JANUARY 1902






Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄)
performing the play's prologue


Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/02
Print Date: 12/1901
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre
of Japan

Note: The depiction of Horiguchi Hideo
(堀口英雄) in the upper left panel is by
Utagawa Kunihiro (歌川国広).  

    
     Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) [as
     Mongaku Shônin (文覚上人; 文覺上人)?]


     Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
     Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 01/01/02
     Print Date: 12/1901
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre
     of Japan

     Note: The depiction of Ichikawa Danjûrô
     VIII (市川団十郎 市川團十郎) as
     Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
     Kanjincho (勧進帳) in the upper left
     panel is by Kuniyuki (国之画)

    
     Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
     Otowa no Rei (おとはの霊) and
     Horiguchi Hideo (堀口英雄)

     Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
     Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 01/01/02
     Print Date: 12/1901
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre
     of Japan
    
     Note: The depiction of Ichikawa Danjûrô
     VIII (市川団十郎 市川團十郎) as
     Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
     Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
     (與話情浮名横櫛) in the upper right
     panel is by Mongen Kunigen (?)
     (門人国玄).

    
     Furukawa Roppa (古川 緑波) as
     Kodama (小玉)

     Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
     Otowa (おとわ)

     Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
     Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 01/01/02
     Print Date: 12/1901
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre
     of Japan

     Note: The depiction of Ichikawa Danjûrô
     VIII (市川団十郎 市川團十郎) as Jiraiya
     (児雷也) in Jiraiya Gôketsu Monogatari
     (児雷也豪傑譚語) in the upper left panel
     is by Utagawa Kunihiro (歌川国広).
 
  
 
 











Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
Ningyô Tsukaihi (人形遣ひ)
  

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 01/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Kunitachi
College of Music Library (Takeuchi
Bunko)
 
 
 


  Onoe Eizaburô V
  (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
  Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)
 
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
Ningyô Tsukaihi (人形遣ひ)


  Unread as Musician
  Unread as Musician

 

                

 

    


  

            
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as ?

? as [Musicians] 
 
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)

Onoe Eizaburô V  (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 03/27/02
Artist: ?
 
 
 

 

                
Plays:  Kamakurayama Haru no Asahina (鎌倉山春朝比奈); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝);
Kogane no Shachihoko Uwasa no Takanami (金鯱噂高浪)

Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 01/11/02
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




            
Kataoka Ichizô  III (片岡市蔵) as Wada Yoshimori (和田義盛)
    
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Asahina Saburô (朝比奈三郎)
    
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as Udaijin Sanetomo (右大臣実朝) 
    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (市川染五郎) as Hôjô Yoshitoki (北条義時)

Play: Kamakurayama Haru no Asahina (鎌倉山春朝比奈)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 01/1902?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 
 


Nakamura Naritarô I
(中村成太郎) as
Kamei Rokurô (亀井六郎)

 Ichikawa Sadanji I
 (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
 Shinchû Nagon Tomomori
 (新中納言知盛)
 
Sawamura Gennosuke IV
(沢村源之助 as 
Ni-i Ama (二位尼)

Ichikawa Botan II (市川ほたん)
as Kiyowaka-kun (清若君)
 
Ichikawa Gonjûrô I
(市川権十郎; 市川權十郎) as
Minamotono Yoshitsune
(源義経)
 
Ichikawa Arajirô I  (市川荒次郎)
as Benkei (弁慶)
 
Sadenji (左伝次) as
Kataoka Hachirô (片岡八郎)
 
Play: Ikari Tomomori (碇知盛)
Performance Place: Meiji-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/15/02
Print Date: 04/05/02
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the
Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
Note: There is print by Kunisada
III of this production, suggesting
that he may have been the artist
of this print.
 
 
 



            


 

    
    

   
    
     
     Play: Ikari Tomomori (碇知盛)
     Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 01/15/02
     Print Date: 01/18/02
    Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the Tokyo Central
     Metropolitan Library


  Ichikawa Sadanji I
  (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
  Shinchû Nagon Tomomori
  (新中納言知盛)


 

                

 

    


  

                       
            Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)
    
            Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
            Soga Jûrô (曾我十郎)
    
            Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
            Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経) 
    
            Ichikawa Enshô II (市川莚升;   市川莚舛) as
            Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈)

            Ichikawa Enjo (市川莚女) as
            Kehaizaka Shôshô (化粧坂少将)

            Play: Kotobuki Soga (寿曾我; 寿曽我)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 01/15/02
            Print Date: 01/1902
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan