Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Signature: Hirosada
Actor / roles: (left) Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right) Ichikawa Ebizo V as Ono no Imoko
Play: Shitenoji Garan Kagami performed at the Naka Theatre 3/1849
Publisher: ?
Foramt: chuban diptych

Sadahiro
(active after 1850)

Jitsukawa Enzaburô I in different roles.

Publisher: Kinkadō
mameban, each approx. 8 x 11 cm

Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Actors / roles (left to right): Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Nagoya Sanza, Nakamura Utaemon IV as Fuwa Banzaemon and Mimasu Daigorô IV as Sasaki Kurando
Play: Act 4 of Inazuma Sôshi / Satomoyô Kabuki no Inazuma performed 9/1850 (Kaei 3) at the Naka Theater
Publisher: Kawaoto
Dimension: vertical chuban triptych
Lit.: Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 106; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #313

Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Signature: Hirosada
Publisher: Konishi
Date: c.1850
Actors / roles: l. Jitsukawa Enzaburo I as Sakumaru, r. Kataoka Gado II as Umeomaru
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
Titel: Chuko-den / A Tale of Loyalty and Filial Piety
Dimension: chuban triptyych, far right sheet missing
Ikeda Bunko IV, no. 227
You can find a summary of the play here:
http://www.kabuki21.com/sdtk.php

The complete triptych. Thanks to G.J. for the better picture.





Signature: Hirosada
Publisher: Kinkodo
Date: c.1850
Actor: Jitsukawa Enzaburo I as Inanoya Hambe
Play: Sakura Butai Omi Hakkai performed at Naka Theatre 3/1849
Titel: untitled Kabuki print
Dimension: chuban
Ikeda Bunko IV, no. 163

Utagawa Kunikazu
(active c.1850-60)

Dai Nihon Rokuju Yo shu
60-Odd Provinces of Japan


a.) The Province of Dewa
right: Ichikawa Ebizô V as Benkei, left: Asao Daikichi I as Yoshitsune



b.) The Province of Iyo.
right. Arashi Kichisaburô III as Benkei, left: Onoe Kikujirô II as Owasa



c.) The Province of Iga
The Samurai Masaemon is blocking the spear of Honda Naiki with one arm.
right: Nakamura Komanosuke V as Honda Naiki, left: Arashi Kichisaburô III as Masaemon
Scene from the legend Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku.


d.) The Province of Buzen
right: Arashi Kishisaburo III Sasahara Samonnosuke, left: Jitsukawa Enzaburo I as Sasahara Hayato, Play: Koi Momiji Ogura no Shikishi


Signature: Kunikazu
Publisher: Ishikawaya Wasuke (Ishiwa)
Dated : c. 1861
chuban yoko-e, 24,4 x 18,4 cm
Ikeda Bunko IV

Hirosada
(active 1820-60)

Attributed to be a scene of the Kabuki play "Hatsuebisu Fukuyatokuwaka"

(right to left) Jitsukawa Enzaburo I as Mukadeya Kingoro, Nakamura Tamashichi I as the apprentice Komakichi and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Tokuwaka Saizo.
Performed at the Naka Theater in the first month 1851.

Publisher: Kinkado
Date: 1851
double chuban tate-e

Thanks to J.V. for identifying the actors and the play.

Hirosada
(active c. 1820 - 60)

Jitsukawa Ensaburo I as Kizu Kansuke

Kabuki play Sao no uta kizugawa hakkei
performed at Naka theatre, 8/1849
Centre sheet of a triptych
chuban tate-e approx. 17 x 25 cm



Thanks for the information and the foto of the triptych to J.V.
Also to be found in "Hirosada - Osaka Printmaker", 1984 by The Unversity Art Museum
p.18 fig.6
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