Miscellaneous series of actor prints
Actor prints are known as yakusha-e. These prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for assisting with this section.
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Series:
Three Flourishing Geniuses of the Present Day (Tôsei Sambukutsui, 當盛三福対) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Chiyo migu sakoi no takagaki (千代見草恋中墻) Description:
Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ochiyo
(お千代) Date: 9th
month of 1834 Theater:
Morita Publisher:
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Series:
Three Flourishing Geniuses of the Present Day (Tôsei Sambukutsui, 當盛三福対) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Chiyo migu sakoi no takagaki (千代見草恋中墻) Description:
Sawamura Tosshô I as Hanbei (半兵衛) Date: 9th
month of 1834 Theater: Morita Publisher:
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Series:
Three Flourishing Geniuses of the Present Day (Tôsei Sambukutsui, 當盛三福対) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Chiyo migu sakoi no takagaki (千代見草恋中墻) Description:
Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Kajûrô (加十郎) Date: 9th
month of 1834 Theater:
Morita Publisher:
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Series:
Untitled Robinson:
Not listed Play: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki (双蝶仝曲輪日記) Theater: Ichimura Description:
Nakamura Fukusuke I as Hanaregoma Chokichi (放駒長吉), and Nakamura Kantarô I
as Myokan Date: 6th
month of 1854 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: The
actors are on a sumô referee’s fan |
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Series:
Untitled Robinson:
Not listed Play: Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki (双蝶仝曲輪日記) Theater: Ichimura Description:
Date: 6th
month of 1854 Publisher:
Ôta-ya Takichi NOTE: A
print from the same series as the above, but by Kunisada (Toyokuni
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen, 繪兄弟願の額面) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
A man spilling water and holding a dipper Inset:
Priest Mongaku Shônin
under a waterfall Date: 1846
(censor Murata) Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Another state of the above
print (note the color on the upper portion) |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen, 繪兄弟願の額面) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figures:
A young samurai with a kaishi paper
and a writing brush, his servant is holding a yatate Inset: Date: 1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen, 繪兄弟願の額面) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
Inset: Date: 1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen, 繪兄弟願の額面) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
Inset: Date: 1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series:
Brother Pictures – Desires Taken at Face Value (E-kyôdai negai no
gakumen, 繪兄弟願の額面) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Main figure:
Inset: Date: 1846 Publisher:
Kofunami (小舟三) |
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Series:
Pictures of the Loyal Retainers (義土銘々傳) Number: 3
(㊂) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵) Inset: Senzaki Yagorô Noriyasu (千崎矢五郎則休) Date: 12th
month of 1857 Publisher:
Ogawa Hansuke |
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Series:
Pictures of the Loyal Retainers (義土銘々傳) Number: 5
(㊄) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵) Inset: Kataoka Dengoemon Takafusa (片岡傳五右衛門高房) Date: 12th
month of 1857 Publisher:
Ogawa Hansuke |
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Series:
Pictures of the Loyal Retainers (義土銘々傳) Number: 7
(㊆) Robinson:
Not listed Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵) Inset: Hayami Sôzaemon Mitsutaka (早水総左衛門満尭) Date: 12th
month of 1857 Publisher:
Ogawa Hansuke |
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Title on each sheet: Examples of Valor (Bûyû chigaragusa, 武勇千柄草) Actors:
Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hako-o Maru
(箱王丸, left), Nakamura Utaemon
IV as Benkei (center), Ichikawa Ebizô V as Shakkyô (石橋, right) Play: Shikiutsushi tosa-e no futsutsuka Date: 11th
month of 1847 (censors Theater: Ichimura Publisher:
Iseyo of Owarichô NOTE:
These prints may be considered to be a series or arranged as a triptych |
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“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi
by Basil William Robinson, 1961,
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