DAN NO URA KABUTO GUNKI
(壇浦兜軍記)

 

Note: The only surviving act of Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki is Act III called "Akoya (阿古屋)."
 
 

MAY 1900

 
Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎:
 市川權十郎) as
Hanzawa Rokurô (半沢六郎)



Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki
(壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/1900
Print Date: 05/1900?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Metropolitan Central Library
 
 



Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as
Akoya (あこや)

Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Hatakeyama Shigetada (畠山重忠)






   Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
   市川小團次) as
   Iwanaga Saemon (岩永左衛門)


 

SEPTEMBER 1901


Sawamura Tosshi VII
(沢村訥子;  澤村訥子)  as
Hanzawa Rokurô (半沢六郎)




 
Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto
Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: Ichimura
-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/25/01
Print Date: 09/1901?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Metropolitan Central Library
 
Note:  This design was
originally used in connection
with a May 1900 production
at the Meiji-za. 
 
 
 
  


Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Akoya (あこや)

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫)
as Hatakeyama Shigetada
(畠山重忠)


Sawamura Tosshô III(沢村訥升;
 澤村訥舛;澤村訥升) as
Iwanaga Saemon (岩永左衛門)
 

SEPTEMBER 1910

                 
 
Plays: Jitsuroku Sakura Sôgo (実録佐倉宗吾); Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki  (檀浦兜軍記);
Takayama Hikokurô  (高山彦九郎); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (桜鍔恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: Tôkyô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/09/10
Print Date: 09/12/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Chônosuke III (沢村長之助; 澤村長之助) in an
unknown role.
 





FEBRUARY 1916

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada (秩父庄司重忠)
 
Plays: Hinazuru Sanbasô (雛鶴三番叟); Hikô Geigi (飛行藝妓); Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記);
Iden (遺傳); Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




1925-1926

                 
Iwanaga Saemon (岩永左衛門)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
Personal Collection 
 
 


1926


Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki
(壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/20/26
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 1 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物 大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum 
 
 




   Yû-kun Akoya (遊君阿古屋)
'




   Iwanaga Saemon (岩永左衛門)
'


Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada
(秩父庄司重忠)
'


Placement of characters on stage design
'


  Stage Design
'


1943


Kataoka Nizaemon XII (片岡仁左衛門)
as Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki
(壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1943
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Nizaemon XII played this role at
the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in June 1941.
That production likely toured Osaka
around that time.
 
 
 



       

1963

                   
Keisei Akoya (傾城阿古屋)

Play:   Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hanabusa Hideki (花房英樹)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #7
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

UNKNOWN DATES

                   
[Iwanaga Saemon (岩永左衛門)] ?

[Yû-kun Akoya (遊君阿古屋)] ?

[Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada (秩父庄司重忠)] ?

Play:  [Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)]
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection





                 
Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)
Print Date:  ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed New Year's card
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 



                 
Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki ((壇浦兜軍記)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Etching (ed. 30)
 
Note:  In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

 
 
 




Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki
(壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: pre-1936
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
Note: Gadô IV performed this role at the
Teikoku Gekijô in Tokyo in May 1931.  That
production likely played in Osaka or Kyoto
around that time.