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: 4th
month of 1847 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Jôshû-ya (上州屋), with seal
reading Oku (重七) |
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state with the differences most obvious in Umegae’s costume. |
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: 4th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Yahata-ya
Sakujirô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and 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. |
Title: ... three... men who retrieved a Kannon image from the Sumida River and
enshrined it founding the... Senso-ji... 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: 4th
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 (濱成) Play: Shiki no hina
Asakusa hakkei (時翫雛浅草八景) Date: 4th
month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) 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: 4th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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: 5th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state without any purple. |
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this sheet
from an additional state of the triptych. |
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: 5th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Nomura-ya Tokubei I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state. |
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: 5th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Yahata-ya Sakujirô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and to Lucienne Parkan for information about the 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: 5th
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: 5th
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
Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込) Date: 5th
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: 5th month
of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Iba-ya Sanzaburô |
I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state. |
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: 5th 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. |
Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ashikaga Yorikane
(頼兼) Center sheet: Bandô Shûka
I as Takao (高尾) Right sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as
Ashikaga Yorikane (頼兼) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Takao (高尾) Play: Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi (先代河岸艶船込) Date: 5th month
of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
The left sheet is from another state with bokashi
(shading) on the hakama. The
right sheet was printed from partially recarved woodblocks, probably intended
as a stand alone print. I am grateful
to Robert Pryor for both of these images. |
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 Shûka
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: 6th
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 4th
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) Play:
Chûshin meimei kikigaki zosho (忠臣列撰随筆蔵) Date:
6th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Sasa-ya Matabei NOTE:
These woodblocks were partially recarved and reused for the performance of Kanadehon Chûshingura in the 4th
intercalated month of 1849*. I am
grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Tsunagorô (綱五郎, left) and Iwai Kumesaburô
Play: Chûshin meimei kikigaki zosho (忠臣列撰随筆蔵) Date: 6th
month of 1847 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Shimizu-ya
Naojirô |
Another state of the above diptych |
Actors: Left sheet:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平) Center sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎) Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô Play: Chûshin meimei kikigaki zosho (忠臣列撰随筆蔵) Date: 6th
month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Kobayashi
Tajirô NOTE: This is a
modified version of a design that was originally published for Kanadehon Chûshingura in the 8th
month of 1835. |
Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Tsunagorô (綱五郎, left) and
Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Chûshin meimei kikigaki zosho (忠臣列撰随筆蔵) Date: 6th
month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Iba-ya
Sensaburô |
*An extra month inserted between the 4th and 5th months
in the same manner as an extra day is added to a leap year |