Actor triptychs
1849, Part I
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Shoki Shinsuke (庻木申助, left) and Bandô
Shûka I as Shinsuke’s wife (nyôbô)
Omoto (申介女房おもと, right)
holding up a painting of Shôki Play:
Aoto Banashi (青砥調) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Okaei |
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Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Izayoi (十六夜, left) and
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tsukasaburô
(司三郎, right) Play:
Aoto Banashi (青砥調) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi |
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Shoki Shinsuke (庻木申助, left) and Bandô Shuka I as Shinsuke’s wife (nyôbô)
Omoto (申介女房おもと, right) Play:
Aoto Banashi (青砥調) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: No seal |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
simplified state. |
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Triptych title: Hojo Clan Vassal, Judge Aoto Saemon Fujitsuna, Interrogates the
Rights and Wrongs of the People (北条家の臣青砥左エ門藤綱門註所にて民の邪正を糺圖) Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Sagisake as Osame
(おさめ), Nakamura Kan’emon I as Wakatô (若党市), Nakayama Bungorô II as Azadaira (あざ平), and
unidentified actor as Tsuya no Suke (つ屋の助) Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as
Aoto Saemon Fujitsuna (青砥左エ門藤綱, top center),
Nakamura Gennosuke II as Keikû
(景空), and Ichimura Uzaemon
XII as Tsukasaburô (司三郎) Right Sheet: Bandô Shuka I as the
daughter (musume) Izayoi (娘十六夜), Seki Sanjûrô Play:
Aoto Banashi (青砥調) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state of the above triptych. |
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Aoto Saemon
Fujitsuna (青砥左衛門藤綱) Play:
Aoto Banashi (青砥調) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô |
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Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Izayoi (十六夜, left) and
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tsukasaburô (司三郎, right) Play:
Aoto Banashi (青砥調) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei I am grateful to Robert Pryor and Lucienne Parkan
for these two sheets. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yari no Gonza (鎗の権三, left) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Komurasaki who is actually Shirai
Gonpachi (小紫実ハ白井権八, right) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga
no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st month of 1849 (censors
Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei NOTE: Kuniyoshi’s
signature and seal on Komurasaki’s kimono. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the
above diptych. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Komurasaki who is actually Shirai Gonpachi (小紫実ハ白井権八, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Sasano Gonza (笹野権三, right) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date:
1st month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater:
Kawarasaki Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Gonza (笹野権三) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no
kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台, Suzugamori
scene at the execution ground) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Gonza (笹野権三, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as doctor
Teranishi Kanshin (医者 寺西 閑心, right) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Yaeume (八重梅, left), Ichikawa Kodanji
IV as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八, center), and
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sasano Gonza (笹野権三, right) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Akane Tabiya Hanshichi
(茜たび屋半七, left), Onoe Kikujirô II as Mikazuki no Osayo
who later becomes Sankatsu (三日月のおさよ 後二三かつ, center), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Akane
Tabiya Chokuro (茜足袋屋長九郎, right) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Enkakudô |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Shirai Gonpachi
(白井権八) standing over
Onoe Kikujirô II as Sukedayu’s
daughter (musume) Yaeume
(助太夫娘八重梅), and Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Akane Tabiya Hanshichi
(茜たびや半七, inset) Center sheet: Bando Hikosabûrô IV as the outcast (hinin) Yoime no Nisuke (非人宵張の仁助) with the
spear over his right shoulder and a purse in his mouth and Onoe Kikujirô II as Sankatsu (三か津, inset) Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as
Sasano Gonza (笹野権三) holding a
spear with a giant centipede at the end of it and Bandô
Hikosaburô IV as Akane Tabiya Chokuro
(茜たびや長九郎, inset) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and
information. |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Akane Tabiya Hanshichi (茜たび屋半七, left) Onoe Kikujirô II
as Sankatsu (三かつ, right) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô NOTE:
The actor’s names are written in ink on the face of these prints. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this
