Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Nowake-hime Rei (野分姫霊)


Play: Sumidagawa Zoku Omokage
(墨田川続俤; 隅田川続俤)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
 Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/07/02
Print Date: 07/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

   Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
   Hôkaibô (法界坊)
 

Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川壽美蔵) as
Hôkaibô (法界坊)

Play: Hôkaibô (法界坊)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Ogawa Hyôe (小川兵衛)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao) 
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
  

                 
 
Plays: Hototogisu Asama no Nishikie (早苗鳥浅間錦繪); Noboru Asahi (昇る旭);
Ishi no Haha (醫師の母); Hôkaibô (法界坊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/16
Print Date: 05/1916?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                   

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/31
Print Date: 03/1931?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The seller atrributed the authorship to
Kiyotada IV.  The plays on the bill were Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Takasebune
(高瀬舟), Futa Omote Shinobu no Sugatae
(双面葱姿絵), and Sumidagawa Gonichi no
Omokage (隅田川続俤).
 
 
 
 

Hôkaibô (法界坊)
           
Play: Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage
(隅田川続俤; 隅田川續俤)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color on verso
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note:  It is unclear whether this print depicts a specific actor in the role
of Hôkaibô.  However, it is possible that it depicts Nakamura Kanzaburô
XVI (中村勘三郎), who portrayed Hokaibo in a production of
Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage at the Kabuki-za i, Tokyo in August
1951 and at the Mitsukoshi Gekijô in Tokyo in February 1950.
   
 
 

                 
Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門) as
Okumi (おくみ)

Play: Futa Omote Mizu no Terutsuki (双面水照月)
[Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage
(隅田川続俤)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/65
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Ghost (亡霊) of Hôkaibô (法界坊) and Nowake-hime (野分姫)

Play: Hôkaibô (法界坊)
[Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage (隅田川続俤)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1982
Print Date: 09/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 7)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 7 (第三期大首絵シリーズの7)
Personal Collection (#15/27)
 

                   
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Watashimori Oshizu (渡し守おしづ)

Play: Hôkaibô (法界坊)
[Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage (隅田川続俤)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1982
Print Date: 09/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 8)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 8
(第三期大首絵シリーズの8)
Personal Collection (#3/27)
 
 
 
 

               
Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (澤村宗十郎) as
Watashimori Oshizu (渡し守おしづ)

Play: Hôkaibô (法界坊)
[Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage (隅田川続俤)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/94  
Print Date: 09/1994
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits X (Design 3)]
Daijû-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 3
(第十期大首絵シリーズの3)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

Okumi (おくみ)
 
Dance: Futa Omote (双面)
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochikuburo
Series: [Ten Aspects of Dance]
Buyô Jyû-shû no Uchi
(舞踊十種之内) Vol. 1
Personal Collection