Kuniyoshi Project

Actor triptychs

1847, Part II

Actors: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Sumiyoshi no reijin (a resident of) Fujitarô (住吉の伶人富士太郎, left), Onoe Baikô IV as the courtesan Umegae (梅ヶ枝, center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hidari Jingorô (左甚五郎, right)

Play: Fukujukai muryô denki (福聚海駒量伝記)

Date: 4^th month of 1847

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Jôshû-ya (上州屋), with seal reading Oku (重七)

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Actors: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Sumiyoshi no reijin (a resident of) Fujitarô (住吉の住人富士太郎, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Asama Saemon (浅間左エ門, center), and Onoe Baikô IV as Umegae (梅ヶ枝, right)

Play: Fukujukai muryô denki (福聚海駒量伝記)

Date: 4^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Yahata-ya Sakujirô

I am grateful to Jerry Vegder for information about this triptych.

I am grateful to and Lucienne Parkan for this image of another state of the above triptych.

Actors: Matsumoto Kinshô IV as Hamanari (浜成), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hinoki no kuma (檜の熊), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Takenari (武成)

Play: Shiki no hina Asakusa hakkei (時翫雛浅草八景)

Date: 4^th month of 1847

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Nomura-ya Tokubei

NOTE: The roles refer to the three Sensô-ji Buddhist temple: Hinokuma Hamanari, Hajino Nakatomo and Hinokuma Takenari. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image

Actors: Matsumoto Kinshô IV as Hamanari (浜成), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hinoki no kuma (檜の熊), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Takenari (武成)

Play: Shiki no hina Asakusa hakkei (時翫雛浅草八景)

Date: 4^th month of 1847

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hinoki no kuma (檜の熊) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Takenari (武成)

Play: Shiki no hina Asakusa hakkei (時翫雛浅草八景)

Date: 4^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Torazô (虎蔵, left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Chienai (智恵内, center), and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼, right)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)

Date: 5^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Bandô Mitsugorô V as Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸, left), Sawamura Sojûrô V as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Mimaya Kisanda (御厩鬼三太, right)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)

Date: 5^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Nomura-ya Tokubei

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Yôemon (与右エ門, left), Bandô Shûka I as Kasane (かさね, center), and Nakamura Shijûrô I as Kingorô (金五郎, right)

Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込)

Date: 5^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yahata-ya Sakujirô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this triptych.

Actors: Unidentified actor as Hanyu-ya Sukesaburô, Bandô Shûka I as Kasane (かさね, center), and an unidentified actor as Ogawa Tanizô

Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込)

Date: 5^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Kasane (かさね)

Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込)

Date: 5^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kita-ya Magobei

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Nikki Danjô (left), Sawamura Sojûrô V as Watanabe Mimbu (centre), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Hosokawa Katsumoto (right)

Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込)

Date: 5^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Diptych title: Competition of Good and Evil in the Date Clan (善悪伊達競)

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正, left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Izutsu Menosuke (井筒女之助, right)

Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込)

Date: 5^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sanzaburô

NOTE: I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for the sheet on the far left, which might be another state. However, the unappealing colors suggest that it is, at least in part, the result of chemical changes.

Actors: Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as Nikki [Danjô] Naonori (仁木直則, left), Bandô Takesaburô I as Izutsu Menosuke (井筒女之助, center), and Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as Hosogawa Katsumoto (細川勝元, right)

Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込)

Date: 5^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

NOTE: This triptych was altered and reused for the performance of Date kurabe Okuni kabuki in the third month of 1849.

Triptych title: Kanadehon chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Center sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Okaru (おかる)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Ichimonjiya Saihei (一もんじや才兵衛)

Play: Chûshin meimei kikigaki zosho (忠臣列撰随筆蔵)

Date: 6^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

NOTE: The wood blocks for the left and center panels were reused for the performance of Kanadehon Chûshingura in the 4^th month of 1849.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this hanshita-e (final drawing) for the preceding triptych.

Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Okaru (おかる, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (早の勘平, center), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Ichimonjiya Saihei (一もんじや才兵衛, right)