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)

 

JANUARY 1921

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Yoshinoya Koshizu (吉野家小静)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sawamura Tanosuke (沢村田之助)
 
Plays: Yuki On'na Gomai Hagoita (雪女五枚羽子板); Suô Otoshi (素襖落); Ryûkyô Yawa (柳橋夜話);
Chôchidori Sato no Harukoma (蝶千鳥廓春駒); Dontsuku (どんつく)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/21
Print Date: 01/1921?
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 Akamatsu Nyûdô  Mitsusuke
(赤松入道満祐) and  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tônai Saburô Moriharu
(藤内三郎盛治) in Yuki On'na Gomai Hagoita (雪女五枚羽子板); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥;
守田勘彌) as Shujin Bô (主人某) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Tarôkaja (太郎冠者) in
Suô Otoshi (素襖落).
 
 
 



FEBRUARY 1921


[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
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Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koito (小糸)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (御祭佐七; お祭佐七; お祭左七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection

           
           

APRIL 1921

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yahê (弥兵衛)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okô (お幸)
 
Plays: Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石噺); Noriaibune (浄瑠璃乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Shinobu (信夫) in
Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺); and  Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibo Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶), and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
in Kanjinchô (勸進帳).
 
 



           


JUNE 1921

                 
Plays:  Midareyaki (みだれ焼); Na ni Tachibana Homare no Ishikiri (名橘譽石切);
Hatsukohi Ji Chigusa no Nuregoto (初戀路千種濡事); Yari Odori Hana no Danmaku (鎗踊花段幕)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/21
Print Date: 06/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時)
in Na ni Tachibana Homare no Ishikiri (名橘譽石切); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌), Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎), Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎),  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) in unknown
roles.
 
 
 



OCTOBER 1921

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Onatsu (おなつ)
 
Plays: Honchô Ôshôkun  (本朝王昭君); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Meigetsu Hachiman Matsuri
(名月八幡祭)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/21
Print Date: 10/1921?
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 Tawaraya Sôtatsu (俵屋宗達),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (烏丸光広), and  Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Gakusô Keiun (學僧慶雲) in Honchô Ôshôkun  (本朝王昭君); and  Bandô
Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Uosô (魚惣),  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Chijimiya Shinsuke (縮屋新助), and  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Geisha Miyokichi (芸者美代吉) in Meigetsu Hachiman Matsuri (名月八幡祭).
 
 



NOVEMBER 1921


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Takiyasha-hime (滝夜叉姫)
 
Play: Shinobi Yoru Koi no Kusemono (忍夜戀曲者)
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
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Note: Prior to the publication of this print, Baikô VI
performed this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijo in
September 1912, though the play was called neither Shinobi
Yoru Koi no Kusemono (忍夜戀曲者) nor Masakado (将門).
 
 

                             
            Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Zatô Sawaichi  (座頭沢市)
 
            Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)
 
            Plays: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記);
            Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date:  11/01/21
            Print Date: 11/1921?
            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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)
            and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康) in Taiko no
            Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Banto Gobei
            (番頭五兵衛),  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Haiya Saburôbê (灰屋三郎兵衛),
            and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Keizan-ko (慶山公) in Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨).
 
 
 



JANUARY 1922

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Mizuki Tatsue (水木辰江)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Bandô Sannokichi (坂東三濃吉)
 
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
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sanbasô (三番叟) in Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番叟); 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).
 
 
 



APRIL 1922

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sayuri (小百合)
 
Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐); Takatoki (高時); Chiyoda Ninjô (千代田刃傷);
Modoribashi (戻橋); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/22
Print Date: 04/1922?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)
in Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐);  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Shinanoya
Ohan (信濃屋お半) and  Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Obiya Chôemon '(帯屋長右衛門) in
Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Matsudaira Geki (松平外記) and  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Chichi Yorimo (父頼母) in
Chiyoda Ninjô (千代田刃傷).
 



