Actor triptychs

1848, Part VII

Actors: Left sheet: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Ishidome Busuke (柘榴武助)and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Karaki Masaemon (唐木政右衛門)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Sawai Matagorô (沢井股五郎) and an unidentified actor as Minosuke (巳之助)

Play: Igagoe Yomikiri kôshaku (伊賀越読切講釈)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan and Horst Graebner for information about this diptych.

Actors: Left sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Nimochi Heisaku (荷持平作) and Onoe Baikô IV as Heisaku’s daughter (musume) Oyone (娘およね)

Right sheet: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Gofukuya Jûbei (呉服屋十兵衛)

Play: Igagoe Yomikiri kôshaku (伊賀越読切講訳)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Sanoya Kihei 

Cincinnati Art Museum: Gift of Henrietta Haller, 1905.343.10-11. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this sheet from another state of the above diptych.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Yaegiri (八重桐)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tabakoya Genshichi (たばこや 源七 実は坂田蔵人) and actor Kasuke (歌助) as the lady’s maid Outa (こし元 おうた) 　

Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷仁右衛門, left) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Oiwa and the ghost of Kohei

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷仁右衛門) and Nakamura Kantarô I as Akiyama Chôbei (秋山長兵衛)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oiwa’s ghost (お岩ぼうこん)

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-iya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Satô Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂七) and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Naosuke Gonbei (直助権兵衛)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷仁右衛門) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as his servant Kohai nailed on a door

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Sato Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂七)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷伊右衛門) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oiwa’s ghost

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷仁右衛門) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as his servant Kohai nailed on a door

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

I am grateful to Marc Devriese for this image

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷伊右工門)

Right sheet: Seki Utasuke II (関 哥助) as Takuetsu (宅悦) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Tamiya Iemon’s wife (nyôbô) Oiwa (伊右衛門女房お岩)

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

NOTE: Tamiya Iemon attempts to kill his wife, Oiwa, by poisoning her, but the poison instead disfigures her. In an attempt to make herself presentable, she combs her hair, but the hair comes out in clumps, dripping blood onto the floor. When she finally sees her horrible face in the mirror, she dies and returns as a ghost to haunt him. I am grateful to Michel Ouellet for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Hanagasumi no Ohide (花売のおひで, female role), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as 鶴橘の亀 (standing), and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Naosuke Gonbei (直助権兵衛, inset)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷仁右衛門, standing) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Sato Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂七, sitting)

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ukiyo Matahei (浮世又平), Onoe Shinshichi III as Tosa Shurisuke (修理之助), and Onoe Kikujirô II as nyôbo Otoku (女房おとく)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Hirogorô I as the servant Ôhiro (下女於飛呂) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Tosa Shôkan (土佐将監)

Play: Keisei Hangonkô (けいせい反魂香)

Date: 10^th month of 1848

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tarô Otaku Mitsukuni (大宅太郎光国, left), Bandô Shûka I as the magician Takiyasha hime (center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Shôgun tarô Yoshikado (将軍太郎良門, right)

Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門)

Date: 11^th month of 1848

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Unidentified actor as Mikuriya Rokurô Kimitsuna (御厨六郎公綱, left), Onoe Kikujirô II as Kikyô no Mae (桔梗の前, center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Shôgun tarô Yoshikado (将軍 太郎 良門, right)

Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Karawazaki

Publisher: Noda Shichibei

The above design was slightly modified and reused for another, as yet unidentified, production. The face of the actor in the role of Shôgun Tarô Yoshikado was recarved. The seal is for the publisher Daikoku-ya Heikichi, and the censors are Hama and Magome, indicating a date of 1849-1852.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji as the dwarf Choko no Chokobei (一寸ぼしちょこのちょこ平) and Onoe Kikujirô II as daughter (musume) Omatsu, actually Kikyô no Mae (娘おまつ　実ハ桔梗の前 二代目尾上菊次郎)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Shôgun tarô Yoshikado (将軍太郎良門)

Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ningoyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Shôgun tarô Yoshikado (将軍太郎良門)

Right sheet: Unidentified actors as Mikuriya Rokurô Kimitsuna (御厨六郎公綱) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kikyô no Mae (桔梗の前)

Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ki (phonetic reading of キ)

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Rikan III as Mita Gengo Hirotsuna (三田源廣綱)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Shôgun tarô Yoshikado (将軍太郎良門, top) and Otani Tomoemon IV as Tarô Mitsukuni (大宅太郎光国, bottom)

Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iseyo of Owarichô

I am grateful to Mustafa Kocabasi for this image and to Lucienne Parkan for information about the image.

