Actors playing the game of ken,
Part II
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Title: Fox-ken of
Osaka (Ôsaka kitsune-ken, 大阪きつねけん) Description: Actors
Nakamura Utaemon IV and Onoe Tamizô
II playing ken Play: Date: 10th
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi Linhart: 52/10117 I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this
image. |
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Title: Ken of the Three Buddhas (Sanbutsu ken, 三仏けん) Description: A memorial
print (shini-e) for actors Onoe Matsunosuke (standing left), Ichimura Uzaemon
XII (sitting) and Matsumoto Kinshô I (right) Date: 10th
month of 1851 Publisher: No seal Linhart: 53/10057 |
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Title: Ken of
the Three Buddhas (Sanbutsu ken, 三仏けん ) Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Uraume no Kasuke (right), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hachidaimenosuke (standing left), and Ichimura Takenojô V as Uzumasa no Kippei (standing) Date: 1849
(censors Hama and Magome) Publisher: No seal Text: 三仏けん, 裏梅の歌升, 八代目之助, うづまきの橘平, 裏梅の歌升[4]中村 歌右衛門 八代目之助[8]市川 団十郎 うづまきの橘平[5]市村 竹之丞 I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for
this image. |
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Title: Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV,
and Bandô Takesaburô I
playing ken Play: Yoshiwara-ken Date: 2nd
month of 1852 Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke Linhart: 55/10115 |
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Title: Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV,
and Bandô Takesaburô I
playing ken Play: Yoshiwara-ken Date: 1852 Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke Linhart: 56/10149 |
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Title: Yoshiwara-ken Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV,
and Bandô Takesaburô I
playing ken Play: Yoshiwara-ken Date: 1852 Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Linhart: 57/10150 |
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Title: Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV,
and Bandô Takesaburô I
playing ken Play: Yoshiwara-ken Date: 1852 Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Linhart: 58/10151 |
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Title: Description: Actors Onoe Baikô IV, Ichikawa Kodanji IV,
and Bandô Takesaburô I
playing ken Play: Yoshiwara-ken Date: 1852 Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Linhart: Not listed |
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Title: Untitled Description: Actors Arashi
Yoshisaburô Dance interlude: The Treasure
Ship Entering the Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke Linhart: 60/10153 |
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Title: None Description: Actors Arashi
Yoshisaburô Dance interlude: The Treasure
Ship Entering the Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô Linhart: 61/10154 |
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Title: Moto-uta kae-uta Description: Actors Arashi
Yoshisaburô Play: The Treasure
Ship Entering the Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Publisher: Shinagawa-ya Kyûsuke Linhart: 62/10025 |
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Title: Asakusa-ken (浅草拳) Description: Actors Arashi
Yoshisaburô Play: The Treasure
Ship Entering the Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Linhart: 63/10030 |
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Title: Parody of Six
Immortal Poets (今様見立六歌せん 段がかへれば) Play: Hatsuharu no on-kotobuki
Soga (初春の御寿そが or 初春寿曽我) Description: Ichikawa Komazô IV, Ichimura Uzaemon XII
and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII playing ken (or dancing) Date: 1st
month of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei Linhart: Not listed |
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Title: Instruction in the Arts: Practicing Gestures (Shogei shian no uchi buri no keiko, 諸芸指安の内 ぶりのけいこ) Dance interlude: Shinki ikken tori no hatsugoe (A Ken
Game with New Rules to the First Cry of the Cock) Description: Three actors
with fans Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô Linhart: Not listed |
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Another state of the above design without a title cartouche in
the right-upper corner. The actors are
Bandô Shûka I as Ohide of Kewaizaka (けわい坂お秀, female),
Nakamura Utaemon IV as the fortuneteller (uranaisha) Sangokuken (浅草の郷者三国軒), and Ichimura
Uzaemon XII as Tobigashira Kakichi (鳶頭嘉吉). I am grateful to Marc DeVriese
for this image. |
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Title: Fashionable… Ken (Ryûkô … ken, 流行… ん) Play: Unidentified
play with Uzaemon XII sitting and Ichikawa Kuzô II standing Date: 1847-1850
(censors Mera and Murata) Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi Linhart: Not listed I am grateful to Michel Ouellet for this image. |
![Kuniyoshi - [Hana no naka no machi], (2)1852](Actors%20playing%20the%20game%20of%20ken,%20Part%20II_files/image013.jpg)
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“Linhart” refers to listing in the article ‘Kuniyoshi’s Ken Caricatures between 1847 and 1853’, by Sepp Linhart in Andon, Vol. 83, 2008, pp. 5-29
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