Actor triptychs
1849, Part II
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正, left),
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Arajishi
Otokonosuke (荒獅〻男之助, center), and
Onoe Kikujirô II as tsubone
Masaoka (乳母政岡, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場 or 伊達競阿国歌舞妓) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state of the above design with all three faces recarved for the production of
Date Kurabe Uwasa no Sayaate in the 1st month of 1851.
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Nikki Danjô
Naonori (仁木弾正直則) Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場 or 伊達競阿国歌舞妓) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Okaei NOTE: The woodblocks for this print were reused for the
production of Date zensei sakura
no iromaku in the 4th month of
1849. Nikki
Danjô Naonori’s face and the mon on his clothing were recarved:
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Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Yonehei I as Chadô Chôsai
(茶道蝶斎) Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ashikaga
Yorikane (よりかね, male) and Onoe Kikujirô II as the courtesan Miuraya Takao (高尾) Right sheet: Otani Tomomatsu I as Tomokichi of
the Miuraya (三浦屋倅友吉) Play: Date
kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Fujioka-ya Keijirô |
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Actors: Left
sheet: Ichikawa Shinsha
I as Okinoi (沖の井) Center sheet: Ichikawa Otokichi (音吉) as Tsuruchiyo (鶴きよ), Onoe Kikujirô II as nurse Masaoka (政岡), Ichikawa Saizaburô (才三郎) as Senmatsu (千松) Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as tsubone Yashio (八汐) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kinkadô
Konishi |
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Actors: Ichikawa Otokichi (音吉) as Tsuruchiyo
(つる喜代君, right),
Ichikawa Saizaburô (才三郎, right) as Senmatsu (音吉 千松, center), and
Onoe Kikujirô II as nurse Masaoka (才三郎 政岡, left) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: No seal NOTE: Three
different states are shown. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Onoe Kikujirô II as nurse Masaoka (政岡) Right sheet: Ichikawa Saizaburô (才三郎, right) as Senmatsu (千松, in black) reaching a box of poisoned
sweets, and Ichikawa Otokichi (音吉) as Tsuruchiyo (つる喜代君, upper right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Onoe Kikujirô II as nurse Masaoka (政岡) and Ichikawa Otokichi (音吉) as Tsuruchiyo
(つる喜代, child) Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yashio (八汐) stabbing young Ichikawa Saizaburô (才三郎) as Senmatsu (千松) Right sheet: Otani Tomoemon as Sakae Gozen (栄御ぜん) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô NOTE: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki is based on the disputed succession of the Date Clan. The
loyal nursemaid Masaoka has been charged with protecting young Tsuruchiyo,
the heir to the clan, who is in danger of being poisoned. Masaoka has kept
him in private quarters, asking her own son, Senmatsu, to taste his food.
When Senmatsu becomes ill after eating poisoned
sweets offered by Yashio, she stabs him to hide her plot, claiming he must
pay for his rude behavior. At left, the stoic Masaoka must watch as her own son
is murdered, shielding the young nobleman behind her arm. |
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Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Kasane (かさね, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Kinugawa
Yoemon (木下川与右衛門, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date:
3rd month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater:
Kawarasaki Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô |
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Actors: Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII in three
different roles: Nikki Naonori (仁木直則, left), Arajishi Otokonosuke in aragoto make-up
(荒獅子男之助, center), and Hosogawa Katsumoto (細川勝元, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for these two
sheets from another state of the above triptych |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the magician Nikki Danjô
(仁木弾正, left) and
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII also as Otokonosuke
(right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô NOTE: There may be
a third sheet showing the giant rat into which Nikki Danjô
transforms himself |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the magician Nikki
Danjô Naonori (仁木弾正直則, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII also as “Wild Lion” Otokonosuke (荒獅々男之助, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Minato-ya
Kohei |
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Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as the courtesan Miuraya
Takao (高尾, left) and
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as [Ashikaga] Sakingo Yorikane (左金吾頼兼, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Tsujioka-ya
Bunsuke I am grateful
to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
