Actor triptychs

1849, Part IV

 

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as the wet nurse Otsuji (うばお辻)

Center sheet: Onoe Baiko IV as Naiki’s wife (tsuma) Suganoya (内記妻菅ノ谷), Ichikawa Saizaburô as the child Tamiya Botaro (田宮坊太郎) and an unidentified actor as Miyoshino Miyoshi (三吉野三吉)

Right sheet: Banô Mitsugorô IV as the abbot of Shido Temple (Shido-ji Shônin, 志渡寺上人), Ichikawa Kuzô II as Tsuchiya Naiki (土屋内記), and an unidentified actor as Matsunone Masugorô (松ノ根升五郎)

Play: Hanano homare chikai no tamada suki (花高誉誓仰環襷)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

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

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actors as Tamiya Souemon (田宮宗右衛門) and the servant (shimobe) Shigezô (下部繁蔵, holding baby)

Center sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Tamiya’s daughter (musume) Oteru (田宮娘おてる) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Moriguchi Kamejirô (森口亀次郎)

Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as Genpachi’s wife (tsuma) Sonoasa (源八妻其朝)

Play: Hanano homare chikai no tamada suki (花高誉誓仰環襷)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as the wet nurse (uba) Otsuji (乳母お辻) and the child actor Ichikawa Saizaburô as Tamiya Botaro (田宮坊太郎)

Play: Hanano homare chikai no tamada suki (花高誉誓仰環襷)

Date: 5th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tsuji-bun

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as the wet nurse (uba) Otsuji (うば おつぢ) and the child actor Ichikawa Saizaburô as Tamiya Botaro (田宮坊太郎)

Play: Hanano homare chikai no tamada suki (花高誉誓仰環襷)

Date: 5th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

 

I am grateful to Hehe Galerie for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Genpachi’s daughter (musume) Oteru (田宮娘おてる, female role)

Right sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Moriguchi Kamejirô (森口亀次郎, holding fan) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as the servant (shimobe) Yogorô (下部与五郎, standing)

Play: Hanano homare chikai no tamada suki (花高誉誓仰環襷)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Kunugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Osano (於さの, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Funebashi Jirôzaemon (船橋次郎左衛門, center), and an unidentified actor in an unidentified role (right)

Play: Hana shôbu Sano no yatsuhashi (花菖蒲佐野船橋)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Horst Graebner for information about this triptych.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the rônin Funebashi Jirôzaemon (浪人船ばし次郎右衛門, left) and Bandô Shûka I as Osano (於さの, right)

Play: Hana shôbu Sano no yatsuhashi (花菖蒲佐野船橋)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Katô-ya Iwazô

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this diptych.

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as the koshimoto (female servant) Chidori (こし元千鳥, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kajiwara Heiji Kagetaka (梶原平次景高, right)

Play: Hiragana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

 

NOTE: The object between the two actors is a suit of armor.

Actors: Left sheet: Seki Sanjurô III as the boatman (sendô) Gonshirô (船頭権四郎) and Onoe Baikô IV as Ofude (おふで, female)

Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the boatman (sendô) Matsuemon who is actually Higuchi Jirô (船頭松右ヱ門実ハ者樋口次郎)

Right sheet from right to left: Bandô Daijirô as sendô Dairoku (船頭大六), Nakamura Kan’emon I as sendô Kanroku (同くはん六), Nakamura Sagisuke as sendô Sadaroku (同佐義六), and Nakayama Bungorô II as sendô Bunroku (同文六)

Play: Hiragana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

NOTE: Dô (同) has a meaning similar to ditto.  Therefore, dô Kanroku (同くはん六) means the boatman (sendô) Kanroku (船頭くはん六).

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Higuchi Jirô Kanemitsu (樋口次郎兼光) disguised as the sendô (boatman) Matsuemon

Play: Hiragana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the cook (ryôrinin) Kisuke (料理人喜助)

Center sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢) and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as the hostess (nakai) Manno (仲居万野)

Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as courtesan Aburaya Okon (油屋於こん) and Ichikawa Hirogorô I as Ahitamaya Kitaroku (あひ玉や喜太六)

Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃, The Ise Dances and Love’s Dull Blade)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan, Horst Graebner and Robert Pryor for information about this triptych.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the chef (ryôrinin) Kisuke (料理人喜助) and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as the hostess (nakai) Manno (仲居まんの)

Center sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福𫝍みつぎ)

Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV Aburaya Okon (油やおこん)

Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃, The Ise Dances and Love’s Dull Blade)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô 

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as courtesan Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福𦊆 貢)

Center sheet: Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Shôjiki Shôdayû (正直正太夫) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Mitsugi’s aunt (oba) Omine (貢伯母おみね)

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as musume Satsuki (娘さつき) and Ichikawa Hirogorô I as Saruta Hikodayu (猿田彦太夫)

Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃, The Ise Dances and Love’s Dull Blade)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Sheets from other states of the above design

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Aburaya Okon (油やおこん, left) and Sawamura Chojurô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡 みつぎ, right)

Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃, The Ise Dances and Love’s Dull Blade)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) 

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Another state of the above design without a publisher’s seal

Actors: Sawamura Chojurô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢)

Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃, The Ise Dances and Love’s Dull Blade)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) 

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as courtesan Aburaya Okon (油屋於こん)

Center sheet: Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Shôjiki Shôdayû (正直正太夫) and Sawamura Chojurô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福𫝍みつぎ)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Hirogorô I as Saruta Hikodayu (猿田彦太夫) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as musume Satsuki (娘さつき)

Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃, The Ise Dances and Love’s Dull Blade)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as O-sae (おさゑ) and Bandô Sajûrô II as Jingobei (甚五兵衛)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the boatman (sendô) Yokichi (船頭与吉) and Katoaka Toragorô I (片岡 虎五郎) as Hachiyama Toroku (蜂山藤六)

Play: Tenjiku Tokubei karakoto banashi (天竺徳兵衛韓噺)

Date: 6th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kiyoimizu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Kandagawa Yokichi (神田川の与吉)

Play: Tenjiku Tokubei karakoto banashi (天竺徳兵衛韓噺)

Date: 6th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) and Ichikawa Hirogorô as Kanematsu Tanroku (廉松丹六)

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力弥)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kiyomizu-ya Naojirô or Shimizu-ya Naojirô

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this state without any green.

