Actor triptychs
1852,
Part II
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Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as wrestler Chôkichi
(はなれ駒長吉, left) and
Nakamura Utaemon IV as wrestler Chôgorô
(ぬれ髪長五郎, right) Play: Futatsu chôchô kuruwa nikki (双蝶仝曲輪日記, Diary of Two
Butterflies in the Pleasure Quarters) Date: 2nd
month of 1852 (censors Mera and Watanabe) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Jôsen (phonetic reading of 上仙) |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Otani Tomomatsu I as 池添孫八 (head on right
sheet), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Numazu no Heisaku (沼津 の 平作), and Onoe
Baiko IV as Heisaku musume
Oyone (平作 娘 およね) Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô
IV as Gofukuya Jûbei (呉服屋十兵衛) and Otani
Tomomatsu I as 池添孫八 Play: Igagoe Yomikiri koshaku (伊賀越読切講釈) Date: Intercalary 2nd
month of 1852* Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Onoe Baiko IV as Heisaku musume
Oyone (平作 娘 およね) Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô
IV as Gofukuya Jûbei (呉服屋重兵衛) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Numazu no Heisaku
(沼津 の 平作) Play: Igagoe Yomikiri koshaku (伊賀越読切講釈) Date: Intercalary 2nd
month of 1852* Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Actors:
Left sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as the monk Seitaka-bo (せい高坊) and Arashi Kichisaburô
as the monk Kongara-bo (こんがら坊) Center sheet: Bandô Shuka I as shirabyôshi
Hanako, the Maiden of Dôjôji (白拍子花子) Play:
Kyoganoko musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺) Date:
Intercalary 2nd month of 1852* Theater:
Ichimura Publisher:
Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Another state of the above triptych |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I as the shirabyôshi
dancer Hanako, the Maiden of Dôjôji Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as the monk
Seitaka-bo (せい高坊) and Arashi Kichisaburô as the monk Kongara-bo (こんがら坊) Play: Kyoganoko
musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺) Date: Intercalary 2nd month of 1852* Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ishi (phonetic reading of 石) |
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Sheet from another state of the above design |
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Actor: Bandô Shuka I as the shirabyôshi
dancer Hanako, the Maiden of Dôjôji Play: Kyoganoko musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺) Date: Intercalary 2nd
month of 1852* Theater: Ichimura Publisher: No seal |
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Actors: Arashi Rikan Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Churo Onoe
(left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Tsubone
Iwafuji (right) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi NOTE: The two
circular censor’s seals are from 1847-48, but the oval date seal reads
intercalary 2nd month of 1852.
This diptych was originally created for the 1848 production of Kamakura yamasakura
no gosho zome and
later altered for the 1852 production of Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon. I am grateful to Professor Davor Solter for
this image. |
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Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Churo Onoe
(left) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as Tsubone
Iwafuji (right) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: No seal NOTE: This diptych
was originally created for the 1848 production of Kamakura yamasakura no gosho
zome and later altered for the 1852 production
of Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon. |
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Actors: Bandô Shûka I as the servant Ohatsu (left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô
V as Iwafuji (岩藤, right) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Wakasa-ya Uhei |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水) and Fujikawa
Kaju Right sheet: Bandô Shûka
I as Hashimotoya Shiraito
(橋本屋白糸) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Katô-ya Iwazô |
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Actors: Left Sheet:
Nakamura Kantarô as provincial samurai (kunizamurai) Kandayu (国侍勘太夫), Sawamura Sojûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水), Nakamura Kanemon as farmer Kan'emon (百性勘右衛門), Arashi Jitohachi Center sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Hashimotoya Shiraito (橋本や白糸), Nakamura Kamenojô I as Ôta (橋本やおうた), and
unidentified actors as 若イ者善介, おだい and おつか Right sheet: Ôtani Tomoemon
IV as 筑波根山平, Onoe Kikujirô II
as Mondo nyobo Oyasu (主水女房おやす), Bandô Matatarô as わか者又, and
unidentified actors as おかん, おさん, and わか者成 Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei NOTE: This is not a scene from the play. It shows the actors from Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon in a teahouse or brothel. Kuniyoshi used Western style perspective
for the back ground architecture |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Unidentified actor as Taikomochi Kajû (たいこ持嘉十) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Mondo nyôbôo
