Miscellaneous bust portraits of actors

Part II

	Actor: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷連生法師), who renounced his life as warrior and became a Buddhist monk under the name Renshô-bô Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki Date: 3^rd month of 1850 Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei
	Series: Untitled series of busts of actors in front of archery targets Actor: Ichikawa Ebizô V as the monk Kumagai Rensei (熊ヶ谷蓮生坊) Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記) Date: 3^rd month of 1850 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information about this print.
	Series: Untitled series of busts of actors in front of archery targets Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Agemaki no Sukeroku (揚巻の助六) Play: Sukeroku kuruwa no hanamidoki (助六廓の花見時)　 Date: 3^rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	Series: Untitled series of busts of actors in front of archery targets Actor: Bandô Shuka I as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻) Play: Sukeroku kuruwa no hanamidoki (助六廓の花見時)　 Date: 3^rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Kuzunoha kitsune (葛乃葉狐) writing a farewell poem on a shôji (sliding panel) holding a child (right) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Abe no Yasuna (阿部保名, left) Play: Ashiya dauman ochi kagami Date: 5^th month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Watonai (和藤内) Play: Kokusenya kassen (国性爺合戦) Date: 5^th month of 1850 Theater: Namakura-za Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke
	Actor: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼) Play: Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki (鬼一法眼三略巻) Date: 9^th month of 1850 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher:
	Actor: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Yoshioka Kiichi Hôgen Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki Date: 9^th month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Musashi-ya Isaburô NOTE: This print is about 10 by 7 inches (25 by 18 centimeters), a size known as chûban.
Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sakuramaru (桜丸) Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Matsuômaru (梅王丸) and Nakayama Bungorô II as Kanabô (かなぼう) Play: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) Date: 10^th month of 1850 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
Left panel: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Shirai Gompachi from the 1851-1852 series 36 Fashionable Restaurants of the Eastern Capital Right panel: Shini-e of Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII Censor’s seals: Mera and Watanabe Publisher: Mikawa-ya Kihei
	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: Ôta-ya Takichi
	Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右ェ門) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô
	Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Unidentified
	I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this alternate state of the above design.
	Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as the wicked priest Narukami Shonin (鳴神上人)  Play: Narukami (鳴神) Date: 5^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe) Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô (seal on post)
	Actor: Memorial portrait of Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô (seal on post) NOTE: The blocks for the preceding print were altered and reused.  The text in the red cartouche was changed from Narukami Shonin (鳴神上人) to the divine Shonin (なる神上人).
	Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Tôgo (浅倉?吾) Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook) Date: 8^th month of 1851 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei
Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Asakura Togo (浅倉当吾亡霊, left) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Orikoshi Tairyo Masatomo (織越大領政知, right) Play: Higashiyama sakura zôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook) Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Mera and Watanabe) Publisher: Shimizu-ya Tsunejirô NOTE: The ghost is seeking revenge on the cruel samurai lord who had him crucified for protesting unfair taxes.
Actors: Bando Shuka I as kijin (person of high rank) Ômatsu, and, in the inset, Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Natsume Shirozaburô (夏目四郎三郎). Nakamura Kantarô I as the retainer (shitate) Kanta (下手勘太) is also shown in the print on the right. Play: Shinpan koshi no shiranami (新板越白浪) Date: 9^th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata) Publisher: Tanba-ya Hanjirô
	Title: Shiraito of the Hashimoto-ya (橋本屋白糸) 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: 3^rd month of 1852 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi
	Another state of the above design
	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: 3^rd month of 1852 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagoro
Actors: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Shiraito of the House of Hashimoto-ya (left) and Sawamura Sôjûrô V as Suzuki Mondo (鈴木主水, right) Play: Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon (隅田川対高賀紋) Date: 3^rd month of 1852 (with shita-uri seal) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei NOTE: Kuniyoshi used Western style perspective for the back ground architecture
Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Danshichi’s wife O-kaji (団七おかぢ, left) and Seki Sanjuro III as the hag, wife of Giheiji of Mikawa-cho (平次お婆ア, right) Play: Shinzô tsurifune kidan (新造艣奇談) Date: 5^th month of 1852 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Sôgane (phonetic reading of 相金)
Actors: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実, right) killing Onoe Kikujirô II as Atsumori (left) Play: Suma no Miyako Genpei Tsutsuji Date: 5^th month of 1852 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi
	Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Jiraiya (児雷也) Play: Jiraiya gôketsu monogatari (The Heroic Tales of Jiraiya, 児雷也豪傑譚語) Date: 7^th month of 1852 Theater: Kawarasaki-za Publisher:
	Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as priest Koyo (老養法師) being tortured with boiling oil Play: Otogi banashi hakata no imaori Date: 9^th month of 1852 Publisher: Kawachi-ya Chôzô NOTE: Scenes of torture are not uncommon in kabuki.
Actors: Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Sanshichiro Yoshitaka (三七郎義孝) Right sheet: Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Seki Sanjûrô III, and Ichikawa Komazô VII Play: Kozote Kuruwa Mimasu no date zome (襷廓三升伊達染) Date: 2^nd month of 1853 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi NOTE: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII played nine different roles in this production.  Two different states of the left-hand sheet are shown.
Actors: Left sheet: Bandô Shûka I as Funakoshi jitsuwa Wakana hime (船越実ハ若菜姫) Right sheet: Arashi Rikan III as Genkai Nadaemon (玄海滝右衛門), Arashi Rikaku II as Washizu Rokurô (鷲津六郎), and Bandô Takesaburô I as Wachizu Shichorô (鷲津七郎) Play: Shiranui monogatari (しらぬひ譚) Date: 2^nd month of 1853 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kakumoto-ya Kinjirô
	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: 2^nd month of 1853 Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi
Actors: Nakamura Fukusuke I as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実, left) and Ichikawa Kozô as Genkurô Yoshitsune (源九郎義経, right) Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (Battle of Ichinotani) Date: 5^th month of 1854 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi

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

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