ONOE BAIKÔ VI (尾上梅幸)
11/08/1870 - 11/08/1934

aka ONOE EIZABURÔ V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎)
aka ONOE EINOSUKE I (尾上栄之助; 尾上榮之助)

Left Panel, Top Row: Unknown as Unread; Unknown as Unread;
Unknown as Unread

Left Panel, Middle Row: Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Oniô Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門); Unknown as Unread

Left Panel, Bottom Row: Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎;
市川權十郎) as Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈);
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Middle Panel, Top Row: Unknown as Unread;
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎);
Unread as Unknown, Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Unread

Middle Panel, Bottom Row: Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成);
Onoe ô EizaburVI (尾上栄三郎;  尾上榮三郎) as
Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)
    
Right Panel, Top Row: Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川團十郎;
市川團十郎) as Kudô Saemon Suketsune (工藤左衛門祐経);
Unread as Unknown; Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Kewaizaka no Shôshô (化粧坂少将); Unknown as Unread

Right Panel, Bottom Row: Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
as Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太); Unknown as Unread

Play: Kichirei Soga no Ishizue (吉例曽我礎)
[aka Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16/03
Print Date: 03/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Kabuki21.com
 

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Oniô Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川團十郎;
市川團十郎)
as Kudô Saemon Suketsune
(工藤左衛門祐経)

Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎;
市川權十郎) as
Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成)

Unknown as
Unread














Play: Kichirei Soga no Ishizue
(吉例曽我礎)
[aka Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16/03
Print Date: 06/10/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

  Unknown as Unread
 
  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
  Kewaizaka no Shôshô (化粧坂少将)

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
  Unread

  Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎;
  尾上榮三郎) as
  Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)

  Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
  as Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)

  Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
  Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎)

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Inaba Sado no Kami (稲葉佐渡守)

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Okaji Tsubone (お梶局)


Play: Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/03
Print Date: 05/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan
ARC Collection

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎;
市川團十郎) as Ieyasu-kô (家康公)

 

  Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
  Hidetada-kô (秀忠公)

  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
  Ôdaidokoro (御台所)

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
    
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Unread

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Unread

Unknown as Unread

Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次;
市川左団次) as Unread

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Kejyo Osugi (下女お杉)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/12/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  Although this toy print depicts
an Oshichi-kichisamono play such
as Shôchikubai Yushima no
Kakegaku (松 竹梅湯島掛額), the
exact title of the play in this print is
not known at this time.  Shikan V
did portray Oshichi in a November
1901 Kabuki-za production of
Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku,
but the cast was otherwise different.
 
 

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Nyôbô Omatsu (女房おまつ)

Kataoka Gatô  III (片岡 我當) as Yorozuya Sukeroku (萬屋助六)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上 梅幸) as Tayû Agemaki (太夫揚巻)

Play: Kamiko Jitate Ryômen Kagami (紙子仕立両面鑑)
Performance Place/: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/17/03
Print Date: 10/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 

Ichikawa Komazô VIII
(市川高麗蔵) as
Fudôyama Hidegorô
(不動山秀五郎)

Play: Mikazuki (三日月)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/10/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Central Metropolitan Library
 
  

  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
  Nyôbô Okiku (女房お菊)
 

Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
Mikazuki Jirokichi (三日月治郎吉)

       
        Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
        Kanzeon Keshin (観世音化身)

       

        Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki
        (壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 11/21/03
        Print Date: 11/1903
        Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
        Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
        Memorial Theatre Museum

  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
  Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)

  Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
  Sawaichi (沢市)

Ichikawa Sôzaburô VI (市川宗三郎) as
Miyakoshi Genba (宮越玄蕃)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV as
Soga no Iruka (蘇我入鹿)
 
Ichikawa Dan'emon? (市川団右衛門)
as Aramaki Yatôji (荒巻弥藤次)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tōfu Ka Omura.(豆腐買おむら)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Omiwa (お三輪)
  
Ichikawa Komazô VIII as
Fukashichi (鱶七)

Play:  Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓), Act 4, Scene 4:
Mikasayama Goten (三笠山御殿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/07
Print Date: 06/01/07
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Uzaemon XV and Komazô VIII
alternated roles during this production.
 
 
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Onoe Baikô VI as Motome (求女)
 
Sawamura Tosshô III as
Princess Tachibana (橘姫)

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫)
as Aburaya Haha [Otsune]
(油屋母[お常])

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Musume Osome (娘おそめ)

Sawamura Tosshô III
(沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
Hisamatsu (久松)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Musume Omitsu (娘おみつ)

Play: Nozaki-mura (野崎村),
Volume 1, Scene 2 of
Shinpan Utasaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1907
Print Date: 06/20/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
  

    
     Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Aburaya Osome (油屋お染)
   
     Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as Hisamatsu (久松)
    
     Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作)
    
     Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Musume Omitsu (娘おみつ)
    
     Play: Nozaki-mura (野崎村), Volume 1, Scene 2 of
     Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
     Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 04/1907
     Print Date: 04/1907
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 
 

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Ôshi Rikiya (大星力弥)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Okaru (おかる)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/06/09
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate
print.
 