                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Maizuru (舞鶴)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Soga no Gorô (曽我ノ五郎)   
 
Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki  (根元草摺引); Kôtô no Naishi (勾當内侍); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Kosodemaku Yamato Nishikie (小袖幕大和錦繪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/17/22
Print Date: 04/1922?
Artists: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed? program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This was an entertainment for the Tokyo City Welcome Party for His Royal Highness
The Prince of Wales. The middle panel was designed by Kubota Beisai (久保田米星).  The cover also
depicts Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Kôtô (勾當) and  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Yura Hyôgonosuke (由良兵庫助) in Kôtô no Naishi (勾當内侍); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô
VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経),  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶), and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Togashi Saemon
(富樫左衛門) in Kanjinchô (勸進帳). 
 
 
 



MAY 1922



Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Tamamushi no Tsubone (玉虫局)
 
Plays: Tadanao Kyô Gyôjyôki (忠直卿行状記); Tachi
Nusubito (太刀盗人); Heikegani (平家蟹);, Shinkei
Kasane-ga Fushi (真景累ヶ渕); Shinobi Yoru Koi no
Kusemono (忍夜恋曲者)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/22
Print Date: 05/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The cover depicts Ôtani Tomoemon VI
(大谷友右衛門) as Kôsan Oshô (洸山和尚) and
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Tadanao-kyô (忠直卿) in Tadanao Kyô Gyôjyôki
(忠直卿行状記); and Bandô Mitsugorô VII
(坂東三津五郎) as Manbê (万兵衛) and Onoe
Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kurobê (九郎兵衛)
in Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人).
                
 
 
       

JUNE 1922

                 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Ishidô Umanojô (石堂右馬之丞)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ono Kudayû (斧九太夫)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okaru (お軽)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Tabi Sugata Omoi no Kake Ine
(旅姿思掛稲); Tsuyu no Harema Sora ha Sumiyoshi (入梅晴間空住吉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 





OCTOBER 1922
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hanshichi no Oba (半七の叔母)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Iwami (石見)
 
Plays: Shinnyo (真如); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Nagamachi On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切);
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegiri of the Hagino
Family] Hagino-ka no Yaegiri (萩野家の八重桐) in Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rônin Gotô Genjirô (浪人後藤源次郎) and  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Rônin Isogai Kazuma (浪人磯貝數馬) in Shinnyo (真如); and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Shirabyôshi Sakurako jitsu ha Kyôgen-shi Sakon (白拍子桜子 実ハ狂言師左近) in
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺).
 
 
 



NOVEMBER 1922

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Fuji No Tsuma Suminoe (富士の妻住の江)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toin Nagazane (洞院長實) '

Plays: Shibaraku (暫); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Fuji Daiko (富士太鼓);
Higan no Yûbe (彼岸の夕); Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/06/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:: The cover depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kiyohara no Takehira (清原武衡)
and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) in
Shibaraku (暫); Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門) in Yûgiri
Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Denbei (傳兵衛)
and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as O-Ume (お梅) in Higan no Yûbe (彼岸の夕).
 
 




JANUARY 1923

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as  Rokujô Shôshô Tadaaki (六條少将忠顕)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Narita Kosaburô Takashin (成田小三郎尭心)
 
Plays: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年);
Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水); Modori Kago Iro Koi Aigata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/23
Print Date: 01/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mondo (主水) in
Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshioka] Kijirô
(吉岡鬼次郎) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Okyô (お京) in Kiichi Hôgen
Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻).
 
 
 




 
 
 



APRIL 1923

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精)
 
Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); Saki Kisô Yuki no Ume ga Ka
(咲競雪梅香); Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Saruhashi Uemon (猿橋右門),
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Nanao Kinshirô (七尾金四郎), and  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助) in Saki Kisô Yuki no Ume ga Ka (咲競雪梅香);
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Koshimoto Chidori (腰元千鳥) in Hirakana Seisuiki
(ひらがな盛衰記); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mitsunari (三成) in
Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利).
 
 



JUNE 1923

                    
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nishina Rin'nosuke (仁科林之助)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hebitsukahi Okinu (蛇つかひお絹)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Toyokichi (豊吉) in Ryôgoku no Aki (兩国の秋)
 
Plays: Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動); Shizuhata Obi (賤機帯); Ryôgoku no Aki (兩国の秋);
Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ono Komachi (小野小町)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/23
Print Date: 06/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ataka Gôemon (安宅郷右衛門) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôta Ôi (太田大炊) in Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動);  Ichimura Uzaemon
XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱) in Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Ono Komachi (小野小町). 
 
