Miscellaneous bust portraits of actors

Part I

This section is intended to display bust and half-length portraits of actors that are not from series.  Undoubtedly, some are single sheets from larger works, and some may be from unrecognized series.  Unless otherwise noted, these prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.  I am grateful to Ward Pieters for assisting with this section.

	Actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) Play: Chûkô gishi no Yurai (忠孝義士由良意) Date: 7^th month of 1839 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Jôshû-ya Jûzô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
	Another state of the above design with a solid-colored title cartouche
	Actor: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Abe no Yasuna (安倍保名) Play: On Mitsugi Shinoda no hatsumono (御貢信田今歳稲) Date: 8^th month of 1839 Theater: Ichimura-za Publisher: Jôshû-ya Jûzô
	Actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左エ門) Play: Sekai wa Yoshida Sato no inazuma (世吉田花街稲妻) Date: 9^th month of 1839 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Jôshû-ya Jûzô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
	Text: A distant view of act VIII (八段目遠見) Series: Actor: Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 1847-1850 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô
	Actor: Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Karukaya Dôshin (苅萱桑門) Play: Zôha Tsukushi no iezuto (増補筑紫礎) Date: 7^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kiuzô
	Actor: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Taga Unemenosuke (多賀采女之助) Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語), the Ageya scene Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô I am grateful to Michel Ouellet for the above information.
	Actor: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as the blind minstrel (zatô) Takenoichi (座頭竹の市) Play: Eiri shôsetsu Asagao monogatari (絵入稗史蕣物語) Date: 8^th month of 1848 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	Actor: Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the dying Ôtaka Shuden (大高亡?) becoming a ghost Play: Takagi Oriemon budô jitsuroku (高木織右武実録) Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	Another state of the above design
	Print title: Portrait of Daruma on a Hanging Scroll (Ni Daruma no ichijiku, 似達磨の一軸) Actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV Play: Takagi Oriemon budôitsu roku Date: 8^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô NOTE: Although this print might pass as a Buddhist image of Daruma, the title, Ni Daruma no ichijiku, refers to the tale that was adopted for the kabuki play Takagi Oriemon budôitsu roku, in which actor Nakamura Utaemon IV starred.
	I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this alternate state without the red cartouche.
	Actor: Bandô Shûka I as Ohide (おひで) Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya) Date: 9^th month of 1848 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.
Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (right) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (left) hanging votive cloths at a temple Date: 1849-1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô
	Actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Aoto Saemon Fujitsuna (青砥左衛門藤綱) Play: Aoto Banashi (青砥調) Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô
	Actor: Iwai Kamesaburô III as Oshichi (お七) Play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染) Date: 1^st month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura-za Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Image courtesy of Ward Pieters
	Actor: Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵) Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, Disfigured Kasane) Date: 3^rd month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô
Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the magician Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII also as Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助, right) Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, Disfigured Kasane) Date: 3^rd month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô NOTE: There may be a third sheet showing the giant rat into which Nikki Danjô transforms himself.
	Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) holding subscription list Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The Subscription List) Date: 3^rd month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô
	Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yokichi of the Kanda River (神田川の与吉) Play: Tenjiku Tokubei karakoto banashi (天竺徳兵衛韓噺) Date: 6^th month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei
	Another state of the above design
	Actor: Sawamura Sôjûrô as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 7^th month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
	Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清) Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産) Date: 8^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke
	Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Okabe Rokuyata (岡部六弥太) Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産) Date: 8^th month of 1849 Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô (林屋庄五郎)
Actors: Ichikawa Utaemon IV as Honcho Tsunagorô (本蝶 綱五郎, left) and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kambara Sashichi (神原 狭七, right) Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛) Date: 8^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke Poems on lanterns on right sheet: ゑんましたのちからもち ひゐきがたいそう平のとももり Poems on lanterns on left sheet: 六歌仙にしかられた お名残のぬきみ

“Robinson” refers to listing of the series in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).

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