Miscellaneous double and triple bust portraits of actors,

Part II

	Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Ukiyo Matahei and Onoe Kikujirô II as his wife Otoku Play: Keisei Hangonkô (けいせい反魂香) Date: 10^th month of 1848 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: Ukiyo Matahei is a kabuki character loosely based on Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650), a Tosa School artist who was credited with founding ukiyo-e. Today most scholars give this credit to the Kanbun Master.
	Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yoshikado and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kikyo-no-mae Play: Azuma dairi hana mo Yoshikado (東都内裡花能門) Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Horimasa
	I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this preparatory drawing for the above print.
	Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yamauba and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Kaidômaru (Kintoki) Play: Takigi o yukima no Ichikawa (薪荷雪間の市川) Date: 11^th month of 1848 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Horimasa I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
	Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Nurse Otsuji and Ichikawa Saizaro (or Saizoro) as the child Tamiya Botaro Play: Hanano homare chikai no tamada suki Date: 5^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô
	Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助, top) and Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力彌) Play: Kanedon Chûshingura Date: 7^th month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô
	Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Mikuni Kojorô (三国小女郎), Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the cormorant fisherman (ukai) Kujûrô (鵜飼九十郎), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛) Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産) Date: 8^th month of 1849 Theater: Karawazaki Publisher: No seal NOTE:This print appears to have been made by partially recarving the woodblocks for the preceding print. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
	Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛), as Rokuyata (六弥太), as Kagekiyo (景清), as Shigehira (重衡), and in street clothes Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産) Description: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII in various roles he played in Ichinotani mushae no iezuto Date: 8^th month of 1849 Theater: Karawazaki Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô
	Actors: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Adoya and Nakamura Utaemon IV as the priest Ten-nichi-bo 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: Enshû-ya Hikobei
	Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Gotobei (五斗兵衛) and Bandô Shuka I as his wife Oseki (女房おせき) Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoe-jô (義経腰越状, Yoshitsune’s Letter from Koshigoe) Date: 9^th month of 1849 Publisher: Mikawa-ya Tetsugorô
	Actors: Ichilawa Danjûrô VIII as Heigawara Jirozô (平瓦次郎蔵, top) and Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Akogi no Heiji (阿古木 平治) Play: Seishu Akogi gaura Date: 10^th month of 1849 Publisher: Mikawa-ya Tetsugorô
	Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as O-Miwa (おみわ) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as the shop apprentice Netarô (ね太郎) Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 11^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	Actors: Unidentified actors as Omiwa (お三輪), the sake merchant’s daughter, with two malicious and homely ladies-in-waiting at the palace of Soga Iruka Play: Imoseyama onna teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓, Imoseyama, an Example of Womanly Virtue) Date: 11^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Ôta-ya Takichi
	Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Amakawaya Gihei (天川屋儀平) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Theater: Nakamura Date: 11^th month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe) Publisher: Maru-Han
	Actors: Kumesaburô III as Hisamatsu (でつち 久松) and also as daughter Osome (娘 於そめ) Play: Osome Hisamatsu ukina Yomiuri (お染久松色読販, The Scandalous Love of Osome and Hisamatsu) Date: 1^st month of 1850 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô
	Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Sadasumi tsuma Sodehagi (貞住妻袖萩) and Ichikawa Saizaburô as daughter Okimi (娘おきみ) Play: Ôshû Adachi-ga-hara (奥州安達原) Date: 1^st month of 1850 Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
	Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実) fighting with Ichikawa Saruzô I as mukan taifu Atsumori (無官の太夫敦盛) Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記) Date: 3^rd month of 1850 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Kawarazak Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei
	Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Hige no Ikyu (髭の意休, top), Bandô Shuka I as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦や揚巻, middle), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸の助六, bottom) Play: Sukeroku kuruwa no hanamidoki (助六廓の花見時)　 Date: 3^rd month of 1850 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this image.
	Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Kuzunoha kitsune (くづの葉 狐) and an unidentified actor as her only child (isshi dôji, 一子童子) Play: Ashiya dauman ochi kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑) Date: 5^th month of 1850 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei
Left sheet: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Toneri Matsuômaru (松王丸), a retainer of Shibei Right sheet: Onoe Baikô IV as Matsuô’s wife Chiyo (松王女房千代) and Morita Kanya XI as the farmer Shiratayû (白太夫), father of Matsuô Play: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) Date: 7^th month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô
	Actors: The lovers Bandô Shuka I as Kosan the bathhouse girl (額の小三) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Omatsuri Kingorô (お祭り金五郎) Play: Chikai Musubi ukina no Tategaku (盟結艶立額) performed at the Nakamura theater Date: 9^th month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe with shita-uri seal) Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô NOTE: The horse on top is signed by Kuniyoshi’s daughter, Yoshitori. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for information about this print.
	Another state of the above design
	Actors: The lovers Bandô Shuka I as Kosan the bathhouse girl (額の小三) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Omatsuri Kingorô (お祭り金五郎) Play: Chikai Musubi ukina no Tategaku (盟結艶立額) performed at the Nakamura theater Date: 9^th month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe with shita-uri seal) Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô NOTE: The horse on top is signed by Kuniyoshi’s daughter, Yoshitori. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for information about this print.
	Another state of the above design with the actor’s names
Actors: Left sheet: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Sakuramaru (桜丸) Right sheet: Seki Sanjûrô III as Toneri Umeomaru (梅王丸, top) 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
	Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as Senzai (千歳, top) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Sanbasô (三番叟, bottom) Play: A Sambasô dance Date: 1850 (censors Mera and Murata with shita-uri seal) Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei

“Robinson” refers to listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

CLICK HERE TO GO TO PART III