 




OCTOBER 1924

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otsuma (お妻) 
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as O-Rin (お臨)
 
Plays: Kamikaze (神風); Momiji no Eneshi no Shirahari (紅葉宴衛士白張);
Otsuma Hachirobê Ryôgoku Kôdan (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談); Mei Ranfan (梅蘭芳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/25/24 - 11/04/24
Print Date: 10/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kôno Rokurô Michiari
(河野六郎通有), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?, and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Hôjô Sagam-no-Kami Tokimune (北條相模守時宗) in Kamikaze (神風).
 
 
 



NOVEMBER 1924

                    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Rokubei (六兵衛)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Takagi Shizuma (高木志津馬)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Muneharu (宗春)
 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Masaoka (政岡) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as  Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩). 
 
 
 



JANUARY 1925


Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takuemon (武右衛門)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫)
 
Plays: Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵);
Yakko Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/25
Print Date: 01/1925?
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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yakko-dako (奴凧) in Yakko
Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風); Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勸進帳); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ohan
(お半) in Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵). 
 
 


 
 



FEBRUARY 1925

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sukeroku (助六)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Agemaki (揚巻)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/08/25
Print Date: 02/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Personal Collection

Note: The same design was used for an earlier production at
the Kabuki-za in 1915 that also featured Ichimura Uzaemon XV.
 


       
        Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
        Agemaki (揚巻)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六所縁江戸櫻)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯) 
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #2
        Personal Collection

 
 
APRIL 1925


Onoe Baiko 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: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed       
pochibukuro
Image courtesy of Artelino.com



       
        Onoe Baiko 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: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist:  MKamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯) 
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
    `   Series: [Images of Famous Actors
        of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
        Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #1
        Personal Collection


                             
            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: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/01/25
            Print Date: 04/1925?
            Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
            Medium: Lithograph
            Personal Collection

            Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
            appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
            1927.  It is possible that this print reflects Baikô VI's
            performance in that production.
 
 
 


 
 


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精)
 
Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七) in
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安) in Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸) and
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Umeômaru (梅王丸) in Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑).
 
 
 


 
 


MAY 1925

               
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: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
Print Date: 05/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Baikô VI also performed this role opposite
Uzaemon XV  in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1926, but this print more closely resembles a
photograph from the 1925 production.
 
 


JUNE 1925

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

Play:  Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/25
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#4)
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI first played the role of Sayuri in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-za in October 1904.  Depending on the precise
publication date of this print, it is possible that Shunsen
modeled this print after one of Baikô VI's performances
at the Teikoku Gekijô in March 1913, April 1918, or
April 1922.
 
 
 

 
 
 




Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sayuri (小百合)
 
Plays: Ôkurakyô (大蔵卿); Modoribashi (戻橋); Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門);
Futaribakama (二人袴)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/25
Print Date: 06/1925?
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 Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Sakaida Kakiemon
(酒井田柿右衛門) in Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門); Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takasago
Jôbei  (高砂尉兵衛) in Futaribakama (二人袴); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ōe Hiromiori
(大江廣盛),  Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshioka Onijirô (吉岡鬼次郎), and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ichijô Ôkurakyô (一條大蔵卿) in Ôkurakyô (大蔵卿). 
 
 


 
 

 
JULY-AUGUST 1925


Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors
of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #7
Personal Collection

        

        


                     
    Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koito (小糸)

    Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
    (江戸育お祭佐七)
    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
    Performance Date: 07/01/25
    Print Date: 07/1925?
    Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
    Medium: Lithograph
    Personal Collection


        

        


               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Oiwa-sama (お岩様)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/25
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 4
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

OCTOBER 1925







Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Saibôzu Nishizumi (斉坊主西住)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koume (小梅)
 
Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
in Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火); and  Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hirano Saemon-no-jô
(平ノ左衛門尉) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren (日蓮) in Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人).
 
 
 



NOVEMBER 1925


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Komurasaki Miuraya (三浦屋小柴)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
 
Plays: Maimôsu Iro no Tanemaki (舞奏いろの蒔種); Ehon Taikôki  (本太功記);
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); Rakuhoku no Aki (洛北の秋);
Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (権八小紫其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/25
Print Date: 11/1925?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Takechi
Jûjirô (武智十次郎) in Ehon Taikôki  (本太功記); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yazaemon
(弥左衛門) and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yasuke (弥助) in Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本櫻).
 
