Actor triptychs
1849, Part
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Torazô who is actually Ushiwakamaru (虎蔵実ハ牛若丸) Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as
Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼) and Seki Sanjûrô Play: Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki (鬼一法眼三略巻, Kiichi
Hogen’s Book of Strategy) Date: 9th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke (玉惣) NOTE: Some sources date this production to the 8th
month of 1849. I am grateful to Robert
Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Seki Sanjûrô Play: Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki (鬼一法眼三略巻, Kiichi
Hogen’s Book of Strategy) Date: 9th
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image |
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Diptych
title: The Five Festivals, Autumn Leaf Viewing (Go sekku
no uchi, Momijigari, 五節句乃うち, 紅葉狩) Actors:
Seki Sanjûrô III as Taira no Koremochi (left) and
Nakamura Utaemon IV as the demon of Mt. Togakushi (right) Play: Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date: 9th
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)
Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
this image. |
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Diptych title: The Five
Festivals, Irises Dolls (Go sekku no uchi, ayame ningyô,
五節句のうち, あやめ人形) Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Takenouchi no Sukune (武内宿祢, left) and Bandô Shûka I as Empress Jingû (神功皇后, right) Play:
Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date:
9th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Diptych title: The Five
Seasonal Festivals, New Year (Go sekku no uchi, Mutsuki, 五節句のうち, 睦月) Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Fukusuke I as a young courtesan and the child actor Seki Hanasuke as
a young girl Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Uraume tayû (うら梅太夫) Play:
Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date:
9th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Diptych title: The Five Festivals, March (Go sekku no uchi, Yayoi, 五節句のうち,
弥よひ) Actors:
Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I
as the waitress Okaji and Seki Sanjûrô
III as a pilgrim Right sheet: Nakamura Fukusuke I as Chôko Play:
Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date:
9th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke NOTE: The banner reads kaichô (開帳), a festival
involving the unveiling of a usually hidden Buddhist image or relic. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Konkuhawi
(こんくハゐ) Right sheet:
Bandô Shûka I as
the waitress Okaji (仲居 おかぢ) and Nakamura
Fukusuke I as Chôko (釣狐) Text: 五節句のうち こんくハゐ Play:
Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date:
9th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor this alternate
state with changes to Konkuhawi’s back and Choko’s hakama (traditional
loose trousers, 袴). |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
additional variant. |
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Konkuwai (こんくわい) Play:
Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date:
9th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô Text in
cartouche: The Five Seasonal Festivals, Konkuwai (Gosekku no uchi, Konkuwai, 五節句の内, こんくわい) |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Takenouchi
no Sukune (武内宿祢) and Bandô Shûka I as the waitress
Okaji (inset) Right sheet: Bandô Shûka
I as Empress Jingû (Jingû-kôgô,
神功皇后) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hoshu daijin (inset) Play:
Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date:
9th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi Text: Left sheet: Dolls
associated with Boys’ Day (Ayame ningyô, あやめ人形) Right sheet: The Five Festivals (Go sekku no
uchi, 五節句の内) NOTE: Samurai dolls were
displayed on Boys’ Day (Tango), and dolls depicting Empress Jingû and her marshal Takeshiuchi
Sukune were among the most popular. |
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Actors:
Left sheet: Unidentified actors as the Shinto god Sarutahiko
(猿田彦) and a teahouse girl (chayaonna,
茶屋女, in clouds) Right sheet: Ichikawa
Kuzô II as a servant (shichô,
仕丁) and an
unidentified actor as a courtier (hikyaku, 飛脚, in clouds) Play:
Onnagori goshiki no Hanakago (余波五色花魁香) Date:
9th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for
this image. |
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Actors: Bandô Shuka I as wife (nyôbô)
Oseki (女房於関, left) and
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Gotobei (五斗兵衛, right) Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoe-jô
(義経腰越状, Yoshitsune’s
Letter from Koshigoe) Date: 9th
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Motome (もとめ, left), Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue), Act 4, Scene 1 Date: 11th
month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Robert Pryor for location this image. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Motome (求女) and Bandô Mitsuzô I as Center sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô Right sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as
Kanawa Gorô Imakuni (金輪五郎今国) and Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Sakura no tsubone
(さくらの局) Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 11th
month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi |
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Triptych title: Imoseyama onna
teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓) Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 11th
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi NOTE: Each bears the text “children’s dances” (kodomo odori zukushi,
子供おどりづくし). I am grateful to Willie Howard for this
image. |
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Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Koshitsu Sadaka (後室さだか, left) and Sawamura Chôjûrô
V as Daihanji (大判司, right) Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 11th
month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Hon-ya Naoshichi I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
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Sheets from less labor-intensive states of the
above design |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Omiwa (おみわ, left), and Sawamura
Chôjûrô V as Kanawa Gorô Imakuni (金輪五郎今国, right) Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 11th
month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Tolar Christina for this image. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Genpei II as the kamuro Tayori
(かむろたより) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Higashino
Yoshiro (東与四郎) Right sheet: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Naniwa Jirôsaku
(浪花次郎作) Play: Modorikago Iro ni Aikata
(戻駕色相肩, A Returning
Palanquin) Date: 11th
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke NOTE: “kamuro” (禿 or かむろ) is sometimes politely defined as a courtesan’s
child-servant, but apprentice is a more accurate translation. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Two sheets from another state, or possibly two different states,
of the preceding diptych. Note that
the sheet on the left does not have Kuniyoshi’s kiri seal. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Watanabe Wataru (渡辺亘, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Endo Musha Morito (遠藤武者盛遠, holding
Kesa Gozen’s severed head) Play:
Muro no ume mibae Genji (室楳学源氏) Date:
11th month of 1849 Theater:
Kawarasaki Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to
Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych. |
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