Plays: Maki no Kata (牧の方); Shinpan Utazaimon (新板歌祭文); Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操三番叟);
Nuno-zarashi (布晒し; 布さらし)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/05
Print Date: 05/06/05
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Moriyoshi (守義) and  Nakamura Shikan
V (中村芝翫) as Maki no Kata (牧の方) in Maki no Kata (牧の方).   The other two figures on the cover are
as yet unidentified.   The child actor might be Nakamura Kansuke [III?] (中村翫助).

                 
Ichikawa Udanji I (市川右団次; 市川右團次) as
Sugawara Michizane-ko (菅原道実公) and Sanbasô (三番叟)

Plays: Shinrei Sugawara Michizane-ki (神霊菅原道実記); Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺); 
Some Moyô Konomi no Soroi-gi (染模様御好揃着); Yome Odoshi Dani (嫁おどし谷);
Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操三番叟); Shinkyoku Urashima (新曲浦島); Sannin Ishibashi (三人石橋)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/07
Print Date: 06/06/1907
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
Play: Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番; 操三番叟)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 09/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Shin Yakusha: Nigao-e (新役者:
似顔繪) Set #10 [New Actors: Portraits Set #10]
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
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: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Satsuki (早月) and Matsumoto Kôshirô
VII (松本幸四郎) as Takechi Jubei Mitsuhide (武智十兵衛光秀) in Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記);  Sawamura
Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Mizuki Tatsue (水木辰江) and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Bandô Sannokichi (坂東三濃吉) in Urami no Omote (怨恨の面);  and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥;
守田勘彌) as Kongming [Zhuge Liang] Taiko no Sei (孔明陣太鼓の精) in Shichiya no Kura Kokoro no
Irekae (質屋土蔵魂入替).
 
 
 

                   
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Okina (翁)
 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
Plays: Ayatsuri Sanbasô (あやつり三番叟);
Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記);
Kichisama Mairu Yukari no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/25
Print Date: 09/10/25
Artist:: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon
I (中村吉右衛門) as Sendô Matsuemon (船頭松右衛門),
in actuality, Higuchi Jirô (桶口次郎) in Hirakana
Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); and Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Kichisa (吉三) and Ôtani Tomoemon
VI (大谷友右衛門)  as Kobori Yaheiji (小堀弥平次)  in
Kichisama Mairu Yukari no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信).
 
 

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
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
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Onio Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門) in
Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曾我對面); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki  Dôji (茨木童子) in
Ibaraki (茨木); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ofune (お舟) and  Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Tonbei (頓兵衛) in Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡).
 

                   
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

                   
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
 
 

                   
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.