)

Date: 9th month of 1836

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

 

NOTE:  This triptych was printed from recut woodblocks originally used for the production of Hana butai yoshiya otoko in the 3rd month of 1835.  I am grateful to Herman Schoenmakers and Erich Synek for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Medama no Jinza (目玉の仁三)

Play: Kioi Genji Mitsugi no Tamamono (勢源氏貢扇 or 勢源氏貢賜)

Date: 11th month of 1836

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Shôzô

 

NOTE: The shoji screen is decorated with Kuniyoshi’s Yoshi Kiri seal.  I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information about this print.

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