Actor triptychs
1854
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Actors: Left sheet:
Arashi Wonkichi Center sheet: Kataoka Gadô
II as Tametomo (御曹子為朝) Right sheet: Iwai Kumesaburô Play: Matsu icho tsuru kame Soga (松扇杏鶴亀曽我) Date: 1st
month of 1854 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Hirabayashi-ya Shôgorô NOTE: This actor
triptych is an altered version of a design originally published by Iba-ya Sensaburô c. 1842-1843 as a
warrior triptych |
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Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Oshiyun (おしゆん) Play: Hatsu gasumi onna saruhiki (初霞女猿廻) Date: 3rd
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Yamada-ya Shôjirô |
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Actors: Nakamura
Fukusuke I as Kumagai Jirô Naozane
(left) and Ichikawa Kozô as Yoshitsune
(right) Play: Ichinotani futaba
gunki (Battle of Ichinotani) Date: 5th
month of 1854 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Actors: Left sheet: Kataoka Gatô II as Hayano Kampei Center sheet: Seki Kasuke as Yoichibei and an
unidentified actor as Senzaki Yagorô Right sheet: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Sadakurô Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 5th
month of 1854 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: No seal NOTE:
This triptych is a modified reprint of a triptych made for an earlier
performance of Kanadehon Chûshingura, in the second month of
1851. In this 1854 reprint, the
actor’s faces have been changed, and the publisher’s seal has been
removed. In the reprint, an 1854 date
seal and the aratame censor’s seal have
replaced the seals of the censors Fuku and Muramatsu. |
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Actors: Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 5th
month of 1854 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Actors: Nakamura Tomijûrô II as Sarashina (更科) and 10 year old Ichimura Uzaemon
XIII as Shikanosuke (鹿之介) Play: Ehon Sarashina monogatari (絵本更科譚) Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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Actors: Nakamura
Fukusuke I as Hanaregoma Chôkichi
(放駒の長吉, left) and
Arashi Kichisaburô Play: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki (双蝶仝曲輪日記), the Sumôba scene Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Another state of the right-hand panel of the above diptych in
which the background text is superimposed upon the red cartouche in the right
upper corner. I am grateful to Marc Devriese for this image. |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Fukusuke I as Hanaregoma no Chokichi (放駒長吉) and Nakamura Kantarô I as Mihara Ariemon (三原肴右エ門) Right sheet: Arashi Kichisaburô Play: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki (双蝶仝曲輪日記) Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Ichimuraza Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Nakamura Fukusuke I as Yogorô (与五郎) with
unidentified actors as Geta no Ichi (下駄の市) and as Node
no San (の手ノさん) Right sheet: Arashi Kichisaburô Play: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki (双蝶仝曲輪日記) Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Ichimuraza Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Diptych title: The Fifty-three Stations on Shank’s Mare, Odawara
(Hizakurige go-jû-san eki, Odawara; 膝栗毛五十三驛, 与太兵衛) Actors: Left
sheet: Nakamura Ichizô
I as Yajirobei and Arashi Wonkichi
Right sheet: Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Kitahachi (喜太八) and Ôtani Tokuji as the maidservant (gejo)
Otoku (下女おとく) Play: Tabi Tuzume aiyado banashi (旅雀我好話) Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebi-iya Rinnosuke This diptych is part of the series The Fifty-three
Stations on Shank’s Mare. |
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Actors: Play: Tabi Tuzume aiyado banashi (旅雀我好話) Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: |
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Actors: Left sheet: Nakamura Fukusuke I as
Urashima Taro (おまんがあめ, 浦しま) Center sheet:
Arashi Kichisaburô Right Sheet:
Nakamura Tomijûrô II as Chimori
no Jigokû (遊女地獄) and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Ikkyu
Zenji (一休禅師) Play: Uta no
shiori meisho no eawase (歌俤栞名所絵合) Date: 7th month of 1854 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi |
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Actors: Nakamura
Fukusuke I as the candy seller Oman ga ame (おまんがあめ) with Nakamura
Utaemon IV inset Play: Uta no shiori meisho no eawase (歌俤栞名所絵合) Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi |
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Actors: Nakamura
Fukusuke I as Ikkyûoshô (一休和尚, left) and
Nakamura Tomijûrô II as Jigoku
Dayû (地ごく大夫, right) Play: Uta no shiori meisho no eawase (歌俤栞名所絵合) Date: 7th
month of 1854 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Hirabayashi-ya Shôgorô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Left sheet: Asao
Okuyama III as Fujika Sakurô?
