AYATSURI
SANBASÔ
(操り三番; 操三番叟)
aka YANAGI NO ITO HIKUYA GOHIKI
(柳糸引御摂)
JANUARY 1922
Plays: Urami no Omote (怨恨の面); Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記); Ayatsuri
Sanbasô (操り三番叟);
Shichiya no Kura Kokoro no Irekae (質屋土蔵魂入替)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/22
Print Date: 01/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
JANUARY 1928
Plays: Yoyogi no Kamikaze (代々木の神風); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi
(神霊矢口渡);
Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曾我對面); Ibaraki (茨木); Osada no
Adauchi (おさだの仇討);
Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番叟); Nochi no Tsuki Shuen Shimadai
(后月酒宴島臺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/28
Print Date: 01/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
1936
Cover for Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番; 操三番叟)
[Sanbasô (三番叟)]
Play: Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番; 操三番叟)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Medium: Machine printed
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Sanbasô (三番叟)
Play: Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番; 操三番叟)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Personal Collection
1942
Sanbasô (三番叟)
Play: Ayatsuri Sanbasô
(操り三番; 操三番叟)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Hana no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 花の巻)
Image courtesy of
Artelino.com
DECEMBER 1955
Iwai Hanshirô X (岩井半四郎) as
Sanbasô (三番叟)
Play: Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番; 操三番叟)
Performance Place: Tôyoko Hall, Toyko
Performance Date: 12/1955
Print Date: 1957?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
Note: A similar but more detailed version of this
design is shown in the 2002 Shunsen catalog
(bearing a 1957 date) and 1991 Shunsen catalogs
(and appears to be a painting, not hanga-genga).
It is possible that the actual date of this print is
not 1957.