KEISEI AWA NO NARUTO
(順礼阿波鳴門; けいせい阿波鳴門)

aka KEISEI UTA AWA NO NARUTO (順礼歌阿波鳴門)
aka KUNI NAMARI FUTABA NO OIZURU (國訛嫩笈摺)
aka DONDORO (どんどろ)

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

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

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

            
            Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Oyumi (お弓)    
           
            Play: Dondoro (どんどろ)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/08/12
            Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

            Note: While Shunsen has written "中村梅玉," the program uses kanji that
            resembles "中村梅崔."  Could this be Nakamura Baijaku I (中村梅雀)?

                 
 
Plays: Goban Tadanobu Genji Ishizue (碁盤忠信源氏礎); Dondoro (どんどろ); Ôshû Adachi-ga-Hara
(奥州安達原); Ittô Ryû Narita no Kakegaku (一刀流成田掛額); Hashi Benkei  (橋弁慶)
Performance Place: Kiraku-za, Yokohama
Performance Date: 07/15/13
Print Date: 07/15/13
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞) 
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Otsuru (おつる)

Oyumi ()お弓)

Play: Keisei Uta Awa no Naruto (順礼歌阿波鳴門)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu IV (長谷川貞信)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #10
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: A different copy of this print was stored in folder #4, calling into '
question which folder was issued with which print.
 
 
 

               
"Actor" after Kunishige
 
Print Date: 1979 (ed. 40)
Artist: Michael Knigin/Kunishige (*****)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: The Japanese Suite
 
Note: The actor in the original March 1849 Kunishige print was
Nakamura Karoku I (中村歌六) as Oyumi (お弓) in the play Keisei
Awa no Naruto (順礼阿波鳴門).