 
 

                   
Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Plays at
the Initial Opening of the Imperial Theater:
Yoritomo (頼朝, Igagoe (伊賀越), and Hagoromo (羽衣).

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/04/11
Print Date: 03/04/11
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed playbill
Image courtesy of the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints

Note: The center panel is by Kiyotada IV.  The artist for the other
two panels are unread but are presumably also by Kiyotada.   In
this production, Tennyo (天女) was played by Onoe Baikô VI, and
Hakuryô (伯竜) was played by Sawamura Sôjûrô VII.
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI  (尾上梅幸) as
Kurihara Kônosuke (栗原幸之助)
  
Play: Shinki Itten (心機一転)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/11
Print Date: 09/17/1911
Artist: Yamamoto Kanae (山本鼎)
Series: Sôga Butai Sugata (草画舞台姿), Vol. 3
[Les Feuilles Théâtrales]    
Personal Collection

Note: This print was self-carved by Yamamoto Kanae for members
of the Tokyo Hanga Kurabu Hakko (東京版画倶楽部發行).
 

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 
 

 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki  Dôji (茨木童子)
           
Play: Ibaraki (茨木; いばらき)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki  Dôji (茨木童子)
 
Plays: Hizakura (緋櫻); Ibaraki (茨木); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Suina Sabaki (粹なさばき)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/12
Print Date: 03/1912?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII as Watanabe no Tsuna (渡邊綱)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Demon of Mount Atago (disguised as Sayuri (小百合)
 
Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1913
Print Date: 03/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Also on the bill were Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺), Ishida Mitsunari
(石田三成), and Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵). Onoe
Baikô VI was also one of four actors who alternated in the roles of
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子) and as Shirabyôshi Sakurako
(白拍子櫻子) in Ninin Dôjôji.     

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Ibara (茨)

Play: Hitotsuya (一ツ家;  一つ家)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸)  as
Otomi (お富)

Play: Yowa Nasake Uukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/28/16
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
 
  

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/28/16
Print Date: 12/18/16
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #1]
*Personal Collection

                   

Plays: 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: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: The central female actor depicted is Onôe Baikô VI either as
Urasato (浦里) in Akegarasu Haru no Awa Yuki (明烏春淡雪) or as
Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局) in the play of the same name.
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) was Kasugaya
Tokijirô (春日屋時次郎) in Akegarasu Haru no Awa Yuki.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) was Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶) and Sawamura Sônosuke I as Hangan
Yoshitsune (判官義経) in Kanjinchô.
 
 
 

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上梅幸) as
Tomoe Gozen (巴御前)

Play: Onna Shibaraku
(女暫; 女しばらく)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
Personal Collection
 
 

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: 10/06/17?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #2
Personal Collection

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #3]
Personal Collection
 
Note: While the role is not decipherable,
the image suggests that it is that of
Yodogime.

                Onoe Baiko VI (尾上梅幸) as
                Yodogimi (淀君)

                Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 03/30/17
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
                Medium: Woodblock print
                [Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
                Personal Collection
 
                Note: While the role is not decipherable, the image
                suggests that it is that of Yodogimi.

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #A]
Personal Collection

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: 09/15/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #?
[Fujisawa Print Set #1]
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
Personal Collection

 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Sayuri (小百合)

Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/18
Print Date: 04/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) #9
Print Date: 04/1918?

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Takiyasha (瀧夜叉)

Play: Takiyasha (瀧夜叉)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: 05/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) #10
        

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Ohide no Kata (お秀の方)
 
Play: Kuriyama Daizen (栗山大膳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/18
Print Date: 06/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection
           
Note: References suggest that Baikô VI
performed other roles in this play and that
Sôjûrô VII also covered the role of Ohide
no Kata.  However, it is possible that Baikô
VI assumed the role sometime after the
opening performance, or that the print
represents Baikô V performing the role of
Ohide no Kata in a different play on a
different date altogether.
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Michitose (三千歳)
Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
(雪暮夜入谷畦道)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za,
Yokohoma
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Izayoi (十六夜)

Play:  Sato no Harugi Aazami Ironui
(柳巷春着薊色縫)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/07/20
Print Date: 02/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: During the relevant time period
when the print could have been made,
Baikô VI also performed this role at
the Hongô-za in June 1924 and at the
Teikoku Gekijô in June 1926.  It is
possible that this print reflects one of
those performances.