Actor triptychs

1847, Part I

 

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Actors: Left sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Oniô Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門) and Bandô Shûka I as Maidzuru (舞つる)

Center sheet: Onoe Tamizô II as Yawata Saburô (八幡三郎), Nakamura Gennosuke II as Jûrô Sukenari (十郎祐成), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Soga Gorô

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ômi Kotôta (近江小藤太), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Kudo Saemon (工藤祐経)

Play: Kumite Mimasu Soga no Hatsuyume (綬三升曽我初夢)

Theater: Nakamura

Date: 1st month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô

Actors: Seki Sanjûrô as yakko Yata ( 矢田平)

Play: Kumite Mimasu Soga no Hatsuyume (綬三升曽我初夢)

Date: 1st month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Iwai Kumisaburô III as Aburaya Osome (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Honchô Tsunagorô (center), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Aburaya Daisaburô (right)

Play: Kumite Mimasu Soga no Hatsuyume (綬三升曽我初夢)

Date: 1st month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Iwai Kumisaburô III as Aburaya Osome (油屋お染, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Honchô Tsunagorô (本町綱五郎, center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as detchi (apprentice) Hisamatsu (てつち久松, right)

Play: Kumite Mimasu Soga no Hatsuyume (綬三升曽我初夢)

Date: 1st month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Wakau (若宇)

 

I am grateful to Paul Steier for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門, left) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Kirihime (桐姫, right)

Play: Kumite Mimasu Soga no Hatsuyume (綬三升曽我初夢)

Date: 1st month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei

 

NOTE: The right sheet bears the seals of the censors Hama and Kinugasa, which are appropriate for the 1st month of 1847.  However, the left sheet has the seal of the censor Watanabe Shôemon, which was used alone from the 6th month of 1842 to the 5th intercalary month of 1846, indicating that the panel was originally designed for a different production.  I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych.

Actors: Left sheet: Asao Tamejûrô as Sakurai Rinzaemon (桜井林左工門) fighting Ichikawa Kuzô II as Ikezoe Magohachi (池添孫八), and an unidentified actor as Koshiai Kanshiro (越合官四郎)

Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Karaki Masaemon (唐木政右エ門)

Right sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Sawai Matagorô (沢井又五郎) fighting Matsumoto Kinshô I as Wada Shizuma (和田静夫), and an unidentified actor as Takeuchi Dennai (竹内傳内)

Play: Norikake Soga dôchû sugoroku (飾駒曽我通双六)

Date: 1st month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Wada Shizuma (left), Otani Tomoemon IV as Sawai Matagoro (center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Karaki Masaemon (right)

Play: Norikake Soga dôchû sugoroku (飾駒曽我通双六)

Date: 1st month of 1847

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Nomura-ya Tokubei

Actors: Left sheet:

Center sheet: Otani Tomoemon IV as Sawai Matagoro and Matsumoto Kinshô I as Wada Shizuma

Right sheet:

Play: Norikake Soga dôchû sugoroku (飾駒曽我通双六)

Date: 1st month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) 

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state with a solid red title cartouche.

Actors: Left sheet:

Center sheet: Otani Tomoemon IV as Sawai Matagoro

Right sheet:

Play: Norikake Soga dôchû sugoroku (飾駒曽我通双六)

Date: 1st month of 1847 (censor Fukatsu Ihei) 

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei

Actors: Left sheet: Fujikawa Kayû III as Azuma (あづま) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Yamazaki no wan hisa (山崎の椀久)

Center sheet: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Horie no Wankyû (堀江の椀久)

Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as Matsuyama (松山) and Seki Sanjûrô III as menu Gohei (めんう 五兵衛)

Play: Omeyana gitsui no aigasa (梅柳対相傘)

Date: 1st month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Dankurô (団九郎, left), unidentified actor as Oren (center), and Bandô Hikosaburô V as Kichisuke (吉助, right)

Play: Butai no Hana Yayoi no Irotoki (台比雪花隅色薗)

Date: 2nd month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei

 

