SHÔUTSUSHI ASAGAO BANASHI
(生写朝顔話)

aka SHÔUTSUSHI ASAGAO NIKKI (生写朝顔日記)
aka EIRI SHÔUTSUSHI ASAGAO MONOGATARI (繪入稗史蕣物語)
aka KEISEI TSUKUSHI NO TSUMAGOTO (*****)
aka ASAGAO NIKKI (朝顔日記)
aka IKIUTSUSHI ASAGAO NIKKI (生寫朝顔日記)

                 
 
Plays: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記); Runin (流人); Ukina Tatsumi Haori Nakaura 
(浮名巽羽織中裏); Ôyamamai (大山詣)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/18/12
Print Date: 06/18/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Goban Tadanobu (碁盤忠信); Shôutsushi Asagao Banashi (生寫朝顔日記);
Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語); Mitsu no Tomoe Yukino Yobanashi (三巴雪夜話)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/16
Print Date: 12/1916?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Shin Kagamiyama (新鏡山); Shinobu Sato Busshi no Monogatari (信夫里佛師物語);
Ikiutsushi Asagao Nikki  (生寫朝顔日記); Uso no Yo no Naka (嘘の世の中)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/18
Print Date: 05/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Taikôki Chôsen no Maki (太閤記朝鮮之巻); Shin Asagao Nikki (新朝顔日記); Ôsakazuki Shusen
no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戰強者); Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/18
Print Date: 12/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

   
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock test print
Image courtesy of Ed Freis

Note:  This keyblock test print significantly alters
the lines on the collar,proper right sleeve, eye-
brows, bridge of the nose, and hands from those
on any known version of this print.design. 
Presumably the blocks were subsequently
recarved in whole or in part before a commercial
version of this design was released.  See the
entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.
 
 
 
 
 

   
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection

Note:  This is a keyblock test print with a tissue
paper overlay on the right sleeve with hand-
coloring suggesting the floral pattern of the
kimono.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is an unnumbered test print (though not a test print
corresponding to the keyblock print shown above).  It may be a
color variant or else an unfaded example of the first edition
printing.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  This is the first edition printing of this design (edition of 100),
possibly faded.  Gado IV performed this role at the Shinbashi Enbujô
in Tokyo in June 1924, and likely performed it in Kyoto around that
time.  It is also possible that the play was called Shin Asagao Nikki
(新朝顔日記), a new version of  Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki that was
sometimes performed in its place.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of Scholten Japanese Art
 
Note:  This is the second edition printing of this design in a
variant color scheme.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information.  A seemingly
similar version from the Ed Freis collection is shown in Brown
and Goodall-Cristante, Shin-Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art/University of Washington
Press 1996).  That copy is stamped on the verso as being a
sample print.

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)           
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924 or later
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is either a color variant or a faded copy of the second
edition printing.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information.   

Plays: Ikiutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記); Hirakana Seisuiki (ひら仮名盛衰記);
Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/06/26
Print Date: 08/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

Play: Asagao Nikki (朝顔日記)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Gidayû Bushi (義太夫節)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
 

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Kamoshita Chôko (鴨下晁湖)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Takane Kôji, Natori
Shunsen, Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, Shimizu Miezô, and Mori Shunchô.
The panels by Kamoshita follow.
 

                   
Play: Shōutsushi Asagao Banashi (生写朝顔話),
Panel 11 of Kobikichô Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku
(こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Kamoshita Chôko (鴨下晁湖)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                   
Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Banashi (生写朝顔話)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu IV (長谷川貞信)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #9
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                 
Mikiyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  1976
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of Natsume-books.com
 
 
 
 

                 
[Ôi River: The Puppet Master, Yoshida Bungorô
(吉田文五郎), with a Bunraku Puppet Miyuki
(深雪) [aka Asagao (朝顔)] Ôigawa (大井川)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Print Date:  ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art

Note: Various authorities date this print to 1955, 1956, and 1957.   '