Actor triptychs

1851, Part VI

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Misuji no Tsunagorô (三すじの綱五郎, on rock) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Seitaka (矜伽羅童子)

Right sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Kongara (せゐたか童子) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Fudo Myôô (成田山不動明王)

Play: Genji Moyô furisada hinagata (源氏模様娘雛形)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ujinao (氏尚), and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kôbai (紅梅)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Katsuragi (桂木)

Right sheet: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Hamana Munekiyo (浜名宗清)

Play: Genji Moyô furisada hinagata (源氏模様娘雛形)

Date: 9^th month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke

NOTE: According to the website of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this triptych is apparently an imaginary recasting, with some of the role names slightly changed, of the play Genji Moyô furisada hinagata, produced at the Ichimura Theater in the 9^th month of 1851. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this triptych.

A less labor-intensive state of the above design

Actors: Left sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Satsuma Gengobei (さつま 源五兵へ) and Arashi Kangorô I as 若者官五

Right sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sasano Sangobei (笹野 三五兵衛) and Onoe Baikô V as Ôya Koman (桜や 小万)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Actors: Left sheet: Unidentified

Center sheet: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sasano Sangobei (笹野 三五兵衛)

Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as Koman (小まん)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

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Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Koman (小まん, left) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Gengobei (源五兵衛, right)

Play: Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力恋緘)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Jiraiya, actually Kijin Omatsu (自来也実ハ鬼神お松), Bandô Matahachi as the retainer (shitate) Mitsuzô (下手光蔵), and Nakamura Narizô as the retainer (shitate) Torazô (下手虎三)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsume Shirosaburô (夏目四郎三郎) and Nakamura Kantarô I as the retainer (shitate) Kanta (下手勘太)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Another state of the above design with actors, names in white cartouches. In the left upper corner, the actor’s name appears to have been added on top of the publisher’s seal.

Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Kôzô I as soldier Kouzô (手下幸蔵), Bandô Shûka I as Jiraya, in reality the ghost of Kishin Omatsu (身来也 実ハ 鬼神 於松) and Kataoka Toragorô I as 手下 とら八

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四郎三郎) and Nakamura Kantarô I as 手下 かん太

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kado (角)

I am grateful to David Walters for the left-hand panel.

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as yakko Isohei (奴磯平)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Jiraya, in reality the ghost of Kishin Omatsu (自来也 実ハ 鬼神 於松) and Kataoka Toragorô I as Tega Torahachi (手下とら八)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四郎三郎)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke

Image courtesy of Charles-henri Bordeaux

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四良三郎)

Center sheet: Bandô Shûka I as the ghost of Kishin Omatsu (鬼神於松) and Arashi Kishisaburô III as Natsune Zaemon (夏目四郎左衛門)

Right sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as yakko Isohei (奴磯平)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Kishin Omatsu (鬼神於松)

Right sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as yakko Isohei (奴磯平, bare-chested)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as the servant (yakko) Isohei (奴磯平)

Right sheet: Arashi Kishisaburô III as Natsune Shirôsaburô (夏目四良左エ門) and Bandô Shûka I as the ghost of Omatsu (鬼神 之 於松)

Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪)

Date: 9^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Ichimisai musume Osono (一味斎娘おその, left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助, right)

Play: Hana momiji kora no yaegaki (花楓高良重賀紀)

Date: 11^th month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this sheet from another state of the above diptych.

Actors: Kataoka Gadô II as Chichibu Jirô Shigetada (秩父治郎重忠, left), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Bôzukibashichi (猪ノ志々坊主木場七, center), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Aku Shichibee Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清, right)

Play: Noborigoi taki no Shirahata (升鯉滝白籏)

Date: 11^th month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Wakakusa of the Wakanaya (若奈屋若草, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ukiyo Inosuke (うきよ伊之助, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Enma no Kohei (ゑんまの小兵衛, right)

Play: Noborigoi taki no Shirahata (升鯉滝白籏)

Date: 11^th month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Dokusoku no Daroku (独鈷の駄六, left) and Arashi Rikan III as Ono no Tôfû (小野ノ道風, right) looking at a jumping frog

Play: Shu no haru kabuki no kakizome (周春戯書始)

Date: 11^th month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

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