Miscellaneous horizontal actor prints,

Part II

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Momoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助, left), Nakamura Tsuruzô as Sagisaki Bannai (鷺坂伴内) center), and Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Ko no Moronao (高野師直, right)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7^th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Izutsu-ya Shôkichi

NOTE: The print is numbered seven within a circle (㊆).

An alternate state of the above design

Another state with the actors’ names added

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力弥) and Sawamura Chojurô V as Rikiya’s father Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助, holding knife)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura

Date: 7^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

This state is lacking the actors’ names and is probably from an earlier performance than the preceding image. It should be noted that the faces of some of the actors are different.

Actors: Onoe Baikô IV as Okaru (おかる, left) imploring Sawamura Chojurô V as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助, standing) with Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Kudayû hiding

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura

Date: 7^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Hayano Kanpei (left, 早野勘平) and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Ono Sadakurô (right, 斧定九郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)

Date: 7^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

NOTE: In Act V of Kanadehon Chûshingura, Hayano Kanpei shoots Ono Sadakurô by a river.

This print is identical to the previous print, except that the names of the actors were added.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Okabe no Rokuyata (岡部の六弥太, left), Ichikawa Gangyoku as Ubare no Tagohei (center), and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Satsuma Tadanori (right)

Play: Ichinotani mushae no iezuto (一谷武者画土産)

Date: 8^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

An alternate state with the actors’ names added

Actors: Ichikawa Utaemon IV as Honchomaru Tsunagorô (飜蝶綱五郎, left), Bandô Shûka I as Koito (小糸, woman), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Kambara Sashichi (狭七, right)

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

Date: 8^th month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

Actors: Onoe Kikujirô II as the attendant of the geisha Sangoku (left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamaya Shinbei (玉屋新兵衛), Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Demura Shinbei, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the cormorant fisherman Ukai Kujûrô (玉屋新兵衛)

Play: Tsuki no demura tsuyu no tamaya (月出村白露玉屋)

Date: 8^th month of 1849

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke

Another state with the actors’ names added

Actors: Bandô Hikosaburô IV as Kisanta (鬼三太), Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼), and Onoe Kikujirô II as Princess Minaduru (皆鶴姫)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen sanryaku no maki (鬼一法眼三略巻, Kiichi Hogen’s Book of Strategy)

Date: 9^th month of 1850 (censors Kinugasa and Watanabe)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Jô-Shô

Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Sanbasô (三番叟, left) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Senzai (千歳, right)

Play: A Sambasô dance

Date: 1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi

Actors: Ichimura Takenojô V as Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時宗, top left), Ichikawa Kuzô II as Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成, bottom left), Nakamura Fukusuke I as Koabayashi Asahina (小林の朝比奈, center right), and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kudo Saemon Suketsune (工藤左衛門祐経, right)

Play: Hôraisan Yotsugi Soga (蓬莱山世嗣曽我)

Date: 1^st month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Wo (phonetic reading of ヲ)

Another state

Actors: Ichimura Takenojô V as Utai (謡), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Fue (笛), Arashi Kishisaburô III as Otsuzumi (大鼓), Bandô Shûka I as Taiko (太鼓), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Kotsuzumi (小鼓)

Play: Jidai Sewa Hina no Danmaku (古今ひなの段幕)

Date: 2^nd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Hamada-ya Tokubei

Another state of the above design

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門, top) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Hisayoshi (真柴久吉, bottom)

Play: Hama no masago tsukinu gohiiki (浜真砂幾久御摂)

Date: 3^rd month of 1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Daikoku-ya

NOTE: This is a diptych composed of two horizontal ôban sheets.

Actors: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Ôwashi Bungo (大わし文吾), Arashi Koroku I as Kanpei’s mother Okaya, Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Hara Goemon

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura

Date: 3^rd month of 1851 (censors Watanabe and Mera with shita-uri seal)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

NOTE: This print was repurposed for a shini-e (memorial print) of Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII:

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as the greengrocer Yao-ya’s daughter Oshichi (Yaoya musume Oshichi, 八百屋娘お七) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Dozaemon Denkichi (土左衛門伝吉)

Play: Koi moyô furisode myoto (恋模様振袖妹背)

Date: 5^th month of 1851

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

NOTE: This print is approximately 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 centimeters), a size known as chûban

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Asakura Murashôya Tôgo (left) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Tôgo’s wife (nyôbô) Omine (女房おミね, right), with child actors as Sannosuke, Tôtarô, and Kunimatsu

Play: Higashiyama Sakura sôshi (東山桜荘子, The Higashiyama Storybook)

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

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô

Actors: Bandô Shuka I as Inuzuka Shino (犬塚信の, left) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Inugai Genapachi (犬飼現八, right) on the roof of Horyukaku Temple

Play: Satomi hakkenden (History of the Eight Dogs of Satomi, 里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Keijirô

Actors: Bandô Shûka I as Inuzuka Shinnô (犬塚信野, left) and Seki Sanjûrô III as Inushika Bansaku (犬塚番作, right)

Play: Satomi hakkenden (里見八犬伝)

Date: 1^st month of 1852 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Keijirô

Actors: Sawamura Sojûrô V as Arajiro Yoshizumi (荒二郎義澄), Iwai Kumesaburo III as Yahazu no Okaji (矢筈のお梶), and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Sadakiyo shinno (貞清親王)

Play: Shibaraku (芝楽) or a play based on Shibaraku

Date: 1849-1851 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater:

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Another state without purple

Actors: Unidentified actors as Konami kneeling with Rikiya standing before a screen

Play: Kanadehon Chushingura, Act II in Yoichibei’s home

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