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Toyohara Kunichika (1835 - 1900) 国周

Actor Nakamura Shikan
as Kakurega-Mohei
signed : Kunichika ga
Publisher : Maru-ya Jimpachi
Censor : aratame
date : ox

The kabuki play "Kanjinchô"
Ichikawa Sumizo
(Kamei Rokuro)
Ichikawa Gonjuro
(Hitachi-bo Kaison)
Kawarazaki Kunitaro
(Minamoto Yoshitsune)
Ichikawa Danjuro IX
(Musachibo Benkei)
Ichikawa Sadanji
(Togashi Saemon)
Ichikawa Kintaro
signed : Toyohara Kunichika
hitsu
(with toshidama seal)
Publisher : Komiyama Shohei
Carver : Muneoka
date : Meiji (1880-89)

Kanadehon Chushingura
Ichikawa Kotanji
(Enya Hangan)
Ichikawa Sadanji
(Kono Moronao 師 直)
Ichikawa Danjuro
(Momonoi Wakasanosuke)
signed : Toyohara Kunichika ga
Publisher : Fukuda Kumajiro
date : Meiji 28 (1895)
The kabuki play "Kanjinchô", played at the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo
Bando Kakitsu
(Kataoka Hachiro)=
Ichikawa Saruzo
(Kamei Rokuro)=
Ichikawa Sonugoro
Onoe Matsusuke
(Yoshitsune)=
Nakamura Fukusuke
(Benkei)=Ichikawa Danjuro (Togashi Saemon)=
Onoe Kikugoro
signed : Toyohara Kunichika
hitsu
Publisher : Morimoto Junzaburo
Carver : Hori Toku 彫 徳
Date : 1899

Honcho shichi ken onna no uchi
Mirror of seven learned women (Heian era, X-XIe century)
Akazome Emon,
Murasaki Shikibu
Izimu Shikibu,
Kokishibu no Naishi
Daini no Sanmi
Sei Shonagon,
Suo no Naishi
signed :
Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
Publisher : Shuppannin
Tsunashima Kamekichi
Printer : Suriko Maruyama Seikichi
carver : Horiko Kamekichi
Date : Meiji 10-7-12 = 12 July 1877

重仝當五役 Kasanegasane ataru itsu yaku (5 roles ...)
signed : Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
Publisher : ?
Carver : 秀 勝

Ichikawa Danroku (市 川 団 六)
playing OOsaka-ya Gen'emon
(大 坂 屋 源 右 衛 門)
Kataoka Gado (片 岡 我 童)
playing 道 具 屋 甚 三
Nakamura Shikan (中 村 芝 翫)
playing 法 界 坊
Nakamura Fukuro (中 村 福 助)
playing 永 ら く 屋 娘 お く み
signed :
Toyoharu Kunichika Hitsu
with Toshidama seal
Publisher : Kobayashi Tetsujiro
小 林 鉄 次 郎
Date : Meiji 19-2-3 (February 3, 1886)

Ichikawa Danjuro
signed :
Toyoharu Kunichika Hitsu
with Toshidama seal
Publisher :
Yamamura Kanesaburo
Carver : Gin 銀
Date : July 1874
missing print
missing print

Series : 36 enchanting flowers (潤 色 三 十 六 花 撰)
illustrated with poems by the 36 immortal poets
秉 蒹 題
柳 ば し 平 和 泉 小 か つ
Yanagiya Ichiroku (同 柳 屋 一 六)
Hasegawa Kosua (同長谷川小せぃ)
Poem by GonChunagon Atsutada (権中納言敦忠)
signed : Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
Publisher : Takegawa Seikichi
Carver : Gin 銀
Date : Meiji 14 (1881)

Series : Wives of the Tokugawa Shoguns
葵 艸 松 の 裹 苑
Iemitsu wife of shogun 秀忠公 (3)
Signed : Toyohara Kunichika Hitsu
Publisher : Takekawa Seikichi 武川清吉
Carver : Ginjiro 銀 治 郎
Date : Meiji 12 (1879)

Mukashi-banashi Homare Soga
昔噺誉曽我
played at the Nakamura in 1864-4
Iwai Shijaku II as
Kamegane no Oshio
Kawarazaki Gonjuro as
Banzaemon no Goro
Bando Hikosaburo V as
Juro Sanza
Signed : Kunichika ga
(with toshidama seal)
Kunichika ga
(with toshidama seal)
Publisher : Ota-ya Takichi Ota-ya Takichi
Censor : aratame aratame
Carver : Tashichi
Date : rat 4 (1864 april) rat 4 (1864 april)
Another triptych of the play with the same actors playing the same role
(from Waseda University Theatre Museum)