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: Actors: Seki Sanjûrô II (standing) and Iwai Hanshirô V or VI in female role Robinson: Not listed Play: Date: c. 1833 Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tobei |
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Series: Spring
Scenery... (春景…) Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as a
courtesan Robinson: Not listed Play: Date: c. 1841-1842 Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya
Shôzô I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for this image. |
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Series: Actors: Robinson: Not listed Play: Date: 1846-1848
(censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Publisher: Takano-ya Tomoemon NOTE: This print is signed “By special request of the publisher, Kuniyoshi ga”
(Shigen no ô ju,
Kuniyoshi ga, 梓え乃應需 國芳 画) |
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 |
“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. CLICK
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