Paul Binnie

PAUL BINNIE

1994

JANUARY

Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play: Kagekiyo (景清)
[Ôichô Sakae Kagekiyo (大銀杏榮景清)]
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/94
Print Date: 04-05/94
Print Title: Kagekiyo (景清)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#64/80)

Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play: Kagekiyo (景清)
[Ôichô Sakae Kagekiyo (大銀杏榮景清)]
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/94
Print Date: 1996
Print Title: Grey Danjûrô [Gurê Danjuro (グレー団十郎)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection

Note: This copy was printed "hors série" on grey, rather than on
black, washi paper.

APRIL

Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎)
as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/94
Print Date: 09-10/1994
Print Title: Kanjinchô Benkei (勧進帳弁慶)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#6/80)

                 Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
`                Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

                 Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act III of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
                 (雷神不動北山櫻) [Act II in modern productions]
                 Performance Place: ?
                 Performance Date: ?
                 Print Date: 04/1994
                 Print Title: Kenuki (毛抜)
                 Medium: Kappazuri print
                 Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
                 Personal Collection (#10/80)

                 Note: This print would seem to have been based on a special gala
                 performance or a prior broadcast recording of Danjûrô XII's
                 performance. Danjûrô XII's last regular performance as
                 Kumedera Danjô prior to the creation of this print that I could
                 find was at the Minami-za, Kyoto, in October 1992 before Binnie
                 arrived in Tokyo. Danjûrô XII also performed the role at the
                 Kokuritsu Gekijō, Tokyo, in June 1991 and at the Kabuki-za,
                 Tokyo, in September 1990 and, as Ichikawa Ebizô X, at the
                 Kokuritsu Gekijō, Tokyo, in June 1982 and July 1973.

JUNE

Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as Narukami (鳴神)

Play: Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻) [Act III, Scene 3 in modern
productions]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/94
Print Date: 06/1994
Print Title: Narukami (鳴神)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#17/80)

JULY

Ichikawa Danshirô IV (市川段四郎) as Benkei (弁慶)

Play: Gohiki Kanjinchô (御摂勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/94
Print Date: 06/1996
Print Title: Danshirô - Benkei (段四郎 - 弁慶)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#17/100)

                  Ichikawa Danshirô IV (市川段四郎) as Benkei (弁慶)

                  Play: Gohiki Kanjinchô (御摂勧進帳)
                  Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                  Performance Date: 07/03/94
                  Print Date: 06/1996
                  Print Title: Danshirô - Benkei (段四郎 - 弁慶)
                  Image courtesy of Sarugallery.com

                  Note: Test proof

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Agemaki (揚巻)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 07/1994
Print Title: Agemaki (揚巻)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#16/20)

Note: This print would seem to have been based on a special gala
performance or a prior broadcast recording of Tamasaburô V's
performance. Tamasaburô V's last regular performance as Agemaki
prior to the creation of this print that I could find was at the Kabuki-
za, Tokyo, in March 1991. He also previously performed the role at
the Kabuki-za in March 1983 and January 1988.

                Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Agemaki (揚巻)

                Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: 07/1994
                Print Title: Agemaki (揚巻)
                Medium: Kappazuri fan print
                Personal Collection

                Note: This print would seem to have been based on a special gala
                performance or a prior broadcast recording of Tamasaburô V's
                performance. Tamasaburô V's last regular performance as Agemaki
                prior to the creation of this print that I could find was at the Kabuki-
                za, Tokyo, in March 1991. He also previously performed the role at
                the Kabuki-za in March 1983 and January 1988. The print was
                mounted on this fan sometime in the mid-1990s.

SEPTEMBER

Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as
Tenmaya Ohatsu (天満屋お初)

Play: Sonezaki Shinjû (曽根崎心中)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/02/1994
Print Date: 09/1996
Print Title: Ganjirô - Sonezaki Shinjû (鴈治郎 - 曽根崎心中)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#18/100)

                  Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as
                  Tenmaya Ohatsu (天満屋お初)

                  Play: Sonezaki Shinjû (曽根崎心中)
                  Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                  Performance Date: 09/02/94
                  Print Date: 09/1996
                  Print Title: Ganjirô - Sonezaki Shinjû (鴈治郎 - 曽根崎心中)
                  Image courtesy of Sarugallery.com

                  Note: Test proof I

                  Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as
                Tenmaya Ohatsu (天満屋お初)

                  Play: Sonezaki Shinjû (曽根崎心中)
                  Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                  Performance Date: 09/02/94
                  Print Date: 09/1996
                  Print Title: Ganjirô - Sonezaki Shinjû (鴈治郎 - 曽根崎心中)
                  Personal Collection

                  Note: Test proof II

                 Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

                 Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
                 (加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
                 Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                 Performance Date: 09/02/94
                 Print Date: 06/1997
                 Print Title: Shikan - Ohatsu (芝翫 - お初)
                 Personal Collection

               Note: Color test print

                Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

                Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
                (加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 09/02/94
                Print Date: 03/2008
                Print Title: Narikomaya no Mudagaki (成駒屋のむだ書)
                Medium: color woodblock (background and keyblock
                outline) with kappazuri coloring
                Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
                Personal Collection (#7/35)

NOVEMBER

Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as the Snake Spirit
[Shirabyōshi Hanako (白拍子花子)]

Play: Unknown Dôjôjimono play
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/1994
Print Title: Onoe Baikô Dôjôji (尾上梅幸道成寺)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#33/35)

Note: Baikô VII's only known appearances in this role during
Binnie's time in Japan were in Meoto Dôjôji (男女道成寺) at
the Misono-za in Nagoya in October 1993 and in Kyōganoko
Musume Sannin Dôjôji (京鹿子娘三人道成寺) at the Kabuki-za
in Tokyo in November 1992 (with fellow Otowaya Guiild
members Onoe Kikugorô VII and Onoe Ushinosuke VI).
However, Baikô VII performed the role of Hanako many
times since the early 1950s, and this print is likely based
on a broadcast recording of one of those earlier performances.

            Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as the Snake Spirit
            [Shirabyōshi Hanako (白拍子花子)]

            Play: Unknown Dôjôjimono play
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: 1994
            Print Title: Onoe Baikô Dôjôji (尾上梅幸道成寺)
            Medium: Kappazuri print
            Personal Collection (#19/20)

            Note: This is a cut down version of the1994
            fan print of Baikô VII as the Snake Spirit. See
            the note for that print for further performance
            information.

DECEMBER

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Shirabyōshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyōganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/94
Print Date: 09/1995
Print Title: Musume Dôjôji (娘道成寺)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#7/~45)

Note: A version (less than 20) was also printed in
aniline colors.

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Shirabyōshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyōganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/94
Print Date: 09-10/1996
Print Title: Dojôji bôshi odori (道成寺帽子踊り)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#22/50)