Actors: Kawarasaki Chôjûrô III as Koshô Shanamaru (小性舎那丸), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII in an unidentified role, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Choko no Chokobei hei Mamenari (ちょこの ちょこのちょこ平 豆成 実は 土くものせい)

Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Onoe Baiko IV as Masaoka (政岡, left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as tsubone Iwafuji (局岩ふ, right)

Play: Date Zensei Sakura no Iromaku (伊達旭盛桜幕)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Igami no Gonda (いがみの権太, left), Bandô Shuka I as Gonda imoto Osato (ごん太妹お里, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as shume Kokingo Takesato (主馬小金吾, right)

Play: Goban Tadanobu Yuki no Kuroshiro (碁盤忠信雪黒白, The Black and White Snow of Tadanobu’s Go Board)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

NOTE: “Black and white snow” refers to the flying black and white stones of Tadanobu’s final fight, using a go board as a weapon.

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Osato (於さと) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Igami no Gonda (ごん太)

Right sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kokingo (小金吾)

Play: Goban Tadanobu Yuki no Kuroshiro (碁盤忠信雪黒白, The Black and White Snow of Tadanobu’s Go Board)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for identifying this image.

The print on the right has different colors and lacks Kuniyoshi’s seal, as well as the publisher’s seal. The face of the actor in the role of Gonta has also been changed, for use with a different production and a different cast.

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as shume Kokingo Takesato (主馬小金吾, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Igami no Gonda (いがみ の 権太, center), and Nakamura Baika II as Gonta’s wife Kosen (right)

Play: Goban Tadanobu Yuki no Kuroshiro (碁盤忠信雪黒白, The Black and White Snow of Tadanobu’s Go Board)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

NOTE: The right sheet of this triptych was reused, and partially recut, from the performance of Zôha Tsukushi no iezuto in the 7^th month of 1848.

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Igami no Gonda (いがみの権太) and Bandô Shuka I as Gonda’s sister (imoto) Osato (妹おさと)

Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Kajiwara Heiji Kagetaka (梶原平次景高) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Yazaemon (弥左衛門, kneeling in front)

Play: Goban Tadanobu Yuki no Kuroshiro (碁盤忠信雪黒白, The Black and White Snow of Tadanobu’s Go Board)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Magoemon of Ninokuchi Village (Ninokuchi mura Magoemon, 二ノ口村孫右衛門, left), Onoe Baikô IV as Umegawa of the Tsuchiya (つち屋梅川, center), and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Kameya Chûbei (亀屋忠兵衛, right)

Play: Kin no Zai Chôja no Yumitori (金幣長者将)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Te (phonetic reading of て)

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Umegawa (梅川, left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Chûbei (忠兵衛, right)

Play: Kin no Zai Chôja no Yumitori (金幣長者将)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and to Lucienne Parkan for the above information.

Actors: Nakamura Baika II (中村 梅花) as Kahoru (かほる), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as 吉田や喜三太, Nakamura Utaemon IV as Benkei (弁けい), Seki Sanjûrô III as Hatchôtsubute Kiheiji (八丁つぶて喜平次), Nakamura Gennosuke II as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源のよしつね), and Bandô Shuka I as Shizuka Gozen (しづか御前)

Play: Na ni Tachibana Hana Benkei (名橘花弁慶)

Date: 11^th month of 1848

Theater: Morita

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yamauba (山うば) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Kaidômaru (怪童丸) with Bandô Hikosaburô IV inset

Play: Takigi o yukima no Ichikawa (薪荷雪間の市川)

Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

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