KIWAMETSUKI BANZUI CHÔBEI
(極付幡随長兵衛)

aka YUDONO NO CHÔBEI (湯殿の長兵衛)
aka BANZUI CHÔBEI (幡随長兵衛)
 



SEPTEMBER 1910

                 
 
Plays: Taiheki Asuwa Gassen (太平記足羽合戦); Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戦強者);
Taira no Koremori (平維盛); Banzui Chôbê (幡随長兵衛); Ni Fûfu (二夫婦)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/14/10
Print Date: 09/16/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum





MAY 1914


Issei Ichidai Appare Sugoroku (一世一代天晴双六)

Print Date: January 1, 1914
Artist: Igawa Sengai (井川洗厓)
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Published by Kodan Kurabu, No. 15 No. 1 New Year Issue Appendix.



           
           

                      
        

       
        Banzui-in Chôbee (幡随院長兵衛)
        Artist: Igawa Sengai (井川洗厓)
                      
       



OCTOBER 1915


Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Banzuiin Chôbei (幡随長兵衛;  幡随院長兵衛)

Play: Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               


Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 
澤村宗之助) as Mizuno (水野)

Play: Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
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

               

                 
 
Plays: Shiranui Monogatari (白縫譚); Hitotsuya (一つ家);  Fumi Hiroge (文ひろげ);
Banzui Chôbê (幡随長兵衛); Shitto (嫉妬)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/15
Print Date: 10/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 


MARCH 1917


Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbei
(極附幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro
Set #3]
Personal Collection
 



               

               


Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbei
(極附幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

                                    
                Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
                Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)

                Play:  Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbei (極附幡随長兵衛)
                Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 03/05/17
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
                Medium: Woodblock print
                [Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
                Personal Collection




Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Mizuno Jûrôzaemon (水野十郎左衛門)
           
Play: Kiwametsuki Banzuiin Chôbê (極附幡随長兵衛)    
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/15/17
Print Date: 03/1917?
Artist: Baido Kunihide (梅堂国秀)
Series: Shin Kyogen (新狂言) #2
Personal Collection
 
 
 


OCTOBER 1919


Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Banzui Chôbêi (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbêi
(極附幡随長兵衛; 極付幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1919
Print Date: 1919?
Artist: ?
*Image courtesy of the Smithsonian's
American Museum of Asian Art

Note: The American Museum of Asian
Art attributes this print to Natori Shunsen,
but the signature on this print does not appear
to be that of Shunsen.  Kichiemon I also
performed this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-
za in March 1909 and at the Meiji-za in June
1928, as well as at various venues thereafter, 
but in size and style it is more like the actor
prints being produced in the late 1910s.
Around this time Kichiemon also portrayed
Banzui Chôbêi in Hanakawado Uwasa no
Naita (花川戸噂の爼板), a version of
Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森) at the Ichimura-za
in November 1916, but the costume is more
consistent with a production of Kiwametsuki
Banzui Chôbêi.
 
 
 
 

UNKNOWN DATES


Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Chôbei (長兵衛)

Play: Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
  
Note: Kichiemon I first
performed this role at the
Ichimura-za in May 1909.
His final performance in
Tokyo was at the Kabuki-
za in September 1953.
                    
         

               


Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Chôbei (長兵衛)

Play: Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  07/29/39
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Personal Collection
  
Note: Kichiemon I first performed this role at the Ichimura-za in May 1909.  This appears to have been a
private commission for some group.  As Hanayama was not known to be actively designing print in the
late 1930s, this print likely recycles a Hanayama design from the 1920s. I have not been able to find a
contemporaneous performance of Banzuin Chôbei in Tokyo, though it could reflect a performance outside
of Tokyo during the summer of 1939.
                    
         

               

                            
                Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
                Chôbei (長兵衛)

                Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ? 
                Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)