Actor triptychs

1848, Part VI

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Yuasa Magoshichi (湯浅孫七, left), Bandô Shuka I as Magoshichi’s wife Oyone (孫七女房およね, center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tateba Taheiji (立場太平冶, right)

Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語)

Date: 8^th month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwashiro Takita (岩代瀧太) and Sawamura Gennosuke II as Kyoto Masuya Tokuemon (京桝屋徳右エ門)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Komazawa Jirozaemon (駒沢治郎左エ門) and Bandô Shuka I as the blind Asagao (朝かほ)

Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Miyagi Asojirô who was later known as Komazawa Jirôzaemon (宮木阿曽次郎 後ニ駒沢治良左エ門, left) and Bandô Shuka I as Akizuki Yuminosuke’s daughter Miyuki Gonigozume Onna Asakaho (秋月弓之助娘深雪 後ニ瞽女朝かほ)

Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Text on right sheet: The koto song, the morning glory, the morning glory between the dewdrops, and the dullness of the shade, makes me feel sorry for the purple flower of the strawberry (琴うた, 朝顔, 露のひぬ間の, 朝がほにてらす, 日かげの, つれなさに, あわれひと, むらさめのはら／＼と, ふれかし)

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above design without actors’ names.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state without a colored ground.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Miyagi Asojirô (宮木阿曽次郎), Matsumoto Kunigorô as Matsukuni Gorôji (松国五郎次), and an unidentified actor as Saka Azuma Daiji (坂あづま大次)

Right sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Miyuki (みゆき) and Osagawa Tsuneyo IV as mother Otsune (母おつね)

Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as the blind female minstrel Chiku-no-tsu (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Miyagi Asojirô (centre), and Bandô Shuka I as Miyuki (right)

Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as the blind female minstrel Zatô Takenoichi　

Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語)

Date: 8^th month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kyôji

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Lord Fujiizumi Tachibana (橘ノ藤泉卿) and Bandô Shûka I as Princess Miyuki (御幸 姫)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô as Asojirô (阿曽次郎)

Play: Shin kyoku kochô no yume (新曲胡蝶夢)

Date: 8^th month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Niki Tamonnosuke (仁木多門之助, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Yakko Sodesuke who is actually Ôtaka Tonomo (奴袖助実は大高主殿, center), and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Innami Kazuma (印南数馬, right)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Yakko Sodesuke who is actually Ôtaka Tonomo (奴袖助実は大高主殿, left), Iwai Kumesaburô III as Innami Kazuma (印南数馬, center) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Niki Tamonnosuke (仁木多門之助, right)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Aizô I as the koshimoto (lady in waiting) Oai (or Owai) (腰元おあい) and Arashi Jitohachi III as the nakama (servant) Kazao Otohachi (中間風尾戸八)

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Innami Kazuma (印南数馬), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Yakko Sodesuke who is actually Ôtaka Tonomo (奴袖助 実ハ大高主殿)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Oriemon’s wife Umenoi (折右衛門妻梅の井, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Takagi Oriemon (高木折右衛門, right)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kyôji

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the servant Shirasaka Jimpei (若党白坂甚平) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as In’nami Katsuma (印南数馬, far left)

Right sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as the courtesan Shirabyoshi Tsukasa (白拍子司) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Yakko Sodesuke (奴袖助)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the servant (wakato) Shirasaka Jimpei (若徒白坂甚平, in back) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (大高主殿, seated on bench)

Center sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Shirabyôshi Tsukasa (白拍子司)

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as In’nami Katsuma (印南数馬)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Another state of a sheet from the above diptych

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (大高主殿, left) and Onoe Kikujirô II as the courtesan Shirabyoshi Tsukasa (白拍子司, right)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (大高主殿, left) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Yokoyama Daizô (横山大蔵, right)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (大高主殿) and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as the fisherman (ryôshi) Ganzô (猟師鴈蔵)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tôseidô

NOTE: Two different states of the same design, with the one on the right being a little bloodier

