Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七) aka Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)

EDO SODACHI OMATSURI SASHICHI
(江戸育お祭佐七)

aka OMATSURI SASHICHI (お祭佐七)

JUNE 1917

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #A]
Personal Collection

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: 09/15/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #?
[Fujisawa Print Set #1]
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
Personal Collection

                    Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
                    Otestu (お鐵; おてつ)

                    Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
                    (江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
                    Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
                    Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 06/01/17
                    Print Date: ?
                    Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
                    (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
                    Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
                    Dainihen Series 2
                    (歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #?
                    [Fujisawa Print Set #2]
                    *Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi
(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: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #A]
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi
(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: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: 09/15/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #?
[Fujisawa Print Set #1]
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (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: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
Personal Collection

Plays: Mito Kômonki (水戸黄門記); Inaka Genji Tsuyu no Shinonome (田舎源氏露東雲);
Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/17
Print Date: 06/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

APRIL 1921

L: Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Danshichi Kurobei
(団七九郎兵衛);
R: Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)

Play: L: Sono Sugata Danshichi
Jima (其姿団七縞);
R: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri
Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七 )
Performance Place: L: Meiji-za,
Tokyo;
R: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: L: 04/03/21
R: 02/06/21
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

                Ôkabuki Engei Sugoroku (大歌舞伎演藝双六)
                Print Date: 04/05/21
                Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
                Personal Collection

5. Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)

JULY 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: [mages of Famous Actors
of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) [#C]
Personal Collection

        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七;
        お祭左七)

        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) [#C]
        Personal Collection

                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 (江戸育お祭佐七)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 07/01/25
                Print Date: 071925?
                Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
                Medium: Lithograph
                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

JANUARY 1928

[1928 Calendar] Showa San Kotobuki Tatsu Nichiyô Kagami (昭和三寿辰日曜鑑)

January: Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致) and Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成) in a
Sogamono such as
Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)
February: ?
March: Ōtomo Kuronushi (大伴黒主) in Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪關扉)
April: Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
May: Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
June: Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七) in Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七)
July: possibly Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平) and Okura (お軽) in Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
August: ?
September: ?
October: Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
November: Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) in Shibaraku (暫)
December: Fujiya Izaemon (伊佐衛門) in Kuruwa Bunshô Yoshidaya
(廊文章吉田屋; 廓文章吉田屋)

Print Date: 01/1928
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Magazine: New Year's Appendix to Engei Shashin (演芸写真), Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan. 1928)
Medium: Machine printing

Note: Hasui designed 34 machine-printed covers for Engei Shashin (and its precedessor
Engei Shashin Chô) between October 1925 and July 1928. Many of these issues contained
machine-printed forntispieces. Since they were offset printed, they are outside the scope
of this website. An exception, however, has been made for this calendar, which appears to
be unique in the Hasui canon.

c. 1930-1931

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七; 御祭佐七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七; 江戸育御祭佐七)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Print Date: [1930-1931]
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: The only record I can find of Kikugorô VI
performing this role in Tokyo was at the Ichimura-za in
June 1914. Presumably, this print is based on a later
performance outside of Tokyo, such as in Yokohama.

MAY 1987

Kawarazaki Gonjurô III (河原崎権十郎) as Sashichi (佐七)

Play: Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)
[Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育御祭佐七)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/87
Print Date: 06/1987
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Figures of the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Roku Sugata
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六姿)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences I (01/1999).

Reminiscences I (思い出 I)

Print Date: 01/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#15/72)

Note: 35 copies from the edition of 72 were never printed. Given
the difficulty in photographing this print in view of its large size, I
have used the image on the Kôkei website in lieu of one of my
own numbered copy. This print contains larger versions of the
following actors' faces (left to right starting at the top row):

1. Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as Tsurigane Gonsuke (釣鐘権助) in
Sakurahime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/1981).
2. Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (澤村宗十郎) as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
3. Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Kawashô, Act I of Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (1979/01/1979).
4. Onoe Tatsunosuke I (尾上辰之助) as Naosuke Gonbê (直助権兵衛) in
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談),Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/02/1983).
5. Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景情) in
Kagekiyo (景清), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/02/1984).
6. Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧) in
Yoshidaya (吉田屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1983).
7. Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉)/Byakko (白狐) in
Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/01/1986).
8. Kawarazaki Gonjurô III (河原崎権十郎) as Sashichi (佐七) in
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1987).
9. Nakamura Tomijûrô V (中村富十郎) as Kô no Moronô (高師直) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1986).
10. Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門) as Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助) in
Keya-mura (毛谷村), Act IX of Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
(彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1997).
11. Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門) as Sakuraya Koman (桜屋小万) in
Godairiki Koi no Fujime (五大力恋緘), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (09/01/1989).
12. Ichikawa Danshirô IV ( 市川段四郎) as Yasha Gorô (夜叉五郎) in
Jiraiya (児雷也), Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo (11/01/1992).

UNKNOWN DATES

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (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: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Personal Collection

Note: The only record I can find of Kikugorô VI performing this role was at the Ichimura-za in
June 1914. Presumably, that production toured Osaka around that time.

        Ichimura Uzaemon XV
         (市村羽左衛門) as
        Omatsuri Sashichi
        (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: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Uzaemon XV performed this
        role seven times between October 1908
        and May 1942. Presumably one of
        these productions toured Osaka.

        ? as Omatsuri Sashichi
        (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: ?
       Performance Date: ?
         Print Date: ?
         Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
         (長谷川貞信)
         Medium: Woodblock printed
         pochibukuro
         Personal Collection

        Omatsuri Sashichi
        (御祭佐七; お祭佐七; お祭左七)

        Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
        (江戸育お祭佐七)
        Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Kaburagi Kiyokata (鏑木清方)
        Courtesy of Artelino.com

? as Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七 )
Performance Place:?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育御祭佐七)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Edo Yukari Shibai no Kakinuki
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

            Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七;
            お祭左七)

            Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
            (江戸育お祭佐七)
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
            Series: **** Omokage (****面影)
            Personal Collection