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力彌) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)  

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), the teahouse scene in act VII

Date: 7th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

 

NOTE: The sheet on the left was made for the production of Kanadehon Chûshingura in the 4th intercalated* month of 1845 with Ichikwa Gangyoku I as Ôboshi Yuranosuke and Bandô Takesaburô I as Ôboshi Rikiya.  The sheet on the right, with recut faces, was made for the production of the same play in the 7th month of 1849 with Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ôboshi Rikiya and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke.  I am grateful to Michel Ouellet, Lucienne Parkan, and Robert Pryor for the images and information.

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力彌)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô as Hayano Kanpei (早の勘平, left) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門, left), Onoe Baikô IV as Okaru (おかる, center), and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

 

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

Triptych title: Chûshingura, Act Ten (Chûshingura Jû-danme, 忠臣蔵 十段目)

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Baiko IV as Osono (おその)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as Amakawaya Gihei (天川屋義平)

Right sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) and an unidentified actor the apprentice (decchi) Igo (でっち伊吾)  

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

 

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this triptych.

This untitled series of diptychs of the 1849 performance of Kanadehon Chûshingura is listed in another section.

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Kojorô (小女郎) and Kawarasaki Chôjûrô III as Kotofure (ことふれ, child)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛)

Play: Aiaigasa chihusa no iro iro (相傘千種いろいろ)

Date: 8th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Another state of the above diptych

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Rokuyata’s wife (nyôbô) Fukaya (六弥太女房染谷) and Ichikawa Shinsha I as Kiku no Mae (菊の前)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Gangyoko as Rakujinsai jitsuwa who is actually Tagohei (楽人斎 実ハ田五平)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Okabe no Rokuyata (岡部六弥太)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849

Theater: Karawazaki

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the farmer (hyakushô) Juzô who is actually Sanmi Shigehira (百性重蔵 実は三位重衡, left) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Somagorô Sakugahiraiko Otsuji who is actually Ise Saburô’s daughter (杣五郎さくがひらい子おつぢ 実は伊勢三郎が娘, right)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849

Theater: Karawazaki

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

 

NOTE: Ichinotani (一の谷) is in red on the Rokuyata lattice.  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. 

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Okabe Rokuyata (岡部六弥太, left), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Satsuma no Kami Tadanori (薩摩守忠慶, center), and Ichikawa Gangyoku I as Tagohei (田五平, right)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849

Theater: Karawazaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga Saemon Munetsura (岩永宗連) and Ishikawa Shinsha I as Naruto Hitomaru (人丸, standing woman)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Chichibu Shigetada (父部重忠, standing) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Lady Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Chichibu Shigetada (秩父重忠) and Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Kajiwara Kagetoki (梶原景時)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga Munetsura (岩永 宗連) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kiyoimidzu-ya Naojirô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清) and Ichikawa Saizaburô as Hodomaru

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga Munetsura (岩永 宗連) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清) and Ichikawa Shinsha I as Hitomaru (人丸, woman)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga (岩永), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Shigetada (重忠) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this sheet from an alternate state of the above diptych with a plain ground and no kiri seal. 

Actors: Left sheet: Ishikawa Shinsha as Kagekiyo’s daughter (musume) Hitomaru (景清娘人丸), Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Kajiwara Kagetoki (梶原平三景時), Bandô Takesaburô I as Nitta Shirô Tadatsune (仁田四郎忠常), Seki Kasuke II as Hase Hachirô (長谷八郎), Hatagaya Shichiemon as Hanzawa Rokuro (半沢六郎), Ichikawa Saizaburô as Hodomaru (保童丸), Arashi Kichiroku as the soldier (gunpei) Guntô (軍兵運藤), and Ichikawa Mesuke as the soldier (gunpei) Gantô (軍兵軍藤)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Chichibu Jirô Shigetada (秩父次郎重忠), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga Saemon Munetsura (岩永 左衛門 宗連), Onoe Kikujirô II as Kagekiyoʼs wife Akoya (景清妻阿古屋), Matsumoto Kunigorô as Banba no Chûta (番場忠太), Matsumoto Torazô as Takenoshita Magohachi (竹ノ下孫八), and Kataoka Toragorô I as Unno no Tarô (海野太郎)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

 

NOTE: This triptych is very similar to a triptych for Iwao no Hananami no Shiraishi (岩藤浪白石) staged in the 3rd month of 1842. 

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Shinsha I as Kagikiyo’s daughter Hitomaru (人丸) and Bandô Takesaburô I as Nitta Shiro (仁田四郎, standing)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清) and Seki Kasuke II as Hase Hachirô (長谷八郎)

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Chichibujirô Shigetada (秩父治郎 重忠) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kagekiyo’s wife Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

 

NOTE: Some sources read 長谷八郎 as Nagatani Hachirô.  I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this image.

 

* An extra month inserted between the 4th and 5th months in the same manner as an extra day is added to a leap year

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