 
 



JANUARY 1926


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sumizome (墨染)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sekibei jitsu ha Ōtomo no Kuronushi (関兵衛 実ハ大伴黒主)
 
Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松); Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); Haru no Shirabe Musume
Nanakusa (春調娘七種); Kyôran Kumoi no Sode (狂乱雲井袖); Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tenmei Tarô (天明太郎) in
Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Furuteya Hachirobei
(古手屋八郎兵衛) in Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Uratayu (浦太夫) in Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松).
 
 
 



APRIL 1926


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shinonome (東雲)
 
Plays: Nigatsudô (二月堂); Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅); Inaka Genji Tsuyu no Shinonome
(田舎源氏露東雲); Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/26
Print Date: 04/1926?
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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rôben Daisôjô (良辨大僧正)
in Nigatsudô (二月堂); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kazusa (上總)  and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実) in Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji
(源平魁躑躅); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kurotegumi Sukeroku
(黒手組助六) in Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引).
 
 
 



JUNE 1926


Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ikushima Shingorô (生島新五郎)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ejima (江島)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tatsuma Saburôbei (達摩三郎兵衛)
 
Plays: Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); Sangoku Musô Hisago no Gunpai (三國無双瓢軍配);
Genboku to Chôei (玄朴と長英);  Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/26
Print Date: 06/1926?
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  Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺所化清心)
in Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫); and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Takano Choei (高野長英) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Genpaku (玄朴) in Genboku to
Chôei (玄朴と長英).
 
 
 



OCTOBER 1926


Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as ?
 
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as  ?
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as ?
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as ?
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Tachiba Taheiji (立場太平次)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Torazô (虎蔵), actually Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)  
      
Plays: Kazumiya-sama Otsukai (和宮様御使); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Katakiuchi Gappô-ga-Tsuji (敵討合法辻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/26
Print Date: 10/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



NOVEMBER 1926           


[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
 
 

         

            
            Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as
            Michitose (三千歳)
           
            Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai
            (河内山と直侍)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 11/01/26
            Publication Date: 1927
            Artist: ?

           
 
 
 
 

                                    
                Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kurayami no Ushimatsu (くらやみの丑松)
 
                Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳)
 
                Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takega (丈賀)
 
                Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
 
                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)
 
                Plays: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍); Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date:  11/01/26
                Print Date: 11/1926?
                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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toriyama Inuchiyo
                (鳥山犬千代) in Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚).
 
 
 



JANUARY 1927   


Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as Koito (小糸)
 
Plays: Yûshoku Kamakura  (有職鎌倉山); Koito Sashichi Honchô Itoya Musume (小糸佐七本町糸屋の娘);
Shakkyô (石橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/05/27
Print Date: 01/1927?
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 Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as [The Spirit of the Parent Lion]
Oya shishi no Sei (親獅子の精) in Shakkyô (石橋); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Sano Hyôe
(佐野兵衛),  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sano Genzaemon (佐野源左衛門), and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Miura Arajirō Yoshizumi (三浦荒次郎義澄) in Yûshoku Kamakura
(有職鎌倉山).
 
 

 

 
 
FEBRUARY 1927


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
as Okaru (おかる)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko
(道行旅路花聟) between Acts IV and
V of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
1st Collection] Butai Emaki dai
1-shû (舞台絵巻 第1集)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 


APRIL 1927

                    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Magarikane no Kingorô (曲金の金五郎)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (かさね)
 
Plays: Zenzen Taieiki (前々太平記); Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Kasane Monogatari (累物語); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶;
武蔵坊弁慶) and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門) in
Kanjinchô (勸進帳); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Shinobu (信夫) in
Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺).
 
 
 



JUNE 1927



                    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (お富; おとみ)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
 
Plays: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Saruhiki Fukudayu
(猿曳福太夫) in Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿); and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai
Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実) and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Midaroku ( 弥陀六) in
Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記).
 
