Actor triptychs

1849, Part V

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (本蝶 綱五郎) with his right arm extended and Nakamura Bungorô II as Yumira Tsukizaruzô seated in back

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, seated) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurôbei (半時九郎兵衛, standing)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, left) and Nakamura Utaemon VI as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (翻蝶丸綱五郎, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (本朝丸綱五郎, left), Ichimura Utaemon XII as Sashichi (佐七, center, and Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-iya Rinnosuke

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this state without a text cartouche.

Actors: Left sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurôbei (半時九郎兵衛)

Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (本朝丸綱五郎)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, female role) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sashichi (佐七, standing)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kambara Sashichi (神原 佐七, center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (本朝丸綱五郎, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: O

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Gennosuke III as Kônoya Jubei (河野屋十兵衛), Ichimura Kuroemon as Kanto Karoku (関東嘉六), and the child actor Nakamura Sagisuke as Kanda Yokichi (神田与吉)

Center sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (翻蝶丸綱五郎, seated), and unidentified actors as Otokodate Motogo (男達茂登吾), Otokodate Kôzô (男達孝三), and Otokodate Mata (男達亦)

Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurobei (半時九郎兵衛), an unidentified actor as Otokodate Irizô (男達伊利三), and Nakayama Bungorô II as Yumira Tsukizaruzô (弓良月猿蔵)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Kurôemon (市村 九郎右衛門) as Kanda Yokichi (神田与吉) and the child actor Nakamura Sagisuke (中村鷺助) as Kanto Karoku (関東嘉六)

Center sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurobei (半時九郎兵衛)

Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (飜蝶丸綱五郎)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke (海老屋林之助)

NOTE: The board at the shrine entrance reads Ebisu (海老寿). The name of the god Ebisu is usually written as either 恵比須 or 恵比寿. However, here it is written using the same initial kanji as in the name of the publisher Ebi-ya Rinnosuke. The publisher’s name also appears in hiragana (ゑびや) on the placard below Hantoki Kurobei’s chin.

Actors: Ichikawa Utaemon IV as Honchô Tsunagorô (本朝 綱五郎, left) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kambara Sashichi (神原 佐七, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Poems on lanterns on right sheet: ゑんましたのちからもち ひゐきがたいそう平のとももり

Poems on lanterns on left sheet: 六歌仙にしかられた お名残のぬきみ

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kambara Sashichi (神原 佐七, standing) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurôbei (伴時黒半)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Utaemon IV as Honchômaru Tsunagorô (本蝶 綱五郎, standing) and Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

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

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Asamaru (阿沙丸, left), Bandô Shûka I as Shirayû (白ゆふ, center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hôsaku (法作, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Moritoku

NOTE: A religious statue is giving off a supernatural light. The text on Asamaru’s clothing reads the true bodhisattva Kannon (Shô-Kanzeon bosatsu, 正觀世音菩薩).

Single sheet from a later and simplified printing of the above triptych

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Asamaru who later becomes Kagekiyo (阿沙丸 後二景清, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the page (koshô) Hôsaku who later becomes Tennichibô (小性 法作 後ニ天日坊, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Actors: Fujikawa Kayu III as Utsumi (内海, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hôsaku who later became Tennichibô (法作 後ニ 天日坊, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon as XII as Asamaru who later became Kagekiyo (阿沙丸後ニ景清, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state with additional text on the left panel.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the monk Tennichibô (天日坊) with crows, which were a bad omen

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kagekiyo (景清, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tennichibô (天日坊, center), and Bandô Shûka I as Lady Akoya (阿古屋, right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the evil monk Dainichibô who became Tennichibô (大日坊改天日坊)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hôsaku who later becomes Dainichibô and then Tennichibô (法作 後ニ大日坊, [に]天日坊) calmly pushing servant (genan) Sansuke (下男三助) into a cauldron of boiling water

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the servant Sansuke (left) and possibly Bandô Shûka I as Onna Toromochi (right)

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tanba-ya Hanjirô

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