AYATSURI SANBASÔ
(操り三番; 操三番叟)

aka YANAGI NO ITO HIKUYA GOHIKI (柳糸引御摂)

 


See also Kotobuki Shiki Sanbasô (壽式三番叟), Tanemaki Sanbasô (種蒔三番叟), Ninin
Sanbasô (二人三番叟), Kuruwa Sanbasô (廓三番叟), Okina (翁), Misao Sanbasô (操三番叟),
and Sanbasômono (三番叟物).
 

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
Personal Collection
 
 



                   
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.