Actor triptychs

1849, Part IV

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Nurse Otsuji (うばお辻)

Center sheet: Onoe Baiko IV as a matron (内記妻菅ノ谷), Saizarô or Saizorô (才三郎) 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 a priest (志渡寺上人), Ichikawa Kuzô II as a samurai (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: 5^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actors as Tamiya Souemon (田宮宗右衛門) and 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 Sonoashita (源八妻其朝)

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

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

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this triptych.

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Nurse Otsuji (乳母お辻) and Saizarô or Saizorô (才三郎) as Tamiya Botaro (田宮坊太郎, child)

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

Date: 5^th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tsuji-bun

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Nurse Otsuji and Saizarô or Saizorô (才三郎) as Tamiya Botaro (田宮坊太郎, child)

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

Date: 5^th 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 Tamiya’s daughter (musume) Oteru (田宮娘おてる, female role)

Right sheet:

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

Date: 5^th 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: 5^th 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: 5^th 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 Kagetoki (梶原平次景高, right) with a suit of armor

Play: Hiragana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)

Date: 5^th 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 sendô (boatman) Gonshirô and Onoe Baiko IV as Ofude (おふで, female)

Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Higuchi Jirô Kanemitsu disguised as the sendô (boatman) Matsuemon

Right sheet: boatmen Dairoku, Kanroku, Sadaroku, and Bunroku

Play: Hiragana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

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: 5^th 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 an unidentified actor as the waitress (nakai) Oshika

Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as courtesan Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん) and Nakamura Tsuruzô 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: 5^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

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

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as courtesan Aburaya Okon and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Fukuoka Mitsugi

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

Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as Aburaya and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Ahitamaya Kitaroku

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

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

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Aburaya (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: 5^th 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

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

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

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

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 Yokichi (船頭与吉) and Katoaka Toragorô I (片岡 虎五郎) as Toroku Hachiyama (蜂山藤六)

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

Date: 6^th 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: 6^th 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 an unidentified actor 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: 7^th 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.

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

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

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

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Horimasa

NOTE: The two different states of the same design may have been used for different productions of Kanadehon Chûshingura. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about the print.

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

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7^th 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: 7^th 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: 7^th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

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

Triptych title: The Chûshingura in Ten Acts (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 Igo (伊吾)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7^th 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: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Another state of the above diptych

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as 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 (楽人斎 実ハ田五平)

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

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

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Karawazaki

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as 百性重蔵 実は三位重衡 (left) and Onoe Kikujirô II as 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: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Karawazaki

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

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 jitsu Tagohei (田五平, right)

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

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Karawazaki

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga Saemon Sôren (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: 8^th 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 Sôren (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: 8^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kiyoimidzu-ya Naojirô

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

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Sôren (岩永宗連), 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: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

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 Tadatsune (仁田四郎忠常), Seki Kasuke II as Nagatani Hachirô (長谷八郎), Hatagaya Shichiemon as Hanzawa Rokuro (半沢六郎), Ichikawa Saizaburô as Hodomaru (保童丸), Arashi Kichiroku as 軍兵軍藤, and Ichikawa Mesuke (reading of given name, 眼助, uncertain) as 同眼藤

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

Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Shigetada (秩父次郎重忠), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga Sôren (岩永 左衛門 宗連), Onoe Kikujirô II as Kagekiyoʼs wife Akoya (景清妻阿古屋), Matsumoto Kunigorô as Banba Chûta (番場忠太), Matsumoto Torazô as Takenoshita Magohachi (竹ノ下孫八), and Kataoka Toragorô I as Umibe (海野太郎)

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

Date: 8^th 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 3^rd 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 Nagatani 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: 8^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

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

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清) and a child actor

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Iwanaga Sôren (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: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi

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