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (大高主殿) and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as the fisherman (ryôshi) Ganzô (猟師鴈蔵)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kyôji

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Tsuruzô I as the fisherman (ryôshi) Ganzo (猟師鴈蔵) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Yokoyama Daizô (横山大蔵)

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (大高主殿)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actor on platform, Onoe Kikujirô II as the courtesan Shirabyoshi Tsukasa (白拍子司), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Shirasaka Jimpei (白坂甚平, kneeling male)

Right sheet: Unidentified actor on platform, Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôtaka Tonomo (大高主殿, in yellow) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Innami Kazuma (印南数馬, young male)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録)

Date: 8^th month of 1848

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the nôshi (noh master) Kiritake Budayû who is actually Ôtaka Tonomo (能師霧竹武太夫実ハ大高主殿)

Center sheet: Seki Hanasuke IV as Tarô Kaja Unasuke (太郎冠者羽名助), Iwai Kumesaburô III as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) who is actually Innami Kazuma (能ワキシ粂若数馬実ハ印南数馬), and Ichikawa Shirozô II as Tarô Kaja Uezô (太郎冠者羽エ蔵

Right sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Shirabyôshi Tsukasa (能ワキシ白拍子司, standing) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Ogi Iemon who is actually Shirosaka Jinpei (能ワキシ荻伊右衛門実ハ白坂甚平)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録), the Imayô mochizuki (今様望月) dance interlude

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

NOTE: Imayô mochizuki is a dance drama version of the noh play Mochizuki which was incorporated, as a dance interlude, into the kabuki play Takagi Oriemon budo jitsu roku.

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as

(能師霧竹武太夫 実ハ大高主殿)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Ogi Iemon who is actually Shirosaka Jinpei (能ワキシ萩伊右衛門 実ハ白坂甚平)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録), the Imayô mochizuki (今様望月) dance interlude

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Main actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV as nôshi (noh master) Kiritake Budayû who is actually Ôtaka Tonomo (能師霧竹武太夫 実ハ大高主殿, main figure),

Inset busts: Iwai Kumesaburô III as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Kumetaka who is actually In’nami Kazuma (能のワキシ 実ハ印南数馬, left), Ichikawa Kuzô II as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Ogi Iemon who is actually Shirasaka Jimpei (実ハ白坂甚平, center), and Onoe Kikujirô II as the shirabyôshi dancer Tsukasa (白拍子司, right)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録), the Imayô mochizuki (今様望月) dance interlude

Date: 8^th month of 1848

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the nôshi (noh master) Kiritake Budayû who is actually Ôtaka Tonomo (能師霧竹武太夫 実ハ大高主殿)

Center sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Shirabyoshi Tsukasa : Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the nôshi (noh master) Kiritake Budayû who is actually Ôtaka Tonomo (能師霧竹武太夫 実ハ大高主殿)

Center sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Shirabyoshi Tsukasa (白拍子司)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Hagi Iemon who is actually Shirasaka Jimpei (能ワキシ萩伊右衛門 実ハ白坂甚平) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Kumewaka Kazuma who is actually In’nami Kazuma (能ワキシ粂若数馬 実ハ印南数馬)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録), the Imayô mochizuki (今様望月) dance interlude

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (白拍子司)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Hagi Iemon who is actually Shirasaka Jimpei (能ワキシ萩伊右衛門 実ハ白坂甚平) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as the nôwakishi (noh supporting actor) Kumewaka Kazuma who is actually In’nami Kazuma (能ワキシ粂若数馬 実ハ印南数馬)

Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録), the Imayô mochizuki (今様望月) dance interlude

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tachiba no Taheiji (太平次)

Right sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as tonya ninsoku Magoshichi (孫七), and Bandô Shuka I as Magoshichi nyobo Oyone (およね)

Play: Yume monogatari (夢物語)

Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

NOTE: The object in the left-upper corner is a group of straw sandals (waraji, 草鞋) bound together.

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