image and to Lucienne Parkan for information about
the diptych. |
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Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as (茜たび屋半七, standing), Onoe Kikujirô II as Sankatsu (三かつ), and Ôtani Tomoemon
IV as Imaichi Zen’emon (今市善右エ門, inset) Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st month of 1849
(censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi I am
grateful to Maximilian Bürger for this image. |
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Diptych title: Sangokuken (三国けん) Actors:
Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I
as Ohide from the town of Ôiso (Ôiso
Nakanocho Ohide, 大磯中の丁お秀, female) and Ichimura Uzaemon
XII as the roofing boss (tobigashira) Kakichi (鳶の頭嘉吉) Right sheet: Nakamura
Utaemon IV as the fortuneteller (uranaisha) Sangokuken (駒形の占者三国軒) Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken
Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声) Date:
1st month of 1849 (censors Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: The diptych title, Sangokuken,
translates as “Three Kingdoms Fist”, a hand game similar to
rock-paper-scissors. The text on the
gate reads Instruction in the performing arts (Shogei
shian no uchi, 諸芸指安の内). |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Seki Sanjûrô Center sheet: Bandô Shûka
I as Ohide of Kewaizaka (female) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Aoto Fujitsuna Right sheet: Bandô Shûka
I as Oiso no Otama (大磯のお玉), and an actor
in an unidentified male role Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken
Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Okaei |
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Text: Learning everything about kemari (Kemari e mon
zukushi no manabi, けまりえもんなづくしのまなび) Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Oiso Naka no Cho Ohide (大磯中の丁お秀, female), Seki
Sanjûrô Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken
Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock, 新規一拳酉魁声) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Iwai Kumesaburô Right sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左エ門伝吉, standing) and
Sawamura Sôjûrô V as gejo
Osugi (下女お杉) Play: Sono mukashi koi
no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi |
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I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this less
labor-intensive state of the above design. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門伝吉, left) and
Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Sono mukashi koi
no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state of the above diptych. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Sôjûrô V as gejo
Osugi (下女お杉) and Iwai Kumesaburô Right sheet: Onoe Baiko IV as Kosho Kichizo
(小性吉三) Play: Sono mukashi koi
no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hams and Magome) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Iwai Kumesaburô Right sheet: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Nitta
Shiro Tadatsune (仁田四郎忠常) and Matsumoto
Kinshô I as Goshaku Somegorô (五尺染五郎) Play: Sono mukashi koi
no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Kiyoimidzu-ya Naojirô |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Chôjûrô V as priest Shunkan
(俊寛僧都, large figure)
and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Tanzaemon
Motoyasu (small figure) Center sheet: Matsumoto Kinshô I as Senô Tarô Kaneyasu
(瀬ノ尾太郎兼康) Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô Chidori of Satasumagata (薩摩潟ノ千鳥) Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Fujioka-ya Keijiriô |
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Actors: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as priest Shunkan (俊寛僧都, left),
Matsumoto Kinshô I as Senô
Tarô (瀬尾太郎, center), and
Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Okaei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Chidori (ちどり, left) and
Sawamura Chôjûrô V as priest Shunkan
(俊寛僧都, right) Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: Copies of
this diptych exist with the seals of the censors, Hama and Magome, printed backwards ( |
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Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Shinsuke’s
wife (nyôbô) Omoto (申助 女房 おもと, left),
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Shoki
Shinsuke (庻木申助, center), and
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tomiya Jinbei (富屋甚兵衛, right) Play: Yoru no tsuru omoi no yukidoke (夜鶴思雪解) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Enkakudô |
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Shoki Shinsuke (庻木申介, left), Bandô Shûka I as Shinsuke’s
wife (nyôbô) Omoto (center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Tomiya Jinbei (富屋甚兵衛, right) Play: Yoru no tsuru omoi no yukidoke (夜鶴思雪解) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei |
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