Oyasu (主水女房おやす) Center sheet: Nakamura Kamenojô I as Ôta (おうた) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水) Right sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Hashimotoya Shiraito (橋本や白糸) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 (with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi NOTE: Kuniyoshi used Western style perspective for the back
ground architecture |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水) Center sheet: Onoe Kikujirô II as Mondo
nyôbô Oyasu (主水女房おやす, female role),
7-year-old Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Mondo musume Otoku (娘おと), and Arashi Kichisaburô Right sheet: Bandô Shûka
I as Hashimotoya Shiraito
(橋本屋白糸) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Maru-ya Jinpachi I am grateful to Marc Devriese for this
image |
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Actors: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Shiraito
of the House of Hashimoto-ya (left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水, right) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 (with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei NOTE: Kuniyoshi used Western style perspective for the back
ground architecture |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Sawamura Sojûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水, male role),
Onoe Kikujirô II as nyôbô
Oyasu (女房おやす, in gray), and
Bandô Shuka I as Hashimotoya
Shiraito (橋本や白糸, holding
paper) Right sheet: Nakamura Kantarô as the samurai
Kandayu (国侍勘太夫), Sawamura Ujûrô II as Tsujin Sakutarô (通人作太郎), Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Tsukubane Sandaira (筑波根山平), and Nakamura Kanemon as
Hyakusho Kanemon (百性勘右衛門) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Izutsu-ya Shôkichi |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Onoe Kikujirô II as Mondo’s wife Oyaso (主水女房おやす) and
7-year-old Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as the daughter Otoku (娘おと) Center sheet: Bando Shuka I as Shiraito
of the Hashimoto-ya (橋本や白糸) and an
unidentified actor as the clerk Zenroku Right sheet: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as
Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke NOTE: This is a hanshita-e (final drawing for a print) |
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Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Ichimonjiya Saihei (一もんじや才兵衛, left), Bandô Takesaburô I as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平, center), and
Onoe Baiko IV as Okaru Koshimoto
Okaru (こし元おかる, right) Play: Yayoi no hana
iroha no honsetsu (宿花いろは本説) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Izutsu-ya Shôkichi NOTE: Yayoi no Hana Iroha no Honsetsu
is similar to the classic Kanadehon Chûshingura. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Kataoka Ichizô I as Yoichibei
(百性与一兵衛) and Onoe
Baiko IV as Okaru (おかる, inset) Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô
IV as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎) and Bandô Takesaburô I as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平, inset) Play: Yayoi no hana
iroha no honsetsu (宿花いろは本説) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 (censors Mera and Watanabe with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎) and Morita
Kanya XI as Ono Kudayû (斧九太夫) Center sheet: Bandô Takesaburô
I as Hayano Kanpei (早野 勘平) Right sheet: Onoe Baiko IV as Kanpei nyobo Okaru (かん平女房おかる) Play: Yayoi no hana
iroha no honsetsu (宿花いろは本説) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi |
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Actors:
Left sheet: Morita Kanya XI (Bandô Mitsugorô IV) as Oribe Yasubei
(堀部安兵衛) Center sheet: Onoe
Baiko IV as Usugumo (うすぐも, kneeling)
and Kataoka Ichizô I as Senzaki Yagorô
(千崎弥五郎, standing) Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburo IV as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門) Play: Yayoi no hana
iroha no honsetsu (宿花いろは本説) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 (with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Tsuta-ya Kichizô |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Azuma Itchinojô I as Ôboshi
Rikiya (大星力弥), unidentified
actor as Suginô Shigeheiji
(杉能重平治), and Bandô Sajûrô I as Hara Goemon (原郷右衛門) Center sheet: Morita Kanya XI as Moronao
(高武蔵守師直), unidentified
actors as Tsukamatsu Hanroku (塚松半六) and 真世孫五郎 Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô
IV as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助), unidentified
actors as Ôwashi Bungo (大鷲文吾) and Aihara Isuke (相原伊介) Play: Yayoi no hana
iroha no honsetsu (宿花いろは本説) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Bandô Takesaburô I as Enya Hangan Takasada (left)
attacking Morita Kanya XI (Bandô Mitsugorô IV) as Ko no Morono (right) Play: Yayoi no hana
iroha no honsetsu (宿花いろは本説) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô |
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Actors: Momonoi Wakasano Suke (center)
advancing towards Morita Kanya XI as Ko no Morono (right) after Bandô Takesaburô I as Enya Hangan Takasada (left) had been
accused of breaking the court law Play: Yayoi no hana
iroha no honsetsu (宿花いろは本説) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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*An extra month inserted between the 2nd and 3rd months in the same manner as an extra day is added to a leap year
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