Actor triptychs

1847, Part V

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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kame-ya Iwakichi

Two sheets from another state of the above triptych

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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tajima-ya Saburô

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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tada Kurahito 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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II 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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

NOTE: This triptych is listed on the website of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University as dating from the 11^th month of 1840, but that appears to be an error.

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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

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)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

Left sheet courtesy of Jenny Bastian

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: 11^th 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).

Title on each sheet: Examples of Valor (Bûyû chigaragusa, 武勇千柄草)

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hako-o Maru (箱王丸, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Benkei (center), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Shakkyô (石橋, right)

Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iseyo of Owarichô

NOTE: These prints may be considered to be a series of single sheets or arranged as a triptych

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 Ichicawa Ebizô V as Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) praying

Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙)

Date: 11^th month of 1847

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iseyo of Owarichô

NOTE: The website of the Tokyo Metropolitan Library dates this diptych as being from the 4^th month of 1847, without specifying the play.

Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the boatman (船人)

Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image.

Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Kaminari (かみ鳴)

Play: Shiki utsushi tosae no futsutsuka (四季写士佐画拙)

Date: 11^th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image.

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

Theater: Kawasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensabur

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: 11^th month of 1847

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

“Robinson” refers to series number in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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