Actor triptychs

1846

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Hanaregoma Chôkichi (放駒蝶吉, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Nuregami Chôgorô (濡髪長五郎, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Chokichi’s older sister Oseki (蝶吉姉於世喜, right)

Play: Kochô Shibori Narumi no Shingata (蝶蝶絞成観新模)

Date: 4^th month of 1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Takahisa

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Oseki (おせき, left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Chôkichi (長吉, center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Chôgorô (長五郎, right)

Play: Kochô Shibori Narumi no Shingata (蝶蝶絞成観新模)

Date: 4^th month of 1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kame-ya Iwakichi

Actors: Probably Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Yamazaki Yogorô (山崎与五郎, left) and an unidentified actor as the courtesan Fujiya Azuma (藤屋吾妻, right)

Play: Kochô Shibori Narumi no Shingata (蝶蝶絞成観新模)

Date: 4^th month of 1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sato Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂七, left), Bandô Shuka I as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力弥, center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 5^th month of 1846

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Sugawara no Michizane (菅原の道真, left), unidentified actor as Fujiwara Shihei (藤原時平 公, center), and another unidentified actor as Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵, right)

Play: Tenmangû wakaba no koaishu (天満宮緑梅松桜)

Date: 5^th month of 1846

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kasei

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

Triptych title: Copy-book of Loyalty (Chûkô tenarai-zôshi, 忠孝手習艸紙)

Actors: Ichikawa Shinsha I as Sakuramaru’s wife (nyobo) Yae (女房八重, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Toneri Sakuramaru (舎人桜丸, center), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the peasant Shiradayû (百姓白太夫, right)　

Play: Tenmangû wakaba no koaishu (天満宮緑梅松桜)

Date: 5^th month of 1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

NOTE: The right sheet is listed in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) as S41.1, with “Copy-book of Loyalty” assumed to be the title of a series. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this triptych.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Aoto Fujitsuna (青砥藤綱)

Play: Aoto Zôshi (青砥稿)

Date: 7^th month of 1846

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

Actors: Unidentified actor as Ono no Komachi (left), Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Sekibei (関兵衛, center), and also as Munesada (宗貞, right)

Play: Tsumoru koi yuki no seki no to (積恋雪関扉, Love and Deep Snow at the Mountain Barrier)

Date: 11^th month of 1846

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

NOTE: A modified version of this design was republished for the performance of Tsumoru koi yukino seki no to in the 11^th month of 1853.

Another state of the above triptych with a black band on top

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