Sadahiro
(active after 1850)

mameban deluxe diptych.each approx. 8 x 11 cm

Natakmura Utaemon IV (right) as the blind hero Kagekiyo and Nakamura Tamashichi I as his daughter Musume Hitomaru.

After Hirosada's chuban diptych "Megami no Kagekiyo"

Utagawa Kunikazu
(active c.1850-60)

Dai Nihon Rokuju Yo shu
60-Odd Provinces of Japan


a.) The Province of Izumi
right: Nakamura Kanjaku II as Abe no Yasuna, left: Arashi Rikan III as Kuzu-no-Ha (Fox)
Summary of the kabuki play Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami about the fox-woman Kuzu-no-Ha.



b.) The Province of Kazusa
right: Onoe Baikô IV as Otomi, left: Nakamura Tamashichi I as Yosaburô
Deluxe edition


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

Other prints from the same series part I & part II.

Hirosada
(active 1820 - 1860)

Okubi-e
Actor: Nakamura Tamashichi I as Sute Wakamaru
Play: Keisei Chigoga Fuchi
performed: 03/1852
sheet 1 of 2
lit. Ikeda Bunko IV no.441
chuban tate-e


© kotobuki.de

Nakamura Tamashichi I as Sute Wakamura and Arashi Rikaku II as the barber Gengoro in the same play, 03/1852.

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 1820-60)

top
Okubi-e of two not identified actors

bottom
Okubi-e of Nakamura Utaemon IV as the ghost Takechi Samanosuke and
Nakamura Tamashichi I as Sutewakamura in the Kabuki play Keisei Chigo-ga-Fuchi.

1852
each chuban tate-e, 16,5 x 25 cm


A similar print, showing another play, can be found in "Hirosada - Osaka Printmaker", 1984 by The Unversity Art Museum; p.72, number 56