Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Arashi Ganshô I (嵐巌笑) as
Aemaki (揚巻)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Ikyû (意休) 

Play: (Mitate) Sukeroku ([見立] 助六)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/21/1900
Artist: Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川芳幾)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

            
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁次; 郎中村鴈治郎) as
Gorô Tokimune (五郎時宗)

Arashi Ganshô I (嵐巌笑) as Jûrô Sukenari (十郎祐成)
 
Onoe Taminosuke (尾上多見之助) as Toragozen (虎御前)

Play:  Youchi Soga (夜討曽我)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1902
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the
Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
Note: Stylistically, this looks like the early work of Hasegawa Sadanobu III.
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbei (亀屋忠兵衛)                   

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 11/1914?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Personal Collection

Note: This unsigned fan print has been stylistically attributed to
Seifû by the webmaster.  Ganjirô I also performed the same role
in Fuin Giri (封印切), Act I of Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来) at the Minami-za in Kyoto in December 1914. 
However, during the time period that Seifû is known to have
designed prints, he also performed the role at the Naniwa-za in
Osaka in June 1916 and again in February 1919, at the Minami-
za in Kyoto in December 1921, at the Misono-za in Nagoya in
February 1924, at the Naka-za in Osaka in January 1925, at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1926, and at the Naka-za in
Osaka in March 1928, among other appearances.  I cannot
rule out the possibility that this fan print reflects one of those
other performances.
 
 
 

    
Reverse side of fan, presumably also by Seifû
 
Personal Collection


 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 1914?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

 
 
 
 
 

                 
[Hit Play at the Shintomi-za]
Shintomi-za Atari Kyôgen (新富座当り狂言)
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Personal Collection

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Original Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za. Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 1916
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)  as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chushingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 05/1915?Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

Play: Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵), a version of Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/11/16
Print Date: 1916
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai  (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role in the "Fûin
Giri" scene at the Naniwa-za in Osaka in June
1916 opposite Nakamura Fukusuke IV
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Akaneya Hanshichi (赤根屋半七)

Play: Akanezome [Nonaka no Kakure Ido] (あかね染)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/17
Print Date: 1920
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 

Nakamura Ganjiro I
(中村鴈治郎) as
Akaneya Hanshichi (茜屋半七)

Play:  Mikatsu Hanshichi:
Akanezome
(三勝半七 〈〉 あかね染)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛; 紙屋治兵衛)
      
Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/06/17
Print Date: 1917?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: It is possible that this postcard reflects
Ganjirô I's performance at the Shintomi-za in
February 1916.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Kawashô (河庄), Act I of Shinjû Ten no
Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naniwa-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/31/18
Print Date:  01/28/19
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Hyôban Rien Tansei (評判梨園丹青)
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I first portrayed Kamiya Jihê in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-za in October 1906.  He reprised the role at
the Shintomi-za in May 1911 and October 1916, and
at the Kabuki-za in April 1917.  It is possible that this
print depicts one of those earlier performances.
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as
Michizane (道実)
 
Play: Sugawara Denjù
Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑;
菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as 
Sakata Tôjûrô (坂田藤十郎)

Play: Tôjûrô no Koi (藤十郎の恋)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/21; 04/01/21
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#6)
*Personal Collection
 
 
 

L: Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)
as Masauemon (政右衛門);
R: ? as ?
 
Play: L: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六);
R: ?
Performance Place: L: Shintomi-za, Tokyo;
R: ?
Performance Date: L: 10/05/21; R: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Shimizu Kaja Yoshitaka (清水冠者義高)

Play: ?
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ganjirô also performed this play at the Shintomi-za in
Tokyo in November 1922, but I assume that Kanpo, a Kyoto
artist, saw it in Osaka.  It is also possible that it was
performed in  Kyoto somewhere around this same time.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a color variant test print lacking a mica background.
  
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 06/09/23
Print Date: 1923
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Akaneya Hanshichi (赤根屋半七)

Play: Akanezome (あかね染)
Performance Place: Shôchiku Gekijô,
Kobe
Performance Date: 03/01/25
Print Date: 1925?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Artist: Masugawa Chikamine (ます川周峯)
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Sôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#6]
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)   

Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Tonami (戸浪)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)

Ichikawa Ebijûrô VII (市川鰕十郎) as
Shundô Genba (春藤玄蕃)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Konô Michisei (河野通勢)
Series: Kabuki E-ban Gashū (歌舞伎絵版画集)
Personal Collection
 
Note: All but Ebijûrô I performed their particular roles at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in April 1926.  It is unclear if Ebijûrô I
is listed in error, if he was a replacement for the actor
during the run, or if the print actually reflects a performance
on tour and not the one at the Kabuki-za.
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎; 中村鴈治郎) as 
Kameya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play:  Shinjû Kameya Jihê (心中紙屋治兵衛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 04/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Ganjirô I also portrayed Kameya Jihê in a
production of Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
at the Shintomi-za in November 1922.  I cannot rule
out the possibility that this print reflects that
performance.
 