simplified state without black bokashi on top or Kuniyoshi’s kiri
seal. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII
as Ashikaga Yorikane (よりかね, left) and Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII also as Kinugawa Tanizô
(絹川谷蔵, right) Play:
Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date:
3rd month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater:
Kawarasaki Publisher:
No seal I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ashikaga Yorikane (頼兼, left), Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII also as Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵, center), and Onoe Kikujirô II as Takao (高尾, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd month of 1849 (censors Fuku and
Muramatsu) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the tôfu seller Tôfuya no Sabu (とうふや三ぶ) Center sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Mameta (まめ太) and Onoe Kikujirô II as
Kasane (かさね) Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as
Ashikaga Yorikane (足利頼兼) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Mikawa-ya Rihei NOTE: The left-hand sheet, which has no
publisher’s seal, is the same as in the following triptych. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the tôfu seller Tôfuya no Sabu (とうふや三ぶ) Center sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as
Kasane (かさね) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Mameta (まめ太) Right sheet: Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as Kinugawa Tanizô
(絹川谷蔵) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Shimizu with
seal reading “Shimizu han” (清水板) I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate
state. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as
Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵) Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô
IV as Tofuya Sabu (とうふや三ぶ, male role)
and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kasane (female role) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô |
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Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Kasane (かさね, left) and Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as
Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these sheets
from alternate states of the above diptych.
Note that Kuniyoshi’s kiri seal is on some of the prints. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as
[Ashikaga] Sakingo Yorikane
(左金吾頼兼, left), Onoe Kikujirô II as the
courtesan Takao (高尾, center), and Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as
Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date:
3rd month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater:
Kawarasaki Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan for information about this
triptych. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Otani Tomomatsu I as yakko Ukiyo
Tohei (奴浮世戸平) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Takarai Kikaku jitsuha (actually)
Dote no Dotetsu (宝井其角 実ハ土手の道哲) Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the poet
master (haikaishi) Donsui (俳諧師 呑酔) and the poet master (haikaishi) 俳諧師 ?好 Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場 or 伊達競阿国歌舞妓) Date: 3rd month of 1849 (censors Mera and
Murata) Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Minato-ya Kohe I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and
information. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII in eight different roles Roles: Left sheet
clockwise from top right: Ashikaga Yorikane (with
fan), Musashi-bô Benkei, Kinugawa Tanizô, and Hosokawa Katsumoto Right sheet clockwise from top left: Dote Dôtetsu,
Lady Yashio, Arajishi Otokonosuke
(in aragoto make-up), and Nikki Danjô. Benkei is
from Kanjinchô,
and all the other roles are from Date kurabe Okuni kabuki Plays: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (Disfigured Kasane) and Kanjinchô (The Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Both plays at
the Kawarasaki Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei NOTE: The figure in the left lower corner is wearing a
stage costume with a design of a sickle (kama),
a circle (wa), and the hiragana
character for nu (ぬ), spelling kamawanu (I don’t give a damn), a term made
popular by Ichikawa Danjûrô VII. Kanjinchô was performed as an intermission piece on the
same program as Date kurabe Okuni kabuki. |
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I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this
alternate state of the above design. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Nikki Bennosuke
(仁木 弁之助, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the
ghost of the Minister of the Left, Michihira (左大臣道平の霊, right) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Horimasa NOTE: The Minister
of the Left (sadaijin, 左大臣) was a high
government official during the late Nara and Heian periods. Bennosuke is a
name Nikki Danjô uses ealier in the play. |
