TSUWAMONO KONGEN SOGA
(兵根元曾我)

aka FUDÔ (不動) 

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Fudô Myôô (不動明王)I
 
Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Miyoshino (侍三吉)
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例寿曽我); Shinagawa no Daiba (品川の台場); Fudô (不動);
Ittô Ryû Narita no Kakegaku (一刀流成田掛額); Shôchikubai Yuki Akebono (松竹梅雪曙)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/12
Print Date: 01/1912
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) in an unknown role.
 
 

               
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 09/1915
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print was included in Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 9, No. 9 (Sept. 1915) and may have been issued
separately as a stand-alone print around the same time.  It
was also published as part of a complete set in January 1916.
 
 
   

               
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Kaneko Saburô (金子三郎)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban Gajô (歌舞伎十八番画帖)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

               
Fudô (不動)

Role: Fudô (不動)
Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 06/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 15
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection

Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Fudô no Kuma (不動之隈)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Jûhachiban (隈取十八番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This was a makeup devised by the Ichikawa family.
 
 
 
 

                
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Book: 濤 (おほなみ） by Kunieda Kanji (邦枝完二)
Print Date: August 18, 1943
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Medium: Woodblock printed book cover
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 12/01/53
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 3, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection (#114)
 
 
 
 

               
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen
Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: 10/23/1990
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi
(山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #2
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Series: Kouta Kabuki Jûhachiban (小唄 歌舞伎十八番)
Medium: lithograph or collotype
Personal Collection

Note: The original Shinsui painting upon which this print
is based is dated 1961, so the print would have to be made
on or after that date.  Seeing as the prints were accompanied
by a cassette tape of kouta music, the prints likely date to
the late sixties at the earliest and more likely the 1970s. 

                 
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono
Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune
(鳥居忠宗)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban
(歌舞伎十八番)
*Personal Collection

               
Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga
(兵根元曾我)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 

[Kabuki Jûhachiban  (歌舞伎十八番)] Sugoroku

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Some of the panels bear a passing resemblance to the small size Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番) prints Ota Gakô produced in 1931, but I do not feel that the resemblance
is sufficiently strong as to conclusively attribute the print to Ota.

 
 Fudô Myôô (不動明王)

 Play: Tsuwamono Kongen Soga (兵根元曾我)
Artist: ?