Actor triptychs

1851, Part IV

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門, top) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Hisayoshi (大領久吉, bottom) Play: Hama no masago tsukinu gohiiki (浜真砂長久御摂) Date: 3^rd month of 1851 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ebi-iya Rinnosuke NOTE: This is a vertical ôban diptych (kakemono-e)

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ishida no tsubone (石田局) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ishida’s daughter (musume) Hayase (娘早瀬)

Play: Hama no masago tsukinu gohiiki (浜真砂長久御摂)

Date: 3^rd month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門, top) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Hisayoshi (真柴久吉, bottom)

Play: Hama no masago tsukinu gohiiki (浜真砂長久御摂)

Date: 3^rd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Daikoku-ya

NOTE: This is a diptych composed of two horizontal ôban sheets.

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Ishida musume Hayase (石田娘早瀬, left) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ishida no tsubone (石田つぼね, right)

Play: Hama no masago tsukinu gohiiki (浜真砂長久御摂)

Date: 3^rd month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these hanshita-e (final drawings).

Actors: Center sheet: An unidentified actor as Mamushi no Otsugu (まむし の 大次 and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Kameya Chûbei (亀屋 忠兵衛)

Play: Koi no tayori Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)

Date: 3^rd month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Izutsu-ya Chûzaemon

Diptych title: Dôjôji (道成寺)

Actors: Arashi Rikan III as a female demon (鬼女, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the Buddhist priest Anchin (安珍, right)

Play: Dôjôji (道成寺, The Dôjô Temple)

Date: 4^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater:

Publisher: Iseyo of Owarichô

NOTE: The website of Waseda University gives the 4^th month of 1851 as the date for this diptych. However, the censors seals (Mera and Murata) indicate a date of 1847-1850.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Soga Gorô (五郎時宗, left), Nakamura Utaemon IV as Kudo Saemon (工藤祐経, center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Soga no Juro (十郎, right)

Play: Hana kyodai satsuki no yobanashi

Date: 4^th month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome)

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Otohachi III as Rentenbô (運天坊) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Princess Terute (てるて姫)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Riyaushi, actually the rônin Mido Kotarô (りやうし 浪七 実ハ 美戸 小太郎), Nakayama Ichizô I as Onio no Dohachi (鬼尾銅八), and Sawamura Gennosuke III as Zeze no Shirozô (ぜゞの城蔵)

Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)

Date: 4^th month of 1851

Theater: Nakamuraza

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Terute no hime (てるての姫)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Riyaushi, actually the rônin Mido Kotarô (浪七 実ハ 美戸 小太郎) and Nakayama Ichizô I as Onio no Dohachi (鬼尾の銅八)

Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)

Date: 4^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamuraza

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Nakayama Ichizô I as Onio no Dohachi (鬼尾の銅八), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Riyaushi, actually the rônin Mido Kotarô (漁師浪七実ハ美戸小太郎), and Sawamura Gennosuke III as Zeze no Shirozô (ぜゞの城蔵)

Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)

Date: 4^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe)

Theater: Nakamuraza

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Riyaushi, actually the rônin Mido Kotarô (漁師浪七, 実ハ美戸小太郎). Arashi Otohachi III as Rentenbô (運天坊) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Princess Terute (てるて姫) are in the background.

Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)

Date: 4^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and probably Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamuraza

Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Hirogorô I as りよふし 橋蔵 and Nakayama Ichizô I as Onio no Dohachi (鬼尾の銅八)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Riyaushi, in reality Mido Kotarô (漁師浪七 実ハ 美戸 小太郎)

Right sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Terute no hime (てるての姫) and Sawamura Gennosuke III as Zeze no Shirozô (ぜゞの城蔵)

Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)

Date: 4^th month of 1851

Theater: Nakamuraza

Publisher: Kagi-ya Hanshirô

Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Princess Terute (照手 姫), Sawamura Gennosuke III as Zeze no Shirozô (ぜゞの城蔵), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as ryoshi Namishichi (漁師浪), Nakayama Ichizô I as Onio no Dohachi (鬼尾銅八), and Ichikawa Hirogorô I as 矢バせ橋蔵

Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)

Date: 4^th month of 1851

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Koshô Kichisaburô (小性吉三郎) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as the maidservant Osugi (下女 お杉)

Center sheet: Ôtani Totoemon IV as Gunsuke (海老名軍蔵, on stool), Bandô Shûka I as Yaoya musume Oshichi (八百や 娘 お七), and Ichikawa Komazô VII as Goshaku Somegorô (五尺 染五郎)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門 伝吉) and Arishi Kishisaburô III as Nitta Shiro (仁田四郎)

Play: Koi moyô furisode myoto (恋模様振袖妹背)

Date: 5^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kagi-ya Hanshirô

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Komazô VII as Goshaku Somegorô (五尺 染五郎), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門 伝吉) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as the maidservant Osugi (下女 お杉)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋 お七)

Right sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Gunsuke (海老名軍蔵), Arashi Kishisaburô III as Nitta Tadatsune (仁田四郎) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Koshô Kichisaburô (小性吉三郎)

Play: Koi moyô furisode myoto (恋模様振袖妹背)

Date: 5^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Katô-ya Iwazô

NOTE: In this scene, the 16-year-old beauty, Yaoya Oshichi, is being taken on horseback to her execution. An additional signature of Kuniyoshi’s is hidden in the left sheet.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Komazô VII as Goshaku Somegorô (五尺 染五郎) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門 伝吉)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Yaoya musume Oshichi (八百屋 娘 お七) and an unidentified actor as tomodachi musume Okinu (友達 娘 お絹)

Play: Koi moyô furisode myoto (恋模様振袖妹背)

Date: 5^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Narukami the priest (鳴神 上人)

Play: Narukami (鳴神)

Date: 5^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Actors: Onoe Matsusuke III as the ghost of Kohei (Kohei bôkon, 小平ぼうこん, in white), Onoe Kikugorô III as the dead Kobotoke Kohei (kojin Kobotoke Kohei, 故人小仏小平), and Onoe Shinshichi III as Shiota Matanojô (瀬田又之丞, in green)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)

Date: 5^th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

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

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Kumagai nyôbô Sagami (女房さがみ, woman) and an actor from the Ichimura line (市村　橘蔵) as 堤ノ軍次

Right sheet: Ichimura Takenojô V as Kumagi Jiro Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記)

Date: 6^th month of 1851

Theater:

Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô

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