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Additional states of the right sheet from the above diptych |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Otani Tomomatsu I as Yakko Tohei
(奴戸平), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Takarai Kikaku who is in reality Dôtetsu
(宝井其角 実ハ道鉄), and Ichikawa Yonehei I possibly as
Yanagawa Mokuan (柳川木あん) Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sakingo Yorikane (左金吾頼兼) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Takao (高尾, female role) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hosagawa
Katsumoto (細川勝元, left), Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Izutsu
Gekizaemon (井筒外記左衛門, center) and
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (right) as Nikki Danjô Naonori (仁木弾正直則) Play: Date kurabe
Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry
and Okuni Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Enomoto Kichibei I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togashi no Saemon (富樫左衛門), Nakamura Shibajaku I as Hitachibô Kaison
(常陸坊海尊), Ichikawa Enzaburô as Surugaya no Jirô (駿河の次), and an
unidentified actor as 片岡八郎 Kataoka Hachirô (片岡八郎) Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) Right sheet: Bandô Takesaburô
I as Jô (Lord) Yoshitsune
(判官よし経), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togashi no Suke (富樫之介). Ôtani Tomoemon IV the footsoldier (sotsuko) Hyôdô, Asao Tamejûrô IV as Sotsuko Gondô (卒子兵藤), and Seki Utasuke as Sotsuko Bandô (同[卒子]伴藤) Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The
Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi Text on center sheet: 勧進のてう舞ふふりはもたぬとも 八代目三升 NOTE: This triptych
is an altered reissued of a triptych from for the production of Kanjinchô in
the 3rd month of 1840. I am
grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
Kanjinchô was performed as the shosa dance drama on the program of Date kurabe okuni kabuki. |
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Actors: Bandô Takesaburô I as Minamoto
no Yoshitsune (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Musashi-bo Benkei (center), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togashi Saemon
(right) Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The
Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke Text on center sheet: 打杖に うたれし 杖の しのばれて 関のあなたの 親ハしたはし 梅屋 |
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Triptych title: Kanjinchô (勧進帳) Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Shibajaku I as Kamei Rokurô
(亀井六郎) and Bandô Takesaburô I as Minamoto
Yoshitsune (源義経) disguised as
a servant Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as
Musashi-bo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) reading the
subscription list Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門) Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The
Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei Text: Left sheet: 勧進帳 夫倩見推者蒙霞之雲 晴真如月爰明成抑人皇 四十二代聖主聖武皇帝 天下泰平五穀成就 万民化楽 現当二世之 祈願而南都 東大寺丈六之 蘆舎那仏 勅建仏道之積 徳成広大歟万民 傾臍合掌尊信尤深然 治☆之兵火焼而上苦 叡慮下失望緒天忽怒 Center sheet: 今将弘 勅而再建之企急也 普万人勧進而仏陀之利生増 益功徳多端成乎及国中弘通 之内 勅慎而可仰他力輩 多少不論施人加上者梵天 帝釈下界之神明日本八百 万之神慮叶諸仏之納受豈 中哉天下和順五穀成就武 運長久家内安全子孫 繁茂猶不可有疑 慎而謹上再拝 羽黒山 修験海伝 敬白
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these sheets
from alternate state(s). |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashi-bo
Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The
Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Takesaburô I as Minamoto
no Yoshitsune (源義経) Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as
Musashi-bo Benkei (武藏坊辨慶) Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門) Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The
Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô |
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Triptych title: Kanjinchô (勧進帳) Actors: Bandô Takesaburô I as Minamoto Yoshitsune
crouching in the guise of servant (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Musashi-bo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶, center), and
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togashi no Saemon (富樫の左衛門, right) Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The
Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Mori-ya Jihei Text: Left sheet: チヽブ 千証庵小松 やさしくも 雨にうたるゝ 若竹の のびん千尋の 根さし見えけり Center sheet: 打続く ひさしき親に あふ坂の 関を嬉しく 越る弁慶 梅屋 Right sheet: おしかへす 木戸のとがしの いさましく 大入りびらに ととむる客僧 梅屋 I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Tomosa II as Tatsuya[sha]
Hime (辰夜[叉]姫, female role), Kataoka Ichizô I as Akaimaru (赤井丸, male role) Center sheet: Arashi Rikan IV as Bijômaru (美女丸) Right sheet: Matsumoto Kôshirô V as Iga Jutarô (伊賀寿太郎) Play: Shitennôji
garan kagami (四天王寺伽藍鑑, The Monastic Mirror at the Temple of the Four Guardian Kings) Date: 3rd month of 1849 (censors Hama and
Magome) Theater: Naka (in Osaka) Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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