Miscellaneous fan prints of actors,

Part III

 

 

Series: Premiere Season (Mukashi gatari uguisuzuka, 昔語黄鳥墳)

Actor: Sawamura Tosshô I

Play: Mukashi gatari uguisu zuka (昔語黄鳥墳)

Date: 5th month of 1832

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher:

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information.

This print by Sadahide is obviously from the same series as the preceding Kuniyoshi print.

Series: Premiere Season (Mukashi gatari uguisuzuka, 昔語黄鳥墳)

Actor: Nakamura Shikan II

Play: Yayoi no hana Asakusa matsuri (弥生の花浅草祭)

Date: 3rd month of 1832

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image and information. 

Actor: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Komachi Hime (小町姫), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Ôtomo no Kuronushi (大伴の黒主), and Ichikawa Kuzô II as Chunagon Munesada (中納言宗貞)

Play: Probably Tsumoru koi yukino seki no to (積恋雪関扉)

Date: 11th month of 1846 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ta (phonetic reading of太)

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actor: Bandô Shûka I as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋あけ巻, left), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六, center), and Ichikawa Ebizô V (right)

Play: Hana no Yukitakeda no Kachidoki (花眺雪武田勝凱)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Ta (phonetic reading of太)

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Title: Summer Night Scene (Natsunoyo geshiki, 夏の夜げしき)

Actor: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII probably serving Japanese mochi balls (shiratama)

Play: 

Date: c. 1852

Theater:

Publisher:

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actor: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Yoshidaya nyôbô (吉田屋女房) and Kataoka Gadô II as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Probably Kuruwa bunshô

Date: 3rd month of 1854

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Hanmoto ta

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Description: Drawing of actor Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Ashikaga Yorikane

Play: Date zensei sakura no iromaku (伊達旭盛桜彩幕)

Date: 4th month of 1849

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: No seal 

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image.

Actor: Bandô Shûka I as onna Narukami (女鳴神)

Play: Kumo no uwasa onna Narukami (雲艶女鳴神)

Date: 6th month of 1854 (the print is dated the 5th month of 1854)

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Senzaburô

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actor: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八) and Ichikawa Ebizô V as Banzui Chobei (幡隨長兵衛),

Play: Kakitsubata Tamuke no Hanakawado (杜若手向花川戸)

Date: 3rd month of 1850 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ta (phonetic reading of太)

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Series: Flowers in the Cool of the Evening (Ryôkô yoru hana, 涼好夜花)

Actor:

Play: 

Date: c. 1837-1842

Theater:

Publisher: No seal

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Description: A keyblock print of actors Nakamura Utaemon IV as Otokichi and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Otomatsu

Play: Fude Hajime Soga no fukubiki (筆始曽我福贔屓)

Date: 1st month of 1841

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

Drawing for a fan print of an actor with a supernatural cat

Actor: Arashi Rikaku II as Sambasô (三番叟, left), Bandô Shûka I as Okina (翁, center), and Bandô Takesaburô I as Chitose (千歳, right)

Play: Yanagi no Ito Hikuya Gohiiki 柳糸引御摂

Date: 2nd month of 1853 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu)

Theater: Kawarazaki

Publisher: Hanmoto ta

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actor: Probably Nakamura Utaemon IV as Hidari Jingorô and Onoe Baikô IV as Oyama Ningyô (or Umegae), c.1847-50.jpg,

Play: Probably Fukujukai muryô denki (福聚海駒量伝記)

Date: 4th month of 1847 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actor: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Ryôshi Namishichi (漁師浪七, foreground), Onoe Kikujirô II as Terute hime (てるて姫, female in boat) and Arashi Otohachi III as Rentenbô (運天坊, male in boat)

Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)

Date: 4th month of 1851 (censors Kinugasa and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kojima-ya Jûbei

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actor: Onoe Baikô IV as the wet nurse Masaoka no tsubone and isshi (child) Senmatsu

Play: Date zensei sakura no iromaku (伊達旭盛桜彩幕)

Date: 4th month of 1849 (censors Mera and Murata)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei

 

NOTE: This is a keyblock print.  I am grateful to Robert Pryor for the image. 

Actor: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Hama no masago tsukinu gohiiki (浜真砂長久御摂)

Date: 3rd month of 1851 (censors Hama and Magome)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Ta (phonetic reading of太)

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actor: Bandô Shuka I as Danshichi Okaji (團七お梶)

Play: Shinzô tsurifune kidan (新造艣奇談)

Date: 5th month of 1852 (censors Kinugasa and Murata)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Hanmoto ta

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. 

Actors: Ichkawa Danjûrô VIII as Kinugawa Tanziô (絹川谷蔵) and Onoe Kikujirô II as Kasane (かさね)

Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry and Okini Kabuki)

Date: 3rd month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Iba-ya Kyûbei 

Actors: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右工門) and an unidentified actor as his son Goroichi (一子五郎市)

Play: Hama no masago tsukinu gohiiki (浜真砂長久御摂)

Date: 3rd month of 1851

Theater: Kawarasaki

Publisher: Kojima-ya Jûbei

Actors: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Oiwa’s ghost (お岩のぼうこん, left) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Tamiya Iemon (神谷仁右工門, male role)

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

Date: 9th month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura)

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kojima-ya Jûbei

 

I am grateful to Barascud Nicolas for this image.

Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Kano Shirojirô Motonobu (狩野四郎次郎元信, left) and Bandô Shûka I as Shogen’s daughter Omitsu

Play: Mukashigatari inazuma zoshi (昔語稲妻帖)

Date: 3rd month of 1848

Theater: Ichimura

Publisher: Kojima-ya Jûbei

 

I am grateful to Barascud Nicolas for this image.

Actors: Iwai Kumesaburô III as Tamiya musume Oteru (田宮娘おてる, left) and Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Moriguchi Kamejirô (森口亀次郎, right)

Play: Hanano homare chikai no tamada suki (花高誉誓仰環襷)

Date: 5th month of 1849 (censors Kunugasa and Yoshimura)

Theater: Nakamura

Publisher: Kojima-ya Jûbei

 

I am grateful to Barascud Nicolas for this image.

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