Sawamura Tosshō II (二代目沢村訥升: 1/1854 to 4/1879) (actor 1823 – 1886)
Sawamura Genpei II (二代目沢村源平: 10/1842 to 12/1853)Suketakaya Takasuke IV (四代目助高屋高助: 5/1879 to 2/1886)
Sawamura Sōjūrō (澤村宗十郎: a posthumous name)
Tosshō (poetry name - 訥升)
Kōga (poetry name - 高賀)
Sawamura Tosshi VI (poetry name - 六代目澤村訥子)
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Biography:
Sawamura Tosshō II held this name from 1/1854 to April 1879.
Tosshō II appeared in a print by Toyokuni III in 1854-1858, 1860-64; Yoshiiku in 1863-64 and 1867; Kunisada II in 1863 and 1865-1866; Yoshitaki in 1861; Yoshitora in 1862-63 and Fusatane in 1867; in a Yoshitoshi in 1869 and a Kunichika in 1863-1871, 1873 and 1876.
[The names in boldtype above indicate artists who portrayed Tosshō II in the Lyon Collection.]
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The curatorial comments for an 1872 Kunichika triptych say: "The first Japanese railway line opened between Shimbashi and Yokohama on 12 September 1872. This event is commemorated in the background here, together with the depiction of Kawarasaki Gonnosuke VII (later Ichikawa Danjūrō IX) as Chōbei and two other popular kabuki stars, Sawamura Tosshō II and Onoe Kikugorō V, who appeared in a performance at the Morita-za Theater in May of the same year."