Image courtesy of Pierre Wijermans

Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Mihonoya Shiro Kunitoshi (国登志, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Dankurô (団九郎, center), and an unidentified actor as Masamune musume Oren (正宗 れん, right)

Play: Butai no Hana Yayoi no Irotoki (台比雪花隅色薗)

Date: 2nd month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Onoe Tamiziô II as sumô wrestler Onigatake Horaemon (鬼ヶ嶽鉄右衛門, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as wrestler Akitsushima Kuniemon (秋津嶋 国右衛門, right)

Play: Sekitori Nidai no shobu zuke (関取二代勝負付)

Date: 2nd month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as wrestler Akitsushima Kuniemon (right)

Play: Sekitori Nidai no shobu zuke (関取二代勝負付)

Date: 2nd month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Onoe Tamiziô II as sumô wrestler Onigatake Horaemon (鬼ヶ嶽洞右衛門, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as wrestler Akitsushima Kuniemon (秋津嶋国右衛門, right)

Play: Sekitori Nidai no shobu zuke (関取二代勝負付)

Date: 2nd month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kobayashi-ya Matsugorô of Honseki-chô

 

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

I am grateful to Marc Devriese for this image of another state of the above print without the gourd-shaped publisherʼs seal. 

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Yoshida Matsuwaka maru (left), Bandô Shuka I as Seigen Ama (center), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Sarushima Sota (right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

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A sheet from another state of the above design, courtesy of Marc DeVriese

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Sarushima Sota (猿嶋惣太, left), Bandô Shûka I as Ohatsu (召仕おはつ, center), and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Yoshida Matsuwakamaru (吉田の下部軍助, right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Another state of the above design without the roles in red boxes

'Kagamiyama Kokyo no Nishiki-e' of the maid Ohatsu confronting Iwafuji in a garden at night, 1847-8

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Ohatsu (left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Lady Iwafuji (right) 

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kyôji

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

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Ohatsu (left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Lady Iwafuji (right) 

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei

Actors: Onoe Baiko IV as chûrô Onoe (中老 尾上, left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Lady Iwafuji ( 岩藤, right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shoshichi

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Yoshida Matsuwakamaru (left) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Sarushima Sota (right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

Title of triptych: Crossing on the Sumida River (隅田川渡場之圖, Sumidagawa watashiba no zu)

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Sarushima Sota (猿島惣太, left), Iwai Hanshirô V as the nun Seigen (女清玄, center), and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Yoshida Matsuwakamaru (吉田松若丸) fishing for a woman’s kimono (right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

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Title of triptych: 忠孝加々 見山

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Ohatsu (召仕 お初, left), Onoe Baiko IV as chûrô Onoe (中老 尾上, center), and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Lady Iwafuji ( 岩藤, right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

 

NOTE: The right sheet of this triptych was slightly modified and reprinted for the production of Kamakura yamasakura no gosho zome in the 3rd month of 1848.

Title: Poetic Justice, Matsuwaka’s Biography (勧善懲悪 松若伝記)

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as the Buddhist nun Seigen (清玄尼, left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Yoshida Matsuwakamaru (松若丸, right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Another state of the above design

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Seigen

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Yoshida Matsuwakamaru (松若丸, left) and Bandô Shuka I as the Buddhist nun Seigen (清玄尼, right)

Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji (初桜尾上岩藤)

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Triptych title: Three People Drinking at the Beginning of Spring (Shunkyô sannin namayoi)

Dance interlude: Warau kado niwaka no shichifuku

Description: Ichikawa Kuzô II, Nakamura Utaemon IV as fisherman Hinokiguma Hamanari (center), and Matsumoto Kinshô I playing ken 

Date: 3rd month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Takano-ya Tomoemon

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

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Triptych title: Comic Ken (Dôke miburi ken)

Dance interlude: Warau kado niwaka no shichifuku

Description: Nakamura Utaemon IV, Ichikawa Kuzô II, and Matsumoto Kinshô I playing ken 

Date: 3rd month of 1847

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kadzusa-ya Iwazô

 

NOTE: The small figures illustrate the dance steps.

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