Actor triptychs

1848, Part I

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Soga Gorô (曽我五郎時宗) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Soga Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成)

Center sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kudô Saemon (工藤左衛門祐経)

Right sheet: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Oiso no Tora (大磯ノとら) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Omi Kotota (近江小藤太成家)

Play: Hatsuharu no on-kotobuki Soga (初春の御寿そが or 初春寿曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above triptych.

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Obou Rokusa (六三, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kio Kozo Shichirosuke (鬼王小僧七郎之助, center), and Bandô Shûka I as Kewaizaka no Kashiku (かしく, right)

Play: Hatsuharu no on-kotobuki Soga (初春の御寿そが or 初春寿曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this triptych.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Soga Gorô (曽我五郎時宗) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Soga Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成)

Right sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kudo Saemon (工藤祐経) and Bandô Shuka I as Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎)

Play: Hatsuharu no on-kotobuki Soga (初春の御寿そが or 初春寿曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Komazô IV (left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII (center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (right)

Play: Hatsuharu no on-kotobuki Soga (初春の御寿そが or 初春寿曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi

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

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

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tsurukameya Mansaku (鶴亀屋万作)

Play: Iro shina o kaete ken zake (色品替拳酒)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Chû (phonetic reading of 忠)

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tsurukameya Mansaku (鶴亀屋万作, left), Seki Sanjûrô III as Daihi no Jiroku (大悲の慈六, center), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Senju no Mitehachi (千手乃みて八, right)

Play: Iro shina o kaete ken zake (色品替拳酒)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kobayashi Tajirô

NOTE: Nakamura Utaemon IV, Seki Sanjûrô III, and Ichikawa Kuzô II are dancing as a pine, a crane, and a turtle, respectively.

Title of triptych: Gestures of Comical Roles in Kabuki Plays (道外見ぶりけん, Dôke miburi ken)

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tsurukameya Mansaku (left), Seki Sanjûrô III as Daihi no Jiroku (center), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Senju no Mitehachi (right)

Play: Iro shina o kaete ken zake (色品替拳酒)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

NOTE: Nakamura Utaemon IV, Seki Sanjûrô III, and Ichikawa Kuzô II are dancing as a pine, a crane, and a turtle, respectively.

Title of triptych: Tsurigitsune wana no kangiku (Trapping the White Fox)

Actors: Left sheet: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Soga no Gorô (五郎時宗, foreground) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Soga Jûrô Sukinari (小林屋鶴吉)

Center sheet: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Kudô Saemon Suketsune (工藤祐経)

Right sheet: Onoe Baiko IV as Asahidayû (あさひ太夫)

Play: Kagami gaike omokage Soga (吉例曽我訥子玉)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Kurofune Chûemon (黒船忠右衛門, left), Onoe Baiko IV as Yakko no Koman (奴の小万, center), and an unidentified actor as Gokumon Shôbei (獄門庄兵衛, right)

Play: Kagami gaike omokage Soga (吉例曽我訥子玉)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Komatsuya Sôshichi (小松屋宗七, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kezoni Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門, center), and Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Hakata Kojorô (博多 小女郎, right)

Play: Mimasu Dokko Hakata no Uchikake (三升独鈷博多襠)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Left sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as onzoshi Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸, standing) and Nakamura Kanemon I in unidentified role

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kumasaka Chôhan (熊坂張範) and Nakamura Sagisuke (中村 鷺助 I) as Idaten no Osakabe (韋駄天の刑部)

Play: Tsuki no ume megumi no Kagekiyo (月梅摂景清)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Suruga-ya Sukujirô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the bandit monk Kumasaka Chôhan (left), Ichikawa Kuzô II as Kichiji (center), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Ushiwakamaru (right)

Play: Tsuki no ume megumi no Kagekiyo (月梅摂景清)

Date: 1^st month of 1848

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Shinshichi III as 松番匠新七郎 実ハ天野四郎常長 (standing) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as 室の津肝煎佐次太夫

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the blind Aku Shichibei Kagekiyo (悪 七兵衛 景清 後ニ日向勾当) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kagekiyo’s daughter Hitomaru (景清 娘 人丸)

Play: Tsuki no ume megumi no Kagekiyo (月梅摂景清)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ume no Yoshibei (由兵衛, left), Iwai Kumesaburô III as detsuchi Chokichi (でつち長吉, center), and Seki Sanjûrô III as Genbei Horino Genbei (源兵衛, right)

Play: Tsumagasane Ume no Yoshibei (褄重梅由兵衛)

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Title: The Six Poetic Immortals (Rokkasen, 六歌仙)

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the monk Kisen (喜撰法師), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Sôjô Henjô (僧正遍正), Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Ôtomo Kuronushi (大伴黒主), Bandô Shûka I as Ono no Komachi (小野小町), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Arihara Narihira (在原業平), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Fumiya Yasuhide (文屋康秀)

Play: Yanagi no itoyû sho karakuri (柳糸遊所操)

Theater: Ichimura

Date: 1^st month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Cincinnati Art Museum: Gift of Henrietta Haller, 1905.343.16

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