ONOE EIZABURÔ VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)
1899 - 05/07/1926
aka ONOE USHINOSUKE III (尾上丑之助)
Play: Tadanao Kyô Gyôjyôki (忠直卿行状記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/22
Print Date: 05/1922?
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: Also on the bill were Tachi Nusubito
(太刀盗人), Heikegani (平家蟹), Shinkei
Kasane-ga Fushi (真景累ヶ渕), and Shinobi
Yoru Koi no Kusemono (忍夜恋曲者).
The cast included Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥), Onoe Eizaburô VII
(尾上 栄三郎), Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸), and Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎).
Onoe Eizaburô VII
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Osato (お里)
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/12/24
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
Note: Eizaburô VII died on May 7,
1926.
Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Oshichi (お七)
Play: Kichisama Mairu Yukari no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/25
Print Date: 09/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
Note: Eizaburô VII also played Oshichi in a production of
Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三) at the Hôgaku-za, Tokyo, in
December 1924. I cannot rule out the possibility
that this print reflects Eizaburô VII's December 1924
performance.
FEBRUARY 1926
Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)
Play: Kanpei Harakiri (勘平腹切), Act 6 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#11)
Personal Collection
Note: Some authorities date this print to 1925, but I have found
no record of Eizaburô VII performing this role prior to February
1926.
[Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
[Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
(直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)
Print Date: c. 1920s
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
by Shikô in the 1920s. See, for example, Shikô's
1924 print of Oschichi.
Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上榮三郎) as
Satsuki (皐月)
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Shimizu Miezo (清水三重三)
Image courtesy of Wei Lin
Note: This fan print appears to have been
made to advertise a
brand of beer.