Actor triptychs
1847, Part V
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ebizako no Ju (ゑびざこの十, left), Bandô Shuka I as Mikazuki Osen (三日月おせん, center) and
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Saitoware
Kunitake (斎藤吾国武, right) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kame-ya Iwakichi |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the
above triptych. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ebizako no Ju (ゑびざこの十, left) and Bandô Shuka I as Mikazuki Osen (三日月おせん, right) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ebizako no Ju (海老ざこの十, left) and Bandô Shûka I as Mikkazuke Osen (三ヶ月おせん, right) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Tajima-ya Saburô |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kurôda
Ukinaga (蔵人行長) Center sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Saitôgo Kunitake (斎藤吾国武, with bow),
and Bandô Shuka I as Onna Gyôja
(女行者, woman) Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Osada no Tarô Nagamune (長田の太郎長宗) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tada kurôdo
Yukitsuna (多田蔵人行綱) and Bandô Shuka I as the ghost of Naruto-no-mae (鳴門の前の霊) Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Akugenda Yoshihira (悪源太義平) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Hasebe Nobutsana
(長谷部長七信綱) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Saitôgo Kunitake
(斎藤吾国武, left),
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kurando
Yukinaga (蔵人行長, center), and
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Osadanotaro
Nagamune (長田の太郎長宗, right) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ebizako no Ju (海老ざ この十, left), Bandô Shûka I as Mikkazuke Osen (三日月 おせん, center), and
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Taira no Munemori (平宗盛, right) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Saitôgo Kunitake (斎藤吾国武, left) and
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Osada no Tarô Nagamune (長田の太郎長宗, right) Play: Genke Hachidai
Megumi no tsuwa mono (源家八代恵剛者, The Valiant Warriors of Eight Generations of the
Minamoto Clan) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Left sheet courtesy of Jenny Bastian |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Ushiwakamaru (源牛若丸, left) and the
young Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashibô
Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶, right) Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙) Date: 11th
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kame-ya Iwakichi NOTE: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka is a dance that is also known as Kaminari sendô (The Boatman and the Thunder) and as Natsu sendô (The Boatman in Summer). |
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Title on each
sheet:
Examples of Valor (Buyû chikaragusa,
武勇千柄草) Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Hako-o Maru (箱王丸, left),
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fudô
Myôô (center), Ichikawa Ebizô
V as Shakkyô (石橋, right) Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Iseyo of Owarichô Text: At Mount Hakone, Soga Hakoômaru
exacts vengeance on Saemon Suketsune
for the death of his father. The
spirit of Fudô Myôô,
sympathetic to his filial piety, bestows strength upon him. (Hakone San nioite Soga no Hakoômaru chichi
no ada wo utan tote Saemon Suketsune wo chôbuku nasu Fudô Myôô no Sonrei kôshin wo awaremi chikara wo sofe tamafu, 箱根山において曽我 の箱王丸父の仇を 討んとて左衛門 祐経を調伏なす 不動明王の尊霊 孝心を憐み力を 添へたまふ) NOTE: These prints
may be considered to be a series of single sheets or arranged as a
triptych. I am grateful to Robert
Pryor for this image and information. |
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Another state with multicolor title cartouches |
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Diptych title: Funa Benkei (舟へんけい) Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as the angrily dancing ghost of general Tomomori
(新中納言知盛, left) and
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) praying Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙) Date: 11th
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Iseyo of Owarichô NOTE: The website
of the Tokyo Metropolitan Library dates this diptych as being from the 4th
month of 1847, without specifying the play. |
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Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the boatman (船人) Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image. |
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Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji
IV as Kaminari (かみ鳴) Play:
Shiki utsushi
tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙) Date:
11th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashi-bo
Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶, left) and
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Minamoto Ushiwakamaru
(源牛若丸, right) Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙) Date: 11th
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô |
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Text on
triptych: Right sheet: Sugawara Denju
(菅原伝授) Left sheet: 車びきの段 Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as Sakuramaru
(桜丸) Center sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Fujiwara Tokihira-ko (藤原時平公) and Matsumoto
Kinshô I as Umeômaru (梅王丸) Right sheet: Sawamura Sôjûrô
V as Matsuômaru (松王丸) Play: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑, Sugawara and
the Secrets of Calligraphy) Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater:
Kawasaki Publisher: Iba-ya Sensabur |
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Konya Tokubei (京紺屋徳兵衛, left), Seki Sanjûrô III as 法花山袈裟太郎 実ハ次郎兵衛盛次 (center), and
Onoe Kikujirô II as 於初 (right) Play: Yashima no ura ume no koamise (八島裏梅鑑) Date: 11th
month of 1847 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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