Actor triptychs
1853
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sanshichiro
Yoshitaka (三七郎義孝) Right sheet: Play: Kozote Kuruwa Mimasu no date zome (襷廓三升伊達染) Date: 1st
month of 1853 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Actors: Left sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as Shirajiku
(白菊) and an unidentified actor Right sheet:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sanshiro Yoshitaka (三七郎義孝) and Seki Sanjûrô III
as Iwami Tarô Tomohide (岩見太郎友秀) Play: Kozote Kuruwa Mimasu no date zome (襷廓三升伊達染) Date: 1st
month of 1853 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater:
Nakamura Publisher: I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this diptych. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichikawa Hirogorô I as Utsubo Yakurô
(宇壷矢九郎), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Kôtetsu Tachizô (荒鉄太刀蔵), and an
unidentified actor as the servant (shimobe) Gansuke (下部がん助) Center sheet: Bandô Shûka
I as Aoyagi Harunosuke (青柳春之助) and Bandô Takesaburô I as Yukioka Fuyujirô (雪岡冬次郎) Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô
IV as Ôtomo Keibu Sôren (大友刑部宗連) and Ichikawa Dannosuke V as Kagesawa Natsunojô
(蔭沢夏之丞) Play: Shiranui monogatari (しらぬひ譚) Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Ichikawa Dannosuke V as Kagesawa Natsunojô (蔭沢夏之丞) and Arashi Kunigorô I as Kôtetsu Tachizô (荒鉄太刀蔵) Center sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Aoyagi Shunnosuke (青柳春之助), Ichikawa Hirogorô I as 宇壺矢九郎 and Ichikawa Daijirô VI as the servant (shimobe)
Gansuke 下部がん助 Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô
IV as 大友刑部宗連 and Bandô Takesaburô I as Yukioka Fuyujirô (雪岡冬次郎) Play: Shiranui monogatari (しらぬひ譚) Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Funakoshi jitsuwa Wakana hime (船越実ハ若菜姫) Right sheet: Arashi Rikan Play: Shiranui monogatari (しらぬひ譚) Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô |
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Actors: Left sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as
Momoi Wakasa Nosuke (桃井若狭之介) and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Gotobei (五斗兵衛) Center
sheet: Bandô Takesaburô I
as Danzaburô (団三郎) and Hatagaya Shichiemon I as Hataemon (畑右衛門) Right
sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Rokusuke
(六三郎) and Bandô Shûka I as Osono (おその) Play: Shiranui monogatari (白浪物語) Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Ki-ya Sôjirô NOTE: Each sheet is dated the 8th month of 1853. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for the
image of the center sheet. |
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A greatly simplified version of the right
sheet of the above triptych |
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Actors: Arashi Rikaku II as kitsune (fox) Tadanobu (源九郎狐, left), Bandô Shuka I as Shizuka gozen
(center), and Bandô Takesaburô
I as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経, inset) Play: Yoshitsune
Senbon zakura (Yoshitsune and the
Thousand Cherry Trees, 裏表千本桜) Date: 5th
month of 1853 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Mikawa-ya Kihei |
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Actors: Miyagino (Arashi
Rikan III, 宮城野), who together
with her younger sister Shinobu (Bandô Shûka I) is taking revenge on her father’s murderer,
Shiga Danshichi (志賀団七) Play: Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石噺) Date: 9th
month of 1853 Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Mori-ya Jihei |
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Actors: Bandô Shûka I as
Koheiji Play: Kaidan kohada
koheiji (怪談木幡小平治) Date: 9th month
of 1853 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Mikawa-ya Tetsugorô |
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Actors: Nakamura Tomijûrô II as Ichimisai’s
daughter (musume) Osono
(一味斎娘おその, left) and Arashi Kichisaburô III as Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助,
right) Play: Kana kyôdai musume no adauchi (仮名㚾姉娘復讐) Date: 9th
month of 1853 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô |
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Title of
triptych: The Tale of Shiraishi: The Revenge (Shiraishibanashi katakiuchi no zu, 白石噺敵討の図) Actors: Iwai Kumesabûrô Play: Kana
kyodai musume adauchi (仮名㚾娣娘復讐) Date: 10th
month of 1853 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Another state of the above design |
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Actors: Ichikawa Saruzô I as Komachi hime (小町姫, left),
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as seki
Sekibei (関兵衛, center sheet),
and Ichikawa Komazô Play: Tsumoru koi yukino seki no to (積恋雪関扉) Date: 11th
month of 1853 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô NOTE: This is a modified
version of a design that was originally published for Tsumoru koi yuki no seki
no to in the 11th month of 1846. |
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Actors: Actors as
Tokiwa-gozen (常盤御前, left), Yaheibie Munekiyo (弥平兵衛宗清, center), and Munekiyo’s wife (tsuma) Kashiwagi (宗清つま柏木, right) Play: Probably Sugawara
denju tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) Date: 1842-1846
with seal of the censor Watanabe Shôemon (top) and
12th month of 1853 (bottom) Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke (top) and
Izutsu-ya Shôkichi
(bottom) NOTE: This triptych
was listed as “Tokiwa-gozen and her children in the
snowˮ by Robinson in Kuniyoshi:
The Warrior-Prints (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) based on
his having seen only the left sheet. However, the privately published
supplement states “This turns out to be a theatrical triptych, the
production so far unidentified”. The
play may be Sugawara denju tenarai
kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑). |
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