Actor triptychs

1851, Part V

Actors: Asao Tamejûrô IV as Shirakura Dengoemon (白倉伝五右衛門, left) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Miyamoto Musashi (宮本無三四, right)

Play: Chigusa no akitsuki ni Miyamoto (千種高秋月宮本)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Murashôya Tôgô (浅倉村庄屋尚吾) and an unidentified actor as the teashop proprietor (chaya, 茶や)

Right sheet: Unidentified actors as Kanshichi (かん七), Saheiji (左平次), and the blind men Dekuichi (でく市) and Bokuichi (ぼく市)

Inset: Bandô Takesaburô I as Ishidô Unemenosuke (石堂采女之助) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Katsuragi (桂木)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

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

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Murashôya Tôgo (浅倉 村庄屋 当吾)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Murashôya Tôgo (浅倉村庄屋当吾)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi

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

Actors: Left panel: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉当吾)

Right panel: Nakayama Ichizô I as Nanbamura Mineemon (standing)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Izu-ya Sankichi

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Tôgo’s wife O-mine (当吾 女房 おみね) and Nakayama Ichizô I as Orikoshi Kyokuzen (織越曲膳)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉当吾)

Right sheet:

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Nagayoshi, Ôtani Tomoemon IV as the courtier Goheita, and Onoe Kikujirô II as Tôgo’s wife O-mine

Center sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi Daizen (織越典膳), Ichikawa Tsutanosuke I (市川 蔦之助) as Asakura Tôgo’s son Tôtarô (忰当太郎), and Ichikawa Kumejirô I as Kunimatsu (国松)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉当吾) being tortured

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Tôgo’s wife Omine (当吾 女房 おみね) and a child actor as sannan Sannosuke (三男三之介)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Murashôya Tôgo (浅倉 村庄屋 当吾), Ichikawa Tsutanosuke I as isshi Tôtarô (一男当太郎), and Ichikawa Kumejirô I as Kunimatsu (二男国松)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Izu-ya Sankichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉村尚吾, seated on platform), Onoe Kikujirô II as his wife (nyôbô) Omine (女房おミね), and Nakayama Ichizô I as Hachiemon (八右衛門)

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Katsuragi (かつら木) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Katsuragi Chôkichi (かつさき長吉)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke (seal name Tsujibun 辻文)

Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Omine (female role) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉当吾)

Center sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Katsuragi Chôkichi

Right sheet: Nakayama Ichizô I as Hachiemon and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Katsuragi

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Izumi-ya Seishichi

Actors: Left sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Goheita (五平太), Morita Kanya XI as Hayato (隼人), Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Katsuragi Chôkichi (かつざき長吉), Onoe Kikujirô II as Tôgo’s wife Omine (当吾 女房 おみね), the child in her arms is sannan Sannosuke (三男三之介), and the child actor Ichikawa Tsutanosuke I as Asakura Tôgo’s son Tôtarô (忰当太郎)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kumejirô I as Kunimatsu (国松), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉当吾), and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi Daizen (織越典膳)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tanba-ya Hanjirô

Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Lord Orikoshi Masatomo (織越大領, center) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Asakura Tôgo (on all three sheets)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Lord Orikoshi Masatomo (織越大領), Iwai Kumesaburô III as shirabyoshi Katsuragi, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the koshimoto (female servant) Kozakura jitsuha Togo rei (こし元桜木実ハ当吾の霊)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the Ghost of Kozakura Togo and as the Tea Server Inma, Actually the Ghost of Togo

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this alternate state of the above design.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Shingo Asakura (浅倉当吾の亡霊)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Asakura Tôgo (浅倉当吾の亡霊) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi (織越 政知)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi Tairyo (織越)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the tea server (chado) Inba, actually the ghost of Asakura Tôgo and Iwai Kumesaburô III as the shirabyoshi dancer Katsuragi

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Lord Orikoshi Masatomo

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of the crucified Asakura Tôgo

Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô III as shirabyoshi Katsuragi and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the servant (koshimoto) Kozakura

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kaku (phonetic reading of 角)

Actors: Left sheet: こし元…

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Asakura Tōgo (浅倉当吾亡霊) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi Tairô (織越大領政知)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actor as Kyuuzaemon (久左衛門), unidentified actor as Tarô (太郎 兵へ), Ichikawa Hirogorô as Sakubei (作兵へ), and Bandô Zenji III as Komasuke (駒介)

Right sheet: Arashi Jitohachi III as Goheita (五平太) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉当吾)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Asakura Togo (left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi Tairyo Masatomo (right)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Shimizu-ya Tsunejirô

NOTE: The ghost is seeking revenge on the cruel samurai lord who had him crucified for protesting unfair taxes.

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Murashôya Tôgo (浅倉村庄や当吾), and Ichikawa Kohanji as Jûsaku (十さく), unidentified actor as Yata (午太), and unidentified actor as a farmer (hyakusho, 百性)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Hirogorô I as Sakubei (作兵衛) and actors as Tarobee (太郎兵衛), Komasuke (駒助), and Kyuuzaemon (久左衛門)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified actors as Komasuke (駒助), Kyuuzaemon (久左衛門), and Moriemon (森右衛門)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Murashôya Tôgo (浅倉村庄屋当吾)

Right sheet: Sakata Sajûrô II as Iwakura Omomizu (岩倉主水), Arashi Jitohachi III as Goheita (五平太), and Ichikawa Hirogorô in unidentified role

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kado

Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Ashikaga Yoshimasa (on bridge, 足利義政公) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura (wearing brown, 浅倉当吾), both in center sheet

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

NOTE: The seal of the censor Mera Ta’ichirô is upside-down on the center sheet.

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this keyblock print for a sheet of the above troptych.

Actors: Left sheet: Nakayama Ichizô I as Yamana Sozen

Center sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Fuji no Kata

Right sheet: Azuma Ichinojô I as Sugibae, and an unidentified actor as Sakingo (左金吾)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô

I am grateful to Mattia Jona for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉村当吾, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Katsuragi Chôkichi (かつざき長吉, right)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉村当吾, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Katsuragi Chôkichi (かつざき長吉, right)

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

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