 
 

OCTOBER 1927 


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kofuji (小ふじ)
 
Plays:  Goemon no Kama (五右衛門の釜); Hamamatsu Kaze Koi no Utabito (濱松風戀歌);
Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono  (大杯觴酒戦強者); Shanto Kangen ( 社頭諫言);
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/27
Print Date: 10/1927?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren Shonin (日蓮上人) in
Shanto Kangen ( 社頭諫言); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kawachi no Hara Gorô (河内の原五郎)
and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Genshichi (源七) in Goemon no Kama (五右衛門の釜);
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Benten Kozô Kikunosuke (弁天小僧菊之助) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪); and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Baba Sarurobê (馬塲三郎兵衛) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono  (大杯觴酒戦強者).
 
 
 
 

 

 
 



NOVEMBER 1927

                    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ono Kudayû (斧九太夫)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Wakasanosuke (若狭之助)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okura (おかる)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Play:  Chûshingura (忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/27
Print Date: 11/1927?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



JANUARY 1928


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki  Dôji (茨木童子)

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 depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Sanbasô (三番叟) in Ayatsuri
Sanbasô (操り三番叟); 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); 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).
 
 
 



JUNE 1928


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
 
Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五山桐); Murai Chôan Takumi no Yaregasa (村井長庵巧破傘); 
Urami Kuzu Tsuyu ni Nuregime ( 恨葛露濡衣); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/28
Print Date: 06/1928?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mashiba Hisayoshi
(羽柴久吉) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Goemon (五右衛門) in Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(樓門五山桐); and Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Osamu Iesada (御家定), Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
as Kaizaka no Chûgi (貝坂の忠義), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hayabusa Sanji
(早乗三次), and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Murai Chôan (村井長庵) in Murai Chôan Takumi
no Yaregasa (村井長庵巧破傘).

 
 



OCTOBER 1928

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tomomori No Rei  (知盛の霊)
 
Plays: Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜淵双級巴);  Chôryô Heisho no Tamamono (張良兵書賜);
Hizakurige (膝栗毛); Funa Benkei (船辨慶); [Miss Ruth Page Dance] Ruusu Pêji Joshi Buyô
(ルウス・ペエヂ女史舞踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/02/28
Print Date: 10/1928?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門),
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kinoshita Tôkichi (此下藤吉), and Onoe Kôzô II
(尾上幸蔵) as Gorôbei (五郎兵衛) n Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜淵双級巴); and Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tachimen Yajirobé (栃面屋弥次郎兵衛) in Hizakurige (膝栗毛).
 
 
 



NOVEMBER 1928

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Maizuru (舞鶴)
 
Plays: Saigou to Ôkubo (西郷と大久保); On'na Shibaraku (女暫); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵); Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛); Kioi Jishi Minori no Iwai (勢獅子大典奉祝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The character of Tomoe Gozen was changed to Maizuru for some reason.   The cover also
depicts Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Gozaemon (五左衛門興) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵);
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛) in Ogurusu no Chôbê
(小栗栖の長兵衛);  and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Saigo Takamori (西郷隆盛) and Morita
Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Okubo Toshimichi (大久保利通) in Saigou to Ôkubo (西郷と大久保).
 
 
 
 



JANUARY 1929

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (かさね)
 
Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑); Gion Sairei Shinkôki
(祇園祭礼信仰記); Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame
(色彩間苅豆); and Kami no Megumi Wagô no
Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/29
Print Date: 01/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The cover depicts Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Tatsugorô (辰五郎), Onoe
Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Mokuzô (杢蔵), and Morita
Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kisaburô
(喜三郎) in Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組); Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Umeômaru (梅王丸) in Sugawara
Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); and
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Yuki-hime (雪姫) in Gion Sairei Shinkôki
(祇園祭礼信仰 記).          
 
 
 
   



APRIL 1929




Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Hôjô Ryônen (方丈了念)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tsuchiya Naiki (槌谷内記)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Uba Otsuji (乳母お辻)
 
Plays:  Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Hana no Ueno Homare no Ishibumi (花上野譽碑);
Genji Eboshi (源氏烏帽子); Inazuma Zôshi (稲妻草子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/29
Print Date: 04/1929?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nagoya Sansan
(名古屋山三) in Inazuma Zôshi (稲妻草子); and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nawa
Nagatoshi (名和長年) in Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年).
 