(富士ヶ根左九郎) and Bandô Shûka I as the thief Hitomaru Oroku (盗賊人丸お六) Center sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Tennichibô (??天日坊) Right sheet: Arashi Rikan III as Jirai Tarô
(地雷太郎) and Ôtani Tomoemon IV as Akaboshi
Daihachi (赤星大八) Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three
post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I as onna
junrei (female pilgrim) Osen, actually the tozoku (the bandit) Hitomaru
Oroku (女巡礼おせん 実ハ盗賊人丸お六), and an
unidentified actor as Osan Babaa (お三ばゝア) Right sheet: Arashi Rikan Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three
post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Mikawa-ya Kihei (seal ハ, 三喜) |
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Actors: Left sheet:
Arashi Rikan III as Narusawa Hayato (隼人?) and Arashi
Rikan III as Takekawa Iganosuke (竹川大?) Right sheet: Bandô Shuka I as Hitomaru no Oroku (人丸のお六) Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three
post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 (dated 7th intercalated month of 1854) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Kannon-in Deshi Hôsaku
(観音院弟子法作) Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three
post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô |
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Actors: Left sheet: Arashi
Rikan III as Misaku’s younger sister Otatsu (三作 妹 おたつ) and two other
actors Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Otatsu’s older brother Misaku (おたつ 兄 三作) and two other
actors Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three
post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: Otatsu, who is about to turn into a fox, writes a farewell poem to
her son with a brush in her mouth. |
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Actors: Arashi Rikan Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three
post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô I am grateful to Ward Pieters for this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Otatsu’s older
brother Misaku (おたつ 兄 三作, left) and
Arashi Rikan Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three
post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the monk Tenjitsubo
(left) and Bandô Shûka I
as a high-ranking courtesan (高窓太夫, right) Play: Azuma kudari gojûsan tsugi (Fifty-three post stations along the Azuma, 吾孺下五十三駅) Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi |
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Actors: Narrator on
left and three kabuki actors in
costume Play: Date: 8th
month of 1854 Theater: Publisher: Mikawa-ya Kihei |
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Actors: Kataoka Gadô II as Nagasawa Hayata (長沢早太), Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Ibaraki no Yazô (茨木の弥蔵), and Kataoka Gadô II as Yamaban Matsuzaku (山番松作) Play: Hatsu momiji ogura no shikishi (初紅葉小倉色紙) Date: 9th
month of 1854 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Title: Actors Compared to the Six Jewel Rivers (Mutsu no Tamagao, 六の玉顔) Actors: Left sheet:
Actor in male role compared to the Chidori no Tamagawa (千鳥の玉川) and probably Bandô Shuka I as the Buddhist nun Seigen Right sheet:
Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Yosaburô (与三郎) compared to
the Chofu no Tamagawa (調布の玉川), Onoe Baikô IV as Yokogushi Otomi (よこぐしのおとみ) compared to
the Tôi no Tamagawa (檮衣玉川), and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Soma no Yoshikado (相馬良門) compared to
the Ide no Tamagawa (井手の玉顔) Date: 9th
month of 1854 Theater: Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: This diptych may not represent a specific
dramatic scene. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for the image and to Robert Pryor for the above
information. |
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Actors: Right sheet:
Nakamura Utaemon IV as Daiba Nisaburô
who is in reality the Bunju Bodhisattva (提婆仁三郎実ハ文珠菩薩化身) Play: Possibly Keisei
kuruwa no kadomatsu
(The New Year Pine Tree of the Pleasure Quarters, けいせい廓門松) Date: 11th
month of 1854 Theater: Publisher: Ki-ya Sôjirô |
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Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shuka I Center sheet: Bandô Takesaburô
I Right sheet: Nakamura Kôzô I and
Nakamura Fukusuke I Play: Date: 12th
month of 1854 Theater: Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Two sheets from another state of the above
design |
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Actor: Triptych
memorial for Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII Date: 1854 Publisher: |
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Title: Eight Brides
for the Only Son (Hitori musuko ni yome hachinin) Actor: Diptych of
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII and his fans, possibly a memorial print (shini-e) Date: 1847-1854 Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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