Actor triptychs

1852, Part I

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the daijin (cabinet minister) Kibi (吉備大臣)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Haguri Yoshimitsu (羽栗吉光) and Arashi Wonkichi III as 官人がまんくわん

Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Abe no Nakamaro (仲麿の霊魂) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Anrokuzan (安禄山)

Play: Kinu Gyokuto wakoku no irifune (金烏玉兎倭入船)

Date: 1^st month of 1852

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV in unknown role, Morita Kanya XI as Kanningentou (官人玄東), unidentified actor as Jiyaman Kuwan (じやまんくわん), and Nakamura Karoku I as Daijiro Kiyome (大次郎 季清女)

Right sheet: Bandô Sajûrô I as Santokan (三都館) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the daijin (cabinet minister) Kibi (吉備大臣)

Play: Kinu Gyokuto wakoku no irifune (金烏玉兎倭入船)

Date: 1^st month of 1852

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Koga-ya Katsugorô

Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as the daijin (cabinet minister) Kibi (吉備大臣) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Nakamaro no rei (仲麿の霊)

Right sheet: Morita Kanya XI as Kanningentou (官人玄東), Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Anrokuzan (安禄山), and Bandô Sajûrô I as Santokan (三都館)

Play: Kinu Gyokuto wakoku no irifune (金烏玉兎倭入船)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this hanshita-e (final drawing).

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Haguri Yoshimitsu (羽栗吉満, left) and Onoe Baiko IV as Princess Natsuki (名月姫, right)

Play: Kinu Gyokuto wakoku no irifune (金烏玉兎倭入船)

Date: 1^st month of 1852

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Sakura hime (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kiyomizu Seigen (center), and an unidentified actor on right

Play: Koigoromo karigane-zome (恋衣雁金染)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Kinugasa and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Gokuin Sen'emon (極印千右エ門, bottom left), Ichikawa Kuzô II as An no Heibei (安野平兵衛, top right), Arashi Rikan III as Hotei Ichiemon (布袋市右エ門, top left), Iwai Kumesaburô III as Karigane Bunshichi (雁金文七, middle), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kaminari Shôkurô (雷庄九郎, bottom right)

Play: Koigoromo karigane-zome (恋衣雁金染)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Kinugasa and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Unidentified

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

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Inuzuka Shinno (犬坂毛野, left standing) and Sawamura Chojûrô V as Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo (犬山道節忠興, on right)

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

NOTE: This diptych appears to have been printed from the same woodblocks as the above triptych, with some alterations.

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Inuzuka Shinno (犬塚信の成孝, left) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Inugai Genapachi (犬飼現八信道, right) on the roof of Horyukaku Temple

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state of the above design.

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kichisaburo III as Inuta Kobungo (犬田小文吾悌順, foreground) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Yamabayashi Fusahachi (山林房八)

Center sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Inugai Genapachi (犬飼現八信道) and Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Tanaya Bungohei (古那や文五兵衛, with pole)

Right sheet: Unidentified actor as lady Kempachi Nobuchi

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Inuta Kobungo (網干左母次郎), Onoe Kikujirô II as Hikiroku musume Hamaji (蟇六娘浜路), Nakamura Kanemon as (軍木五倍二), and Ôtani Tomoemon IV as 荏宦蟇六

Right Sheet: Bando Shuka I as Inuzuka Shinno (犬塚信乃), Seki Sanjûrô III as 小者額蔵, Nakamura Kantarô as ☆上宮六, and Nakayama Bungorô III as Kamezasa’s wife Toroku (蟇六女房亀笹)

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Kinugasa and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Left sheet: Ichiko Daihachi (一子大八, baby), Onoe Kikujirô II as Fusahachi nyôbo Mei (房八 女房 ぬい, woman), and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Inuta Kobungo (犬田小文吾, man)

Right Sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Inuzuka Shinno (犬塚信乃), and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Sanrin Fusahachi (山林房八)

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Inuzuka Shinno (犬塚信の, left) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Inushika Bansaku (犬塚番作, right)

Play: Satomi hakkenden (里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei

I am grateful to Sophie Kinet Van Loock for this image.

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Inuyama Dôsetsu (犬山道節, top) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Inukawa Sôsuke (犬川荘助, bottom) Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝) Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Madome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô NOTE: This is a vertical ôban diptych (kakemono-e). I am grateful to Robert Pryor for locating this image.

Actors: Left sheet: Arashi Kichisaburo III as Inuta Kobungo

Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Inukai Genpachi (foreground)

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Actors: Left sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Inukawa Sosuke (犬川荘介義住) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Dôsetsu musume Hamaji (道節 娘 はまぢ)

Right sheet: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Inuyama Dosetsu (犬山道節忠知) and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Inuta Kobungo (網干左母次郎)

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Actors: Left sheet: Actors as Yukun Kazaore (遊君風折) and Soga Hakômaru (曽我箱王丸 舞子立花, child)

Center sheet: Actors as Soga Ichimanmaru (曽我一万丸　舞子かんぎく), Kudo Suketsumi actually Kagoyama Kangayu (工藤祐経実ハ篭山勘ヶ由), and けいせい歌あや

Right sheet: Actors as Keisei Kakitsu (けいせい家橘), Shirabyoshi’s wife Koto Inuzaka Asageno (白拍子妻琴　犬坂朝毛野), and Tianjin Shichirô (天津七郎)

Play: Sode kichô chikai no asazuma (袖机帳誓別朝妻）

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Amatsu

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

Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Asari no Yoichi (浅利 の 与市 義遠)

Center sheet: Ichikawa Kuzô II as the nun Midai Masako (尼 御台 政子 御ぜん)

Right sheet: Ichikawa Dannosuke V as Heita’s wife Tsunade (平太妻綱手), child actor as Michiyo (実千代), and Arashi Rikan III as Yoichiv tsuma Hangaku (与市 妻 板額)

Play: Wada gassen onna maizuru (和田合戦女舞鶴, The Battles of Wada and a Woman’s Crane Dance)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke

Actors: Right sheet: Ichikawa Dannosuke V as Heita’s wife Tsunade (平太妻綱手) and child actor as Michiyo (実千代)

Play: Wada gassen onna maizuru (和田合戦女舞鶴, The Battles of Wada and a Woman’s Crane Dance)

Date: 1^st month of 1852

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Tsuta-ya Kichizô

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時宗, left), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経, center), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成, right)

Play: Yami no Ume Yume no Tamakura (闇梅夢手枕)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image and to Lucienne Parkan for information about the triptych.

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