Actor triptychs

1849, Part V

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (本蝶 綱五郎) seated with his right arm extended and Nakamura Bungorô in an unidentified role who sits behind him

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, seated) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurobei (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

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, left) and Nakamura Utaemon VI as Honchomaru 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: Ningyô-ya Takichi

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchumaru 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

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (本朝丸綱五郎, right) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurôbei (半時九郎兵衛)

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

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, left), Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kanbara Sashichi (center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchomaru 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: Wo

Actors: Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurobei, Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô, Sawamura Gennosuke III as Kawanoya Jubei, Ichimura Kurôemon as Kanda Yokichi, Nakamura Sagisuke as Kanto Karoku and Otokodate

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 Honchomaru 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

Actors: Ichikawa Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (本蝶 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

Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kambara Sashichi (神原 佐七, standing) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Hantoki Kurôbei (半時九郎兵衛)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Utaemon IV as Honchomaru 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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Asamaru (阿沙丸, left), Bandô Shûka I as Shirayu (白ゆふ, center), and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hosaku (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

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

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Asamaru (left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the kosho (page) Hosaku, later priest Tenjitsubo

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 Kaju III as Utsumi (内海, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (法作後に大日坊改天日坊, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon as XII as Asamaru (阿沙丸 実は景清, 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

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the monk Tenjitsubo (天日坊) fighting crows

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

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kagekiyo (景清, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tenjitsubo (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 (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

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Naojirô

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tennichibô (天日坊) calmly pushing servant Sansuke into a hot water caldron

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

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Horimasa

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the servant Sansuke (left) and unidentified actor possibly 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

NOTE: The two sheets are from different states, with differently colored skies. I am grateful to Frederik Balhuizen and Josta Klaassen for the right panel.

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