 
 

[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
 
 

                   
                    Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎 as
                    Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

                    Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
                    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 04/01/26
                    Publication Date: 1927
                    Artist: ?
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎; 中村鴈治郎) as 
Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税)

Play:  Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税
Performance Place: Benten-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 07/03/26
Print Date: 07/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Ganjirô I's immediate prior performance
in Tokyo was at the Shintomi-za in April 1921
and his next performance in Tokyo was at the
Kabuki-za in June 1931.
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shigure Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/31
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#15)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Ganjirô I died on February 1, 1935 at
age 76.  He first played the role of Kamiya Jihê in this play
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in October 1906 (he had played
it in Osaka as far back as February 1885).  Although
Ganjirô I's final Tokyo appearance in this role was at the
Kabuki-za in November 1931, it is possible that Gakô
based this print on one of Ganjirô I's prior performances.
(His final Tokyo appearance in the first act, Kawashô
(河庄), was at the Kabuki-za in June 1931.)
 
 
  

               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shigure Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/31
Print Date: 1953
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#11)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ganjirô I first played the role of Kamiya Jihê in this
play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in October 1906 (he had
played it in Osaka as far back as February 1885).  Although
Ganjirô I's final Tokyo appearance in this role was at the
Kabuki-za in November 1931, it is possible that Gakô based
this print on one of Ganjirô I's prior performances.  Indeed,
the actor looks considerably younger here than in Ota's other
portrait of Ganjirô I.  (His final Tokyo appearance in the first
act, Kawashô (河庄), was at the Kabuki-za in June 1931.)

                   
Nakamura Ganjiro I (中村雁治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play:  Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima  (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Ôsaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 03/1933
Print Date: 11/1933
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Ganjirô Jûnikyoku no Uchi
Personal Collection
 
 

 
Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as
Kajiwara Heizo Kagetoki
(梶原平三景時)
     
Play: Kajiwara Heizô Homare
no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)
Performance Place: Osaka
Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 06/1934
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
(玩辞楼当利狂言
似顔絵十種 其一)
Image courtesy of Serge
Astieres
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as
Miuranosuke (三浦之助)
     
Play: Kamakura Sandaiki
(鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: Minami-
za, Toyko
Performance Date: 12/01/34
      
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
(玩辞楼当利狂言
似顔絵十種 其一)
Image courtesy of Serge
Astieres
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Print Date: February? 1935
Artist: Yamaguchi Sohei (山口草平)                    ``
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This is a memorial print for Yamaguchi Sohei, who
died on February 1, 1935.  Ganjirô I played the role of
Kamiya Jihei dozens of times between at least 1886 and
1933.
 
 
 

           
            Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
            Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

            Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
            Print Date: February? 1935
            Artist: Yamaguchi Sohei (山口草 平)                  
            Image courtesy of Artelino.com

            Note: This is a color variant of the memorial print for Ganjirô I .

Wrapper for Ganjirô Tôri
Kyogen Nigaoe Jû-shu
Part 1 Series
      
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
(玩辞楼当利狂言
似顔絵十種 其一)
Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Nan Yohe (南与兵衛)
     
        Play: Futatsu Chôchô
        Kuruwa Nikki
        (双蝶々曲輪日記)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Image courtesy of Serge
        Astieres
 
        Note: Ganjirô I performed
        this role in Toyko at the
        Kabuki-za in October 1906,
        at the Shintomi-za in March
        1918, at the Kabuki-za in
        March 1927, and at the
        Shinjuku Daiichi Gekijô in
        July 1936.

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Ôboshi Yuranosuke
        (大星由良之助)
     
        Play: Kanadehon
        Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵;
        仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
       
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Image courtesy of Serge
        Astieres
 
        Note: Ganjirô I first portrayed
        Kamiya Jihê in Tokyo at the
        Kabuki-za in October 1906. 
        He reprised the role at the
        Shintomi-za in May 1911 and
        October 1916, and at the
        Kabuki-za in April 1917.
 
 
 

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Kameya Chûbē
        (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
     
        Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
        (恋飛脚大和往来)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Image courtesy of Serge
        Astieres
 
        Note: Ganjirô I performed
        this role in Toyko at the Kabuki-
        za in October 1909, at the
        Shintomi-za in May 1915, and
        at the Kabuki-za in November
        1926 and November 1931.

