Hello, trying to identify the actor and role from this triptych. Thank you in advance for a any pointers or help. 
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Hello, trying to identify the actor and role from this triptych. Thank you in advance for a any pointers or help.
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Your print is surely part of a multi panel composition see Kabuki resume of play
https://www.kabuki21.com/ids.php
Artist's signature
Ichiyosai Toyokuni ga 一陽斎豊国画
http://www.kunisada.de/Liste/kunisada-signature-seal.html
Play title/theater/performance date
Igagoe Yomikiri kōshaku (伊賀越読切講釈 / 伊賀越読切講訳)
Kawarasaki theater
1848/09
Actor/role
Sawamura Sōjūrō V 沢村宗十郎 as
Karaki Masaemon 唐木政右衛門
Publisher : Yamaguchiya Tōbei
http://www.printsofjapan.com/Publishers_Wakasaya_to_Z.htm
Censor seals : Muramatsu 村松
and Yoshimura 吉村 ) used between 1846 and 1848
Reference document
https://archive.waseda.jp/archive/detail.html?arg=%7B%22subDB_id%22:%2252%22,%22id%22:%22185677;41%22%7D&lang=en
Scene explanation
Act V, scene II of the Play A Board Game of the Road to Iga Pass (Igagoe dôchû sugoroku)
https://www.kabuki21.com/ids_p.php
Your print is surely part of a multi panel composition see Kabuki resume of play
https://www.kabuki21.com/ids.php
Artist's signature
Ichiyosai Toyokuni ga 一陽斎豊国画
http://www.kunisada.de/Liste/kunisada-signature-seal.html
Play title/theater/performance date
Igagoe Yomikiri kōshaku (伊賀越読切講釈 / 伊賀越読切講訳)
Kawarasaki theater
1848/09
Actor/role
Sawamura Sōjūrō V 沢村宗十郎 as
Karaki Masaemon 唐木政右衛門
Publisher : Yamaguchiya Tōbei
http://www.printsofjapan.com/Publishers_Wakasaya_to_Z.htm
Censor seals : Muramatsu 村松
and Yoshimura 吉村 ) used between 1846 and 1848
Reference document
https://archive.waseda.jp/archive/detail.html?arg=%7B%22subDB_id%22:%2252%22,%22id%22:%22185677;41%22%7D&lang=en
Scene explanation
Act V, scene II of the Play A Board Game of the Road to Iga Pass (Igagoe dôchû sugoroku)
https://www.kabuki21.com/ids_p.php
Sorry for the double entry !
The link for the resume of the play is
https://www.kabuki21.com/ids.php
Thank you so so much!
It’s the center sheet of a kabuki triptych.
Thank you so much! This is wonderful