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 Robert Pryor for this image of another state of the above triptych without Kuniyoshi’s kiri seals.

Title: Ataru ken kurabe

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 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Nomura-ya Tokubei

Partial text: ... three... men who retrieved a Kannon image from the Sumida River and enshrined it founding the... Senso-ji...

 

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: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵, left), Bandô Shûka I as Kasane (かさね, center), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Hanyûya Sukesaburô (羽生屋助三郎, 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: 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 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: 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.

Triptych title: Katsumoto, through His Wisdom, Defeats Danjô (Katsumoto meichi wo motte Danjô wo utsu, 勝元明知を以て弾正を討)

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Nikki [Danjô] Naonori (仁木直則, left), Bandô Takesaburô I as Izutsu Menosuke (井筒女之助, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII 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 3rd month of 1849 with Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII (below right) replacing Ichimura Uzaemon XII (below left) as Hosogawa Katsumoto:

 

 

 

The same woodblocks were used for three different performances with recarved actors’ faces.  The left sheet shows Onoe Kikugorô III as Nikki [Danjô] Naonori in Sendai-gashi Iro no Funakomi, performed in the 5th month of 1847.  The center sheet shows Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as Nikki [Danjô] Naonori in Date kurabe Okuni kabuki, performed in the 3rd month of 1849.  The right sheet shows Matsumoto Kinshô I as Nikki [Danjô] Naonori in Date zensei sakura no iromaku, performed in the 4th 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.

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 III as Ofusa (於房, right)

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 III as Senzaki Yagorô (千崎弥五郎) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (早の勘平)

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 Taijirô

 

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 III as Hanazaki (花ざき, right)

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

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