Miscellaneous fan prints of actors,
Part II
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Description: Actors as a samurai and his retainer Date: 1854 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Description: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平), Bandô Shiuka I as Koshimoto Okaru (こし元おかる), and Nakayama
Bungorô II as Sagizaka Bannai (鷺坂伴内) in act four
of Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 1851 Publisher: Ise-ya Ichiemon I am grateful to Robert Pryor for information about this print. |
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Description: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Nagoya Kosanza (名古屋小山三) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tarosaku (太郎作) Play: Mono Gusataro
(物草太郎作手管歌当) Date: 3rd
month of 1841 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Izuzen |
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Description: Actor Date: 1832 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Description: Tadanobu and
Shizuka Gozen with Kakuhan
in the distance from the play Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (義経千本桜) Date: c. 1837 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Description: Date: 1846-1852 Publisher: Echigo-ya Chohachi |
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Description: Date: 5th
month of 1853 Publisher: Echigo-ya Chohachi |
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Description: Actor
Sawamura Tochisho I Date: 1840 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Description: In front of
the Abura-ya tea house the Iwai Kumesaburô
Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃) Date: 4th
month of 1852 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei |
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Description: Actors Segawa
Michinosuke II as the masseuse (amma) Chobokure
(left) and Sawamura Tosshô I as Hanamizukuri
(right) Play: Somenobori ayame no irozashi (染幟菖蒲の彩色) Theater: Kawarasaki Date: 5th
month of 1832 Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Actors: Onoe Kikugorô Play: Go chumon shusu no Obiya (御注文繻子帯屋) Date: 3rd
month of 1840 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Actor: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII in his dressing room Date: c. 1850 Publisher: No seal Text: Cosmetic Store of Matsuda
Mutsu Daijô on Yokodôri
in Owarichô itchôme (Owarichô itchôme Yokodôri Aburaya Matsuda Mutsu Daijô,
尾張町壹町目横通油店) NOTE: This is a key block print for
an advertising print (hikifuda). It is an impression pulled from the first
woodblock made by a carver from the artist’s original drawing. The artist would write instructions for
each color on a separate key block print, and the woodblock for each color
was cut using one of these as a guide.
Registration marks (kento) are found in the left lower corner and on the
bottom. Kento are cut in each woodblock, so that the paper can be
properly aligned on each woodblock during printing. In addition to being a guide for
carving the color woodblocks, the key block was also used to apply black ink
(usually) in the printing process. |
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Description: Noh actor with the mask of the dragon
king on a balcony Date: c. 1845 Seal: Hayashi |
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Description: Nakamura Tsuruzô I as Shigahei (志賀平, left), Nakamura Fukusuke I as Chorohei (ちょろ平, right), and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as the monkey Play: Shugen Utsubo
zaru (祝言靭猿曳) Date: 3rd
month of 1855 (print is dated 4th month of 1855) Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Ise-ya Ichiemon I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and
information. |
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Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Takano Moronao (left) and Onoe Baikô IV as Kahoyo gozen (right) Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 6th
month of 1854 (print is dated 5th month of 1854) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô |
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Series: Travelling
Under the Umbrella of Love (Michiyuki ai ai gasa, 道行逢合傘) Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Kosan the bathhouse girl and Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Omatsuri Kingorô
Play: Chikai Musubi ukina
no Tategaku (盟結艶立額) Date: 9th
month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: |
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Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Naosuke (left), Onoe Kikugorô
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) Date: 3rd
month of 1833 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô |
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Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Kasugaya Tokijirô
(春日屋 時次郎, on top),
Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as the kamuro
Midori (禿 みどり, bottom left),
Bandô Kichiya as the kamuro
Katsumi (禿 かつみ, bottom
center), and Bandô Shûka
I as Yamanaya Urasato (山名屋 浦里, bottom right) Play: Akegarasu Hana no Nureginu
(明烏花濡衣) Date: 2nd
month of 1851 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ta (phonetic
reading of 太) NOTE: “kamuro” (禿 or かむろ) is sometimes
politely defined as a courtesan’s child-servant, but preadolescent apprentice
is a more correct translation. |
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Actors: Seki Sanjûrô II as Fuwa Banzaemon (不波伴左衛門, left) and Nakamura
Shikan II as Nagoya Sanzo (名古屋山三, right) Play: Sakura doki hana no Yoshiwara (Cherry Blossom Time in the
Yoshiwara, 桜時花吉原) Date: 3rd
month of 1833 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô |
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Actors: Play: Possibly Yoshitsune Senbon zakura Date: 4th
month of 1853 Theater: Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke |
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Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Sakurahime (桜姫) and Nakamura
Fukusuke I as Ansaki Motome (庵崎求女, inset) Play: Hana butai banjaku Soga (花舞台団岩曽我) Date: 2nd
month of 1855 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô |
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Actors: Iwai Tojaku I (岩井杜若, left) and
Nakamura Shikan II (中村芝翫, right) Play: Goban
Tadanobu Yuki no Kuroshiro (碁盤忠信雪黒白, The Black and
White Snow of Tadanobu’s Go Board) Date: 11th month of 1832 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô NOTE: “Black and white snow” refers to the flying black
and white stones of Tadanobu’s final fight, using a go board as a
weapon. |
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Series: Modern Men (Imayo otoko Sugata, 今世男姿) Actor: Play: Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Publisher: Ise-ya Soemon |
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Title: The Floating World (Ukiyo fu, 振世浮) Actor: Probably
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Banzui
Chobei (left) and Bandô
Shuka I (right) Play: Kanadehon
Chûshingura Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Publisher: Ise-ya Ichiemon (辻) |
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Description: Sawamura Tosshô I as wrestler Nuregami Chôgorô (濡髪長五郎, left) and
Arashi Kichisabrurô III as the wrestler Hanaregoma Chôkichi (放駒蝶吉, right) Play: Futatsu
chôchô kuruwa nikki (双蝶仝曲輪日記, Diary of Two Butterflies in the Pleasure Quarters) Date: 8th month of 1842 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô |
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Actors: Arashi Rikan Play: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki Date: 2nd
month of 1852 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Nuregami Chôgorô (濡髪長五郎, left) and Arashi Rikan Play: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki Date: The play was
performed in the 2nd month of 1852, but the print bears the
combined date seal and aratame censor’s seal
for the 3rd month of 1852 Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: None |
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