 
 



JUNE 1929


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tokiwa Gozen (常磐御前; 常盤御前)
 
Plays:  Nishiyama Monogatari (西山物語); Yuki no Tokiwa (雪常磐); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Echigo no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Ryôkan to Komori (良寛と子守)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/29
Print Date: 06/1929?
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 Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Yoriki Ishiko Bansaku (與力石子伴作) in Echigo
no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ryôkan (良寛) in Ryôkan to Komori
(良寛と子守); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶), and  Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門).





JULY 1929

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん; 油屋お紺))

Play:  Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭恋寝刃;  伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/29
Print Date: [1929]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Baikô VI first performed the role of  Okon in
Tokyo at the Tokyo Gekijô in October 1909.  He reprised
the role at the Teikoku Gekijô in June 1920.
 
 
 
  

OCTOBER 1929


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamamo no Mae (玉藻の前)
 
Plays:  Dôgen to Tokiyori  (道元と時頼); Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐); Sono Omokage Kijin Kagami
(其俤鬼人鏡); Kusatsu Uba-ga-mochi (草津姥ヶ餅)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/29
Print Date: 10/1929?
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 Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Shinsuke (親助) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kuwanaya Tokubei (桑名屋徳兵衛) in Sono Omokage Kijin Kagami
(其俤鬼人鏡); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tokiyori (時頼) and Matsumoto Kôshirô
VII (松本幸四郎) as Dôgen (道元) in Dôgen to Tokiyori  (道元と時頼).
 
 
 



NOVEMBER 1929




Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Otoku (おとく)
 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Gappô Dôshin (合邦道心)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamate Gozen (玉手御前)
 
Plays:  Okumura Ioko (奥村五百子); Sesshû Gappô-ga-Tsuji (攝州合邦辻);
San'nin Kichisa Tomoe no Shiranami (三人吉三巴白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/29
Print Date: 11/1929?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ojô Kichiza (お嬢吉三),
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Obô Kichisa (お坊吉三), and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Oshô Kichisa (和尚吉三) in San'nin Kichisa Tomoe no Shiranami (三人吉三巴白浪).
 
 
 



 
MAY 1932



Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki (茨木)

Play: Ibaraki (茨木)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/1932
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kikuchi Zenjirô (菊池善二郎; 菊池善次郎)
Published in Shin Hanga (新版画), Vol. 7 (January 1, 1933)
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI performed this role in eleven prior productions
in Tokyo between March 1912 and September 1929.
 
 
 


    


OCTOBER 1933




                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/33
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#14)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Baikô VI died on November
8, 1934 at age 65.  He first played the role of Togakushi
no Kijo in this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1903.
Although Baikô VI's final Tokyo appearance in this role
was in October 1933, it is possible that Gakô based this
print on one of Baikô VI's prior performances.

           

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/33
Print Date: 1953
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#9)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Baikô VI first played the role of Togakushi no Kijo in
this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1903.  Although
Baikô VI's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in
October 1933, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Baikô VI's prior performances.


OCTOBER 1934

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as 
Onatsu (お夏; 緒夏; おなつ)

Play:  Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/34
Print Date: 1935
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection (#159/500)

Note:  This print was commissioned after Baikô VI's death.
It is possible that it was issued in the same wrapper as the
Baikô VI shini-e  shown below.  Baikô VI first performed
the role of Onatsu in September 1914 at the Teikoku
Gekijô in Tokyo.  He is also known to have performed the
role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in October 1921,
October 1925, and June 1930.  It is possible that this
print is based on one of those earlier performances.
 





NOVEMBER 1934

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸)  Shini-e (Death Print)

Print Date: 1935
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  Onoe Baikô VI was born on the 15th day of the tenth
lunar month of 1870 and died on November 8, 1934.
 
 
 




                   
Wrapper for the Baikô VI Shini-e

Print Date: 1935
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is possible that the print of Baikô VI as Onatsu was also issued with this wrapper

                   

Hirakana Seisuiki Senjin Mondo, Shôwa Kyûnen Jûgatsu Kabuki-za (ひらかな盛衰記の先陣問答, 昭和九年十一月歌舞伎座)

Play: Senjin Mondo (先陣問答), Act 2 of Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/34
Print Date: 11/1934
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Image courtesy of Mike Peters

Note: Although Hasui may not have known the actors when he designed the set, the cast in this production included Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Chidori (千鳥), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Enju (延寿), and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue  (梶原源太景季).