Miscellaneous harimaze, Part II

Series title: A Hundred Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相)

Robinson: 200

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Date: 6^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Onoe Baikô IV as Umegae (梅ヶ枝)	Nakamura Utaemon IV as Asama Saemon (浅間左衛門)
Bandô Shûka I as Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸)	Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Chienai (知恵内)
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Matsuwaka Maru no Kagamon (松若丸)	Onoe Kikujirô II as Oren (おれん)

Series title: A Hundred Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相)

Robinson: 200

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Date: 6^th month of 1847 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Onoe Kikugorô III as magician Nikki Danjô (仁木)	Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Menosuke (女之助)
Bandô Shûka I as courtesan Takao (高尾)	Ichikawa Kuzô II as Arashi Gorô Mohei (茂兵衛)
Unidentified actor as Yazama Jûtarô (十太郎)	Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII the hunter Kanpei with a rifle (かん平)

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Date: 8^th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata with shita-uri seal)

Iwai Kumesaburô III as Mitsuuji (光氏)	Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Mura Togô (浅倉村当吾)	Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Yoshihisa (義尚)
Nakayama Ichizô I as Yamana Sôzen (山名宗全)	Onoe Kikujirô II as Fuji no kata (藤の方)	Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togô (當吾)
Ichikawa Hirogorô as hyakushô Sakubei (百性作兵へ)	Bandô Takesaburô I as Ishidô Unemenosuke (石堂采女之介)	Iwai Kumesaburô III as Katsuragi (桂木)

NOTE: These roles are from the play Higashiyama sakura zôshi performed at the Nakamura Theater in the 8^th month of 1851. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information.

Publisher: Kojimachi Sakai-han (Sakai of Kojimachi, 麹町酒井板) printed in top margin

Date: 3^rd month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Katsumoto (かつ元)	Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as magician Nikki Danjô (仁木だん正)	Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Arajishi Otokonosuke (男之助)
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Dotetsu (道てつ)	Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as wrestler Kinugawa Tanizô (谷蔵)	Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yorikane (頼かね)
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kojo	Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Benkei (弁慶)	Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Yashio (八汐)

NOTE: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII assumed all these roles in the play Date kurabe Okuni kabuki, which was performed in the Kawarazaki Theater in the 3^rd month of 1849. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information.

Series title: Untitled series of one actor in two different roles

Robinson: Not listed

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Left: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (飜蝶丸綱五郎)

Right: Nakamura Utaemon IV as the monk Tenjitsubo (法作後ニ天日坊)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Series title: Untitled series of one actor in two different roles

Robinson: Not listed

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Left: Onoe Kikujirô II as Lady Akoya (阿古屋後ニ小糸)

Right: Onoe Kikujirô II as Shirayufu (白夕)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Series title: Untitled series of one actor in two different roles

Robinson: Not listed

Play: Kotoba no hana momiji no Yozakari (詞花紅成盛)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Ichimura

Left: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Uzu Sashichi (員佐七)

Right: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Asa-maru who later becomes Kagekiyo (阿沙丸後ニ景清)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Series title: Untitled

Robinson: Not listed

Play: Manete Mimasu yotsuya no kikigaki (当三升四谷聞書, Ghost stories at Yotsuya)

Date: 9^th month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Left: Bandô Shûka I as Hanagasumi no Ohide (花売のおひで)

Center: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Yaegiri

Right: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tabakoya Genshichi (煙草屋源七)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Series title: Untitled

Robinson: Not listed

Date: 1847-1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa)

Left: Unidentified actor as Sawai Matagorô (沢井股五郎)

Center: Onoe Baikô IV as Heisaku musume oyone (daughter of Heisaku, 郎 平作娘およね)

Right: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Gofukuya Jûbei (呉服屋十兵衛)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Robinson: Not listed

Description: Four actors and a nature study

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

Date: c. 1830

Format: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25 centimeters)

Series title: A Hundred Select Physiognomies (Mitate hyaku-nin-sô, 見立百人相)

Robinson: Same title as 200

Description: Eight actors in costume

Date: 1846-1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi

Format: Ôban (about 10 by 14 inches or 25 by 36 centimeters)

Triptych title: Screen with the Six Branches of Famous Painting (Meiga rokku byobu, 名画六枚屏風)

Description: The kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII and Bandô Shuka I (right), Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (center), and Sawamura Sojûrô V, Ichihawa Kuzô II, and Onoe Baikô IV (left)

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô

Date: 1847-1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Title: None

Description: The seven gods of good luck (Shichifukujin, 七福神) imitating the five annual festivals.

Size: Horizontal double ôban 15 by 20 5/16 in. (38.1 x 51.6 cm)

Publisher: Iga-ya Kan'emon

Date: 19832-1833

NOTE: This surimono bears the signatures of 10 different artists. Only Bishamonten, in the bottom center, is signed by Kuniyoshi.

Harimaze triptych portraying scenes from the kabuki play Kanadehon Chûshingura

Date: 5^th month of 1854

Publisher: Mita-ya Kihachi

Title: Viewed as a Set of Mon (Mitate mon zukushi, 見立もんつくし)

Description: Scenes from various kabuki plays

Size: A diptych with each sheet about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

Publisher: Ise-ya Kanekichi

Date: 4^th month of 1852

Title: Fashionable Living Dolls (Fûryû iki ningyô, 風流生人形)

Description: Ôban triptych of scenes of lifelike dolls

Size: Each sheet about 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

Publisher: Ômi-ya Kyûjirô

Date: 2^nd month of 1856

For comparison, an oil on canvas painting ‘I and My Friends’ by contemporary Vietnamese artist Le Quang Ha, 1995-1997

“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961).

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