ONNA GOROSHI ABURA NO JIGOKU
(女殺油地獄)

aka ABURA NO JIGOKU (油地獄)

 


MAY 1910

                 
 
Plays: Onna Goroshi Abura no Jigoku (女殺油地獄); Kaikei no Yuki Gojitsu Hachinoki 
(会稽雪後日鉢木); Sekenshi (世間師)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/30/10
Print Date: 05/01/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 





FEBRUARY 1922



                 
Plays: On'na Oya (女親); Aruhi no Susanoo no Mikoto (一日の素盞鳴尊); Kayoi Komachi (通小町);
On'na Goroshi Abura no Jigoku (女殺油地獄)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



FEBRUARY 1949

 
  Wrapper for Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu
  (油地獄』板画冊)
 
  Play: Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
  Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô,
  Tokyo
  Performance Date: 02/03/1949
  Print Date: 02/1949?
  Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
  Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu
  (油地獄 板画冊)
  Personal Collection
 
 
 

            
            Title Page:  Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門)  
            Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
           
            Play: Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Information sheet identifying the theatre, the production date,
            and the name of the artist

            Play: Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
           Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Play: Tokuan Zutsumi (徳庵堤), Act I of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collectionn

 
  Kataoka Ichizô V (片岡市蔵) as ? (会津の客蝋九)

  Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
  Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛))
 
  Play: Tokuan Zutsumi (徳庵堤), Act I of
  Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
  Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 02/03/1949
  Print Date: 02/1949?
  Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
  Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
  Personal Collection

            
            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as Okichi (お吉)
           
            Play: Tokuan Zutsumi (徳庵堤), Act I of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
            Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

            Nakamura Baishi II (中村梅枝) as
            Yohê's half-sister Okachi (おかち)

             ? as Priest?

            Play: Kawachiya Yohê-nai (河内屋与兵衛内), Act II of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection
 

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)
 
            Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
            Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

            Play: Kawachiya Yohê-nai (河内屋与兵衛内), Act II of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

 
  Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
  Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)
 
  Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
  Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

  Play: Kawachiya Yohê-nai (河内屋与兵衛内), Act II of
  Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
  Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 02/03/1949
  Print Date: 02/1949?
  Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
  Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
  Personal Collection
 
 

            
            Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
            Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

            Ichikawa Dannosuke VI (市川團之助; 市川団之助) as
            wife Osawa (おさは)
           
            Play:  Kawachiya Yohê-nai (河内屋与兵衛内), Act II of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            ? as ?

            Play: Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Matagorô  II (中村又五郎) as
            Teshimaya Shichizaemon (豊島屋七左衛門)
,
            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
            wife Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III, Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

 
  Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
  Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

  Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
  Okichi (お吉)
 
  Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
  Act III,  Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
  Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 02/03/1949
  Print Date: 02/1949?
  Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
  Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
  Personal Collection

 

            
            Samushiro?  (左莚)  as Nishikiya Kobê (錦屋小兵衛)
 
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)
           
            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III , Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Nakamura Matagorô  II (中村又五郎) as
            Teshimaya Shichizaemon (豊島屋七左衛門)
       
            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
             Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III , Scene 1 of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

           Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
           Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III , Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            Personal Collection

 
  Nakamura Matagorô  II (中村又五郎) as
  Teshimaya Shichizaemon (豊島屋七左衛門)
 
  Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
  Act III , Scene 1 of
  Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
  Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 02/03/1949
  Print Date: 02/1949?
  Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
  Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
  Personal Collection

           

 
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
            Nyôbô (女房) the wife] Okichi (お 吉)

            Play: [Toshima Oil Shop] Toshima ya Abura-ten
            (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied
            color on verso
            Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com'

            Note: This print was not found in my copy of
            Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄 板画冊)
            reproduced above.   It is not known at this
            time if my set is incomplete or if this
            particular print was separately issued by Kihei.
 
 
 


MARCH 1989

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kawachiya Tokubê (河内証徳兵衛)

Play: Onna Goroshi Abura no Jigoku (女殺油地獄)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/89
Print Date: 05/1989
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VII (Design 3)]
Dainana-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 3
(第七期大首絵シリーズの3)
Personal Collection (#35/90)
 
 
 
 

JUNE 2009

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XV (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

Play: Onna Goroshi Abura no Jigoku (女殺油地獄)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/09
Print Date: 2013
Artist: Tachihara Inuki (立原位貫)
Personal Collection (#42/110)

Note: A filmed version of the June 2009 production was
 released on May 24, 2013.