• Central panel of a triptych of the Naritasan Festival (<i>Naritasan kaichō sankei gunshū no zu</i> - 成田山開帳参詣群集図) with Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Onoe Kikugorō IV and Bandō Takesaburō II
Central panel of a triptych of the Naritasan Festival (<i>Naritasan kaichō sankei gunshū no zu</i> - 成田山開帳参詣群集図) with Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Onoe Kikugorō IV and Bandō Takesaburō II
Central panel of a triptych of the Naritasan Festival (<i>Naritasan kaichō sankei gunshū no zu</i> - 成田山開帳参詣群集図) with Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Onoe Kikugorō IV and Bandō Takesaburō II
Central panel of a triptych of the Naritasan Festival (<i>Naritasan kaichō sankei gunshū no zu</i> - 成田山開帳参詣群集図) with Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Onoe Kikugorō IV and Bandō Takesaburō II

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Central panel of a triptych of the Naritasan Festival (Naritasan kaichō sankei gunshū no zu - 成田山開帳参詣群集図) with Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Onoe Kikugorō IV and Bandō Takesaburō II

Print


02/1856
9.875 in x 14.25 in (Overall dimensions) color woodblock print
Signed: Toyokuni ga (豊国画)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirō (Marks 063 - seal 21-026)
Censor seal: aratame
Date seal: 1856/2
Edo-Tokyo Museum - the full triptych
Tokyo Metropolitan Library - the full triptych
Waseda University - the same panel
Waseda University - the right panel with the title cartouche
Waseda University - the left panel
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - the full triptych
The Funabashi-shi Western Library - the full triptych
National Museums of Scotland - right-hand panel
National Museums of Scotland - center panel
National Museums of Scotland - left-hand panel Illustrated in color on pages 74-75 in Kabuki Theatre Prints by Rosina Buckland, National Museums of Scotland, 2013. On page 28 Buckland wrote: "Naritasan Shinshōji is a large Buddhist temple located in the town of Narita, to the north-east of Tokyo. Founded in 940 to commemorate a military victory, it received increased patronage during the Tokugawa period. Perhaps its most famous patron was the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjūrō I, who had a particular devotion to the temple's deity, Fudō Myō-ō (the Immovable Wisdom King). Following him, the temple received support from the Ichikawa Danjūrō lineage and it remains a centre of worship and a popular tourist attraction today."

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The actors in this panel represent Ichikawa Kodanji IV, Onoe Kikugorō IV and Bandō Takesaburō II. Buckland in the Scottish catalogue notes the excitement of the other visitors to the festival when they spot famous figures from the stage.

The actors in the right-hand panel of this triptych - missing here - were Kataoka Gado II, Sawamura Tosshō II, Iwai Kumesaburō III, Nakamura Fukusuke I, Ichikawa Hirogorō I and Ichikawa Ichizō III.

According to Kabuki21 we know absolutely nothing about Bandō Takesaburō II.
Fujiokaya Keijirō (藤岡屋慶次郎) (publisher)
actor prints (yakusha-e - 役者絵) (genre)
Ichikawa Kodanji IV (四代目市川小団次: spring 1844 to 5/1866) (actor)
Historical - Social - Ephemera (genre)
Onoe Kikugorō IV (四代目尾上菊五郎: from 9/1855 to 6/1860) (actor)