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: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura

Tôgo, Onoe Kikujirô II as Tôgo’s wife Omine (当吾 女房 おみね) and a child in her arms as sannan Sannosuke (三男三之介)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo, 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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