新版歌祭文  お染久松  Shinpan Utazaimon: Osome Hisamatsu	The New Scandalous Ballad of Osome and Hisamatsu
仮名手本忠臣蔵 忠臣蔵、七段目  Kanadehon Chūshingura – shichi danme	The Treasury of Loyal Retainers: Act 7
仮名手本忠臣蔵 忠臣蔵、五段目  Kanadehon Chūshingura – go danme	The Treasury of Loyal Retainers: Act 5
仮名手本忠臣蔵　前段続き  Kanadehon Chūshingura – zendan tsuduki	The Treasury of Loyal Retainers:  Introduction
伊賀越道中双六  伊賀越敵討  Igagoe dōchū sugoroku - Igagoe katakiuchi	The Revenge at Igagoe - Vengance at  Igagoe
一の谷嫩軍記  一谷嫩軍記、組打  Ichinotani futaba gunki - kumiuchi	Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani –  The  Duel
鎌倉三代記  Kamakura sandaiki	Three Generations of Kamakura Shoguns
心中天網嶋 小春治兵衛  Shinjū ten nō amajima - Koharu Jihei	The Love Suicides at Amijima - Koharu  Jihei
義経千本桜 静忠信道行  Yoshitsune senbon zakura -  Sei chūshin michiyuki	Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees  - travel dance of devotion
菅原伝授手習鑑  車引き  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami – kurumabiki	Sugawara and the Secrets of  Calligraphy  - the struggle for the carriage
本朝廿四孝  十種香  Honchō nijū shikō – jusshukō	Twenty-four Examples of Filial Piety –  The  Incense Burning
夏祭浪花鑑 団七九郎兵衛  Natsumatsuri Naniwa kagami – Danshichi Kurobei	Summer festival at Naniwa (Osaka)–  Danshichi Kurobei

Each performance was represented in the collection by an explanatory sheet plus one print showing a stage set from the play and three portraits of the play's main characters, as shown below.

Explanation, Stage Set and Three Puppet Portraits for the play

Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees

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It is likely that the prints were sold, at least in part, by subscription, as decorative enclosures exist for the four prints and the explanatory sheet for each of the plays.  A decorative portfolio or outer box containing the entire set of plays was also issued. The two colophons I've seen for the set (see below) indicate that the explanatory sheets were written by Hasegawa Konobu, the artist who designed the prints and, likely, the person who conceived of the collection.

colophon accompanying set of prints published by Hangakai hanmoto 板画會板元 Source: National Diet Library

colophon accompanying set of prints published by Bijutsusha 美術社 Source: Ritsumeikan University Art Research Center

At an unknown later date, Uchida Publishing obtained the blocks and re-issued the prints depicting puppets.  The Uchida published prints bear the hexagonal seal of Uchida.

The collection's title 日本名物大阪文楽座人形画集 (Ōsaka Bunraku-za Ningyō Gashū: Nihon Meibutsu) has been variously translated as Illustrated Collection of the Famous Japanese Puppets of the Osaka Bunrakuza; Book of Noted Puppets of the Bunrakuza, Osaka and Famous Products of Japan: Osaka Bunraku Theatre Dolls, Book of Prints.

For a detailed history of the Puppet Theater in Osaka please see the National Diet Library page http://www.ndl.go.jp/scenery/e/column/kansai/goryo_bunrakuza.html

¹ Hangakai hanmoto is also seen written as 板畫會板元

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#1656
Title or Description	The New Scandalous Ballad of Osome and Hisamatsu (also seen translated as The Balladeer's New Tale of Osome and Hisamatsu)  Shinpan Utazaimon: Osome Hisamatsu  形新版歌祭文  お染久松
Series	Illustrated Collection of the Famous Japanese Puppets of the Osaka Bunrakuza  Ōsaka Bunraku-za Ningyō Gashū: Nihon Meibutsu   日本名物大阪文楽座人形画集
Artist	Hasegawa Sadanobu III (Konobu III) (1881-1963)
Signature	小信 Konobu
Seal	小信 Konobu oval seal (see above)
Publication Date	originally Taishō 15 (1926)
Publisher	美術社 Bijutsusha, Tokyo and 版画会板元 Hangakai hanmoto, Kyoto
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	excellent - paper abrasion upper right corner
Genre	文楽人形 bunraku ningyō
Miscellaneous	unread seal on verso
Format
H x W Paper	14 3/4 x 10 in. (37.5 x 25.4 cm)
H x W Image	14 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (37.1 x 24.8 cm)
Literature
Collections This Print	The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University 作品番号:201-1492 and 201-1542A; Ritsumeikan University Art Research Center; National Diet Library