Actor triptychs
1846
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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: 4th
month of 1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Takahisa |
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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: 4th month
of 1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kame-ya Iwakichi |
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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: 4th month
of 1846 (censor Watanabe Shôemon) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô |
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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: 5th
month of 1846 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kasei |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state of the above triptych. |
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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:
5th 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. |
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Actors: Nakamura
Utaemon IV as Aoto Fujitsuna (青砥藤綱) Play: Aoto Zôshi (青砥稿) Date: 7th
month of 1846 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya
Masagorô |
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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: 11th
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 11th month of 1853. |
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Another state of the above triptych with a black band on top |
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