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.
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Actor: Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki Date: 1850 Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura Date: 7th
month of 1839 Theater: Nakamura-za Publisher: Jôshû-ya Jûzô |
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Actor: Play: Description: Samurai
holding a sword and biting on a purple silk cloth turns around to see a large
spider’s web Date: Publisher: |
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Actor: Arashi Rikaku II (二代目嵐璃珏) as a sanbasô marionette (ayatsuri
sanbasô, あやつり三番叟) suspended
from strings Dance: Yanagi no Ito Hikuya Gohiiki Date: 2nd
month of 1853 Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi |
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Actor: Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki Date: 9th
month of 1850 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Musashi-ya Isaburô NOTE: This print is about 10 by 7
inches (25 by 18 centimeters), a size known as chûban. |
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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: 8th
month of 1849 Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô (林屋庄五郎) |
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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: 8th
month of 1839 Theater: Ichimura-za Publisher: Jôshû-ya Jûzô |
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Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Jiraiya (児雷也) Play: The Heroic
Tales of Jiraiya (Jiraiya gôketsu monogatari,
児雷也豪傑譚語) Date: 7th
month of 1852 Theater: Kawarasaki-za Publisher: |
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Actor: Nakamura Utaemon IV as
Aoto Fujitsuna (青砥藤綱) Play: Aoto zôshi (青砥稿) Date: 7th
month of 1846 Theater: Ichimura-za Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô |
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Actor: Actor
Nakamura Utaemon IV as the dieing
Ôtaka Shuden becoming a
ghost Play: Takagi Oriemon budojitsu roku Date: 8th
month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: 与 under a single mountain is identified as Hori Takichi of Yushima in Kuniyoshi by B. W. Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961), but as Ôta-ya Takichi in Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium by Andreas Marks (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 2011) |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門) and Seki Kasuke as his son Gorôichi (倅 五郎市) Play: Konoshita Soga Megumi no Masagoji (木下曽我恵砂路) Date: 1st month of
1851 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: 与 under a single mountain is identified as Hori Takichi of Yushima in Kuniyoshi by B. W. Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961), but as Ôta-ya Takichi in Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium by Andreas Marks (Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 2011) |
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Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the priest Narukami Play: Narukami Date: 5th
month of 1851 Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô (seal on
post) |
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Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the priest Seigen Play: Koi (goro mo) Karigane zome (恋衣雁金染) Date: 1st
month of 1852 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô (seal on
post) NOTE: The blocks
for the above print were altered and reused.
Note that the text in the two red cartouches in the right upper corner
has changed. |
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Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as priest Koyo being tortured with boiling oil Play: Otogi banashi hakata no imaori Date: 9th
month of 1852 Publisher: Kawachi-ya Chôzô NOTE: Scenes of
torture are common in kabuki |
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Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Benkei holding
subscription list Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳, The
Subscription List) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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Actor: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Shiraito
(白糸) of the House
of Hashimoto-ya (橋本屋) Play:
Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Theater:
Nakamura Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi |
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Another state of the above design |
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Actor: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Shiraito
(白糸) of the House
of Hashimoto-ya (橋本屋) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei NOTE: Kuniyoshi
used Western style perspective for the back ground architecture |
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Actor: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Shiraito
(白糸) of the House
of Hashimoto-ya (橋本屋) holding a gold coin Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon Date: 3rd
month of 1852 Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagoro |
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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: 9th
month of 1848 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô |
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Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi
(東山桜荘子, The
Higashiyama Storybook) Date: 8th
month of 1851 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei |
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Actor: Iwai Kamesaburô Play: Sono mukashi koi no edozome (其往昔恋江戸染) Date: 1st month of
1849 Theater: Nakamura-za Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya
Masagorô Image courtesy of Ward
Pieters |
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Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kagekiyo (景清) Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産) Date: 8th
month of 1849 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Watonai (和藤内) Play: Kokusenya kassen (国性爺合戦) Date: 5th
month of 1850 Theater: Namakura-za Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Actor: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as之助?女之助 (possibly Menosuke) Play: Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右ェ門) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 2nd month of
1851 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô |
