Actor triptychs

1847, Part III

Actors: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Dôguja Jinza (道具屋甚三, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hôkaibô (法界坊, center), and Onoe Baikô IV as Jinza’s wife Okumi (おくみ, right)

Play: Hitofudegaki soda no hatsukari (一筆書墨田初雁)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this keyblock print for a panel of the above triptych.

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Okumi (於くみ, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the ghost of Princes Nowake (野分 姫 ぼうこん, right)

Play: Hitofudegaki soda no hatsukari (一筆書墨田初雁)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hôkaibô (法界坊, right) and Matsumoto Kinshô I as Dôguja Jinza (道具屋甚三, left)

Play: Hitofudegaki soda no hatsukari (一筆書墨田初雁)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Itô-ya Yohei

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the evil priest Hôkaibô (法界坊, left), Matsumoto Kinshô I as Dôguya Jinza (道具や甚三, center), and Onoe Baikô IV as Jinza’s wife Okumi (おくみ, right)

Play: Hitofudegaki soda no hatsukari (一筆書墨田初雁)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Man (phonetic pronunciation of 万)

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hôkaibô (法界坊, left) and Onoe Baikô IV as Okumi (right)

Play: Hitofudegaki soda no hatsukari (一筆書墨田初雁)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Jûzô

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Title cartouche: Kanadehon Chushingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)

Actors: Actor as Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本, center) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chushingura

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Unidentified

NOTE: The Waseda University website identifies this unsigned print as being by Kuniyoshi. The square seal is not listed in Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium by Andreas Marks, 2011, Hotei Publishing, Leiden

Actors: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Shiragara Jûemon (白柄十右衛門, left) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Goshaku Somegoro (五尺染五郎) and Onoe Kikugorô III as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門伝吉, inset)

Right sheet: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Shiragara Jûemon (白柄十右衛門) and Bandô Shûka I as Komurasaki (小紫, inset)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Left sheet: Ôtani Hiroemon V as the maid O-ura (道具屋娘おうち, standing) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Teshiro Kiyoshichi (手代清七, kneeling)

Right sheet: Nakayama Bungorô II as the servant Denpachi (手代伝八) and Bandô Shuka I as Danshichi’s wife O-kaji (団七女房おかぢ)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Danshichi’s wife O-kaji (団七女房おかぢ, left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Teshiro Kiyoshichi (手代清七, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

I am grateful to Michel Ouellet for this image and information.

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tsukimoto Inaba no suke (月本いなばの助, left), Onoe Kikugorô III as Tenjuku Tokubei (天竺徳兵衛, center), and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Tamashima Itto (玉しま逸とふ, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as the magician Tenjiku Tokubei (天竺徳兵衛), with a severed head of Yoshioka Sôkanin his mouth

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher:

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

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as the cat-witch (古幸猫のよふかい)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Nippon Daemon (日本駄右エ門, left), Onoe Kikugorô III as the cat-witch (古猫之怪, center) and Bandô Shuka I as Kineya Onaka (杵屋おなか, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this keyblock print for the right sheet of the above triptych.

Title: An Imaginary Scene of the Origin of the Cat Stone at Okabe, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Mitate Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi Okabe neko ishi no yurai, 見立東海道五十三次岡部猫石の由来)

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Inaba no suke (大江因幡之助, left), Onoe Kikugorô III as the cat-witch (center), and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Teranishi Kanshin (寺西関心, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ku (phonetic reading of ク)

Actors: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Teranishi Kanshin (寺西閑心, left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Inabanosuke (因幡之助, center), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Usugomo with the cat-gost Okabe (right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei

I am grateful to Edward Pieters for information about this triptych.

Two sheets from another state of the above design

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Usugomo and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Inabanosuke (因幡之助)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Shibaemon (斯波右衛門, left), Onoe Kikugorô III as Tenjiku Kaja (天竺冠者, center), and Bandô Shuka I as Princess Morokoshi (唐土姫, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Chû (phonetic pronunciation of 忠)

Title: Otsu (大津)

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as the bandit leader Nippon Daemon (left) and Onoe Kikugorô III as the Buddhist holy man (rakan) Nakasaina Sonja (right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tajima-ya Saburô

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikugorô III as Tenjiku Kaja Dainichimaru (天竺冠者)

Center sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tsukimoto Enshû (月本遠州) and Onoe Kikugorô III in an unidentified role

Right sheet: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Shiba Saemon (斯波右エ門)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ise-ya Ichibe

Actors: Probably Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Shiragara Jûemon on the right

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Mimasu Gennosuke as Teranishi Kanshin (寺西閑心, left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Nakano Tohei (中野藤兵衛, center), and Onoe Kikugorô III as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門伝吉, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

NOTE: The Waseda University website dates this triptych to 7^th month of 1854 and the play Tabi Tuzume aiyado banashi (旅雀我好話), but the censor’s seals are clearly from 1847-48.

Actors: Mimasu Gennosuke as Teranishi Kanshin (left) on a palanquin being carried by coolies across the Oigawa river, Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Nakano Tohei (center) subduing an opponent on the shore, and Onoe Kikugorô III as Tenjiku Kanja (Tokubei) standing on the shore (right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

Actors:

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Actors: Onoe Kikugorô III as Tenjuku Tokubei (天竺徳兵衛)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Unidentified actor as Ishii Gennoshin (石井源之進, left), Onoe Kikugorô III as Tenjiku Kaja (天竺冠者, center), and Bandô Shûka I as Todo hime (唐土姫, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Juzô

Actors: Unidentified actor as Neriko no ... (此兵衛ねりこ の 此兵衛, left), Bandô Shûka I as Neriko no Matsukaze (ねりこ の 松風, center), and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Neriko no Gyohei (行平 ねりこ の 行平, right)

Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime of Onoe Kikugorô III)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Saitô Tarozaemon (斎藤太郎左エ門, left) and Onoe Baikô IV as Uma-gashira’s wife Hanazono (右馬頭妻花園, right)

Play: Ôtô no miya Ashi no Yoroi (大塔宮曦鎧)

Date: 7^th month of 1847

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

NOTE: This diptych is from the series Select Series of Book Titles

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Chobakure (ちょぼくれ) and Bandô Shûka I as Asazuma (浅妻, inset)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Chatsumi (茶つみ), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sarumawatsu (さるまわし) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Umegae (梅ヶ枝, inset)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as no Tekomahi (祭礼 のてこまひ) and an unidentified actor as Genta (源太, inset)

Play: Yamato Gana Iro no Nana Moji (倭仮名色七文字)

Date: 7^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô (outer sheets) and Minato-ya Kohei (center sheet)

NOTE: Since this “triptych” bears the seals of two different publishers, it may not have been intended to be displayed in this manner.

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