AKEGARASU HANA NO NUREGINU
(明烏花濡衣)

aka AKEGARASU YUME NO AWAYUKI (明烏夢泡雪)
aka AKEGARASU (明烏)
aka KARASU (烏)
aka URAZATO TOKIJIRÔ (浦里時次郎)

                   
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Kasugaya Tokijirô (春日屋時次郎)
 
Play: Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局); Kanjinchô (勧進帳);
Akegarasu Haru no Awa Yuki (明烏春淡雪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/17
Print Date: 01/1917?
Artist:
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
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Note: Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) was Musashibô
Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) was Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経) in Kanjinchô. The
central female actor depicted is Onôe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) either
as Urasato (浦里) in Akegarasu Haru no Awa Yuki or as Kasuga no
Tsubone (春日局) in the play of the same name.
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Miura Seishi Jyô (三浦製絲場); Garakate (ガラカテ); Urazato Tokijirô Akegarasu Sato No
Awayuki (浦里時次郎明烏廓淡雪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/20
Print Date: 02/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Play: Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki (明烏夢泡雪)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuho (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Shinnai Bushi (新内節)
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From top left to lower right:
 
1. Tanaka Kôka (田中耕花): Motome (求女) in
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
2.  Machida Shian (町田紫庵): ? in ?
3.  Takarada Nao (宝田直): Sekibê (関兵衛) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
4.   *mi Tashushi (*見立志): Sumizome (墨染) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
5.  Kitada Haruhiko (北田晴彦): Oiwa (お岩) in
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
6.  Inoue Matsuyoshi (井上松芳): Goemon (五右工門) in
Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐)
7.  Uchikawa Eihô (内川英峰): Hanaregoma Chôkichi
(放駒長吉) in Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記)
8.  Tsuda Kôraku (津田行楽):  ? in ?
9.  Higuchi Soyama (樋口蘇山): Urazato Tokijirô
(浦里時次郎) in Akegarasu (明烏)
10. Shirai Kôyuki (白井皎雪): ? in ?
11. Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫): Tadanobu (忠信) in
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
12. Minami Kichijirô (南吉次郎): Urazato (浦里) in
Akegarasu (明烏)

Print Date: 10/1933
Personal Collection

Note: Most of these artists are known matchbook cover/
adveritsing label artists.  In light of the title cartouche, it
is possible that this is the first panel of a triptych that
cumulatively contains 36 actor portraits.  The seal on
this print is the same as one found on two woodblock
printed postcards that resemble two 1925 prints by
Miyake Hanayama, and is likely a publisher seal.
 
 
 

                   
Kasugaya Tokijirô
(春日屋時次郎)

Play: Akegarasu (明烏)
Print Date: 10/1933
Artist: Higuchi Soyama (樋口蘇山)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a close up of the
image from the oban sheet.

                   
Kasugaya Tokijirô
(春日屋時次郎)

Play: Akegarasu (明烏)
Date: c. 1933
Artist: Higuchi Soyama (樋口蘇山)
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection

                   
Yamanaya Urazato (山名屋浦里)

Play: Akegarasu (明烏)
Print Date: 10/1933
Artist: Minami Kichijirô (南吉次郎)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a close up of the
image from the oban sheet.

                   
Yamanaya Urazato (山名屋浦里)
 
Play: Akegarasu (明烏)
Date: c. 1933
Artist: Minami Kichijirô (南吉次郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection

               
Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as
Urazato (浦里)

Play: Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki  (明烏春淡雪)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist; Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Baikō VI performed this role on several occasions,
including a production at the Teikoku Geikijô in January 1917
and at the Kabuki-za in October 1931 (opposite Uzaemon
XV).  However, I can find no production in Tokyo during the
1920s, the time when Shikô is known to have been actively
designing prints.  It is possible that this print reflects a
regional performance.
 
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Tokijirō (時次郎)

Play: Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki  (明烏春淡雪)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist; Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role on several occasions,
including a production at the Kabuki-za in October 1931
(opposite Baiko VI).  However, I can find no production in Tokyo
during the 1920s, the time when  Shikô is known to have been
actively designing prints.  It is possible that this print reflects a
regional performance.
 
 
 

Urazato ((浦里)

Play: Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki (明烏夢泡雪)
Date: ?
Artist; Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Medium: Lithograph
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