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Wan'ya Kyûbê
        (椀屋久兵衛)

        Play: Wankyuusue no
        Matsuyama (椀久末松山)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Personal Collection

        Note: Ganjirô I performed
        this role in Tokyo at the
        Shintomi-za in February
        1913 and November 1920,
        and at the Kabuki-za in
        May 1928 (and presumably
        multiple times in Osaka as
        well).

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Sasaki Moritsuna
        (佐々木盛綱)

        Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata
        (近江源氏先陣館)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Personal Collection

        Note: Ganjirô I performed this
        role in Tokyo four times
        between May 1890 and May
        1928 (and presumably
        multiple times in Osaka as
        well).

Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima
(心中天網嶋; 心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
(玩辞楼当利狂言
似顔絵十種 其一)
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I played the role
of Kamiya Jihei dozens of times
between  at least 1886 and
1933.
 
 

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as ? as ?

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as ?

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Tôjûrô (藤十郎)

        Play: Tôjûrô no Koi
        (藤十郎の恋)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
       
        Note: Ganjirô I performed
        this role in Tokyo at the
        Shintomi-za in March-April
        1921 and at the Kabuki-za
        in April 1928.  Presumably
        one of those productions
        toured in Osaka.

       
        Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎);
        Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Nakamura Fukusuke IV
        (中村福助); Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次; 市川左團次)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童);
Bandô Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎); Nakamura
Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Nakamura Jakuemon III
(中村雀右衛門)

Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

       
        Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車);
        Bandô Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎); ?; Nakamura
        Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若;
         實川延若)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)
        as ? and ?

        Play(s): 
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/19**
        Print Date: 11/19**?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima  (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I played the role of Kamiya Jihei dozens of times between  at least 1886 and
1933.

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi  (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)  as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)  as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi  (鏡獅子) and similar plays

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)

Title:  Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Takechi Jûjirô (武智十次郎)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1913-1919
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Image courtesy of FujiArts.com

Note: The only record I could find of
Ganjirô I performing in Tokyo when
Shunsen was active making prints was
at the Shintomi-za in May 1926.
Stylistically, however, the print looks
like it was made a decade earlier.

 
Nakamura Ganjirô VI (中村鴈治郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #2]
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role
twice in Tokyo, at the Shintomi-za in
February 1912  and again in November
1913.  He also played the role at the
Naka-za in Osaka in November 1921,
and presumably at other venues outside
of Tokyo over the years.

 
Nakamura Ganjirô VI (中村鴈治郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role
twice in Tokyo, at the Shintomi-za in
February 1912  and again in November
1913.  He also played the role at the
Naka-za in Osaka in November 1921,
and presumably at other venues outside
of Tokyo over the years.

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
 
Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role
twice in Tokyo, at the Shintomi-za in
February 1912  and again in November
1913.  He also played the role at the
Naka-za in Osaka in November 1921,
and presumably at other venues outside
of Tokyo over the years.
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Kibeya Jûbê (呉服屋十兵衛;
呉服屋重兵衛)
 
Play: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô II performed this role
in Tokyo five times between May 1970
and January 1980.  Ganjirô III
performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kokuritsu Gekijô in October 2004.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role at 
the Shintomi-za in May 1915.  Ganjirô III
performed this role at the Kokuritsu
Gekijô in November 2002.

 
  Nakamura Ganjirô
  (中村鴈治郎) as
  Soga Jûrô Sukenari
  (曾我十郎祐成)
 
  Play:
  Performance Place: ?
  Performance Date: ?
  Print Date: ?
  Artist: ?
  Medium: Woodblock printed
  pochibukuro
  Personal Collection

  Note: Ganjirô I portrayed
  Soga Jûrô in Tokyo in Soga
  Kyôdai (曽我兄弟) at the
  Shintomi-za in November
  1913.  Ganjirô III portrayed
  Soga Jûrô in Tokyo in
` Kotobuki Soga no Taimen
  (寿曽我対面) at the Meiji-
  za in March 1993.
 
 
 
 

 
  Nakamura Ganjirô I
  (中村鴈治郎) as Wankyû (椀久)

   Play: Wankyû Sue no
   Matsuyama (椀久末松山)
   Artist: ?
   Medium: Woodblock printed
   matchbook cover
 
   Note: Ganjirô I performed this
   role in Tokyo at the Shintomi-
   za in February 1913 and
   November 1920, and at the
   Kabuki-za in May 1928.                   

 
Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as ?

Play: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover