- Museum number
- 2001,0215,0.1.1-42
- Description
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Album of 42 carte-de-visite photographs of kabuki actors. Original monochrome albumen prints, mounted in accordion folding album, gold paper title slip pasted to front cover.
Photos on recto (opening from front cover to back cover):
Photo 1: Ichikawa Sadanji in the role Togashi no Saemon, in the play 'Kanjincho'.
Photo 2: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Musashibo Benkei, in the play 'Kanjincho' at the Shintomi-za, June 1887 (Meiji 20).
Photo 3: Nakamura Fukusuke IV in the role of Kesataro, in the play 'Miyajima no Danmari' at the Nakamura-za, September 1887 (Meiji 20)
Photo 4: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Soga no Goro Tokimune, in the play 'Yanone' at the Shintomi-za, November 1882 (Meiji 15).
Photo 5: Onoe Einosuke.
Photo 6: Onoe Kikugoro V in the role of Soga no Juro Sukenari, in the play 'Youchi Soga Susonono Homare' at the Shintomi-za, June 1888 (Meiji 21).
Photo 7: Onoe Umejiro (?).
Photo 8: Ichikawa Danjuro IX, in the role of Tsukiyama Gozen, in the play 'Matsu no Sakae Chiyoda no Shintoku' at the Shintomi-za, June 1878 (Meiji 11).
Photo 9: Ichikawa Danjuro IX, in the role of Tokugawa Ieyasu, in the play 'Sekigahara Kami no Aoiba' at the Shintomi-za, June 1887 (Meiji 20).
Photo 10: Ichikawa Danjuro IX.
Photo 11: Nakamura Fukusuke IV in the role of Kohagi, in the play 'Sakigake Gempei Tsutsuji' at the Shintomi-za, March 1887 (Meiji 20).
Photo 12: Nakamura Fukusuke IV, in the role of Yoshitsune, in the play 'Mibae Genji Michinoku Nikki' at the Shintomi-za, December 1886 (Meiji 19).
Photo 13: Nakamura Fukusuke IV in the role of Yaegaki-hime, in the play 'Koetsu Kodan Tsukue no Nukigaki' at the Kotobuki-za, September 1883 (Meiji 16).
Photo 14: Ichikawa Sadanji.
Photo 15: Onoe Kikugoro V, in the role of Kagatobi Umekichi, in the play 'Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagetobi' at the Chitose-za, March 1886 (Meiji19).
Photo 16: Ichikawa Danjuro IX.
Photo 17: Ichikawa Danjuro IX.
Photo 18: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Oishi Kuranosuke, in the play 'Chushingura Nenju Gyoji' at the Ichimura-za, April 1882 (Meiji 15).
Photo 19: Nakamura Fukusuke IV in the role of Hototogisu, in the play 'Ume no Haru Tateshu no Gosho-zome' at the Chitose-za, February 1887 (Meiji 20).
Photo 20: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Kinoshita Tokichiro Hideyoshi, in the play 'Tanehisago Shinsho Taiheki' at the Ichimura-za, October 1884 (Meiji 17).
Photos on verso (opening from back cover to front cover)
Photo 21: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Watanabe Kazan, in the play 'Yumemonogatari Rosei no Sugata-e' at the Shintomi-za, May 1886 (Meiji 19).
Photo 22: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Soga no Goro Tokimune, in the play 'Youchisoga karibano Akebono' at the Shintomi-za, June 1881 (Meiji 14).
Photo 23: [Not identified]
Photo 24: [Not identified]
Photo 25: Nakamura Juzaburo III.
Photo 26: Ichikawa Yonezo.
Photo 27: Nakamura Shikan IV in the role of Yamamoto Kansuke, in the play 'Honcho Nijushi-ko' at the Ichimura-za, April 1888 (Meiji 21).
Photo 28: Ichikawa Arajiro.
Photo 29: Onoe Kikugorō V in the role of Daiku Rokusaburo, in the play 'Kodaigata Shinzone Yukata' at the Shintomi-za, June 1881 (Meiji 14).
Photo 30: Ichikawa Sadanji.
Photo 31: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Yaegaki-hime, in the play 'Honcho Niju-shi-ko' at the Ichimura-za, April 1888 (Meiji 21).
Photo 32: [Not identified]
Photo 33: Nakamura Fukusuke IV in the role Onna Sendo, in the play 'Ironi naru Momiji no Yubae' at the Saruwaka-za, November 1882 (Meiji 15).
Photo 34: Nakamura Fukusuke IV in the role of Onami, in the play 'Medashi Yanagi Midori no Matsumae' at the Shintomi-za, January 1883 (Meiji 16).
Photo 35: [Not identified]
Photo 36: Bando Kakitsu in the role of Ukiyo Tokei, in the play 'Suibodai Shinshu no Mataroku' at the Chitose-za, October 1885 (Meiji 18).
Photo 37: Onoe Kikunosuke II.
Photo 38: Iwai Hanshiro VIII.
Photo 39: Ichikawa Danjuro IX in the role of Ise no Samuro Yoshimori, in the play 'Mibaegenji Michinoku Nikki' at the Shintomi-za, December 1886 (Meiji 19).
Photo 40: Ichikawa Gonjuro.
Photo 41: Ichikawa Kodanji V.
Photo 42: Ichikawa Shinzo (?).
- Production date
- 1878-88
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.60 centimetres
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Width: 5.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007 10 Oct- 2008 17 Feb, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2014 7 Oct- 2015 28 Apr, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2015 October - 2016 April, London, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present'
2016 Oct - 2017 Apr, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present' (photos 11-12)
2022 October - April 2023, BM Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2001,0215,0.1.1-42
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: Album.87
