KANEIRI GEDATSU NO KOROMO
(鐘入解脱衣)

aka SOGA MANNEN BASHIRA (曾我万年柱)
aka GEDATSU (解脱)

               
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 05/1914
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. 8, No. 5 (May 1914) 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.
 
 
 
 

               
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
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
 
 
 

                 
Kagekiyo (景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 11/15/25
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 

               
Kagekiyo (景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection

Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Performance Place: Kabukiza, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/32
Print Date:  1936
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
[Kagekiyo's Shinobu Makeup in Gedatsu]
Shinobu-guma Gedatsu no Kagekiyo (忍隈解脱ノ景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 1940
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 evidently the version of the makeup devised
by Kiyotada-an Shinobu  (清忠案 忍隈).
 
 
 
 

                 
[Makeup of Kagekiyo's Ghost] Kagekiyo no Bôrei-guma
(景清隈)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Zoku Kumadori Jûhachiban (続隈取十八番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This was the makeup devised by  Kagerô III (?) (陽炎).
 
 

               
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: 01/01/52
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 1, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
*Personal Collection (#114)
 
 
 
   

               
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
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
 
 
 

                           
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎) as
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/92
Print Date: 07/1992
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 1)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第七期大首絵シリーズの1)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞)
 
Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/92
Print Date:  2020
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Five Styles of Banzai-Ukiyoe]
Banzai Ukiyoe-ha Go Sugata (万歳浮世絵派五姿) #4
*Personal Collection (#18/30)

Note: The actor portraying Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景情) as
painted by Kunisada is Ichikawa Danjûrô V (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎). 
The other figure is Kôkei's own modern day depiction of Ichikawa
Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as Kagekiyo.  Danjûrô XII also
portrayed Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo in a production of Kagekiyo (景情)
at the Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo, in January 1994.




 

               
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

                   
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
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. 
 
 

                   
Kagekiyo (景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Image Courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Akushichibyôe
Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune
(鳥居忠宗)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban
(歌舞伎十八番)
*Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

 
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清)


Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection
                      

 
Ichikawa Sanshô V
(市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cove
 
Note: Sanshô V performed
this role at the Kabuki-za in
November 1932 and in
October 1953.
           


           

       
        Kagekiyo (景清)
 
        Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Kumadori (隈取)
        Personal Collection

        

                
[Kumadori (隈取)]

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection
 
Note: This print shows the kumadori makeup for, inter
alia, Asahina (朝比奈の隈),  Tsuchigumo (土蜘),
 Kugeaku Tokihei (公家悪時平),  Kitsune Tadanobu
(狐忠信),  Sukeroku (助六),  Shakkyô (石橋),  Umeômaru
(梅王丸), Matsuômaru (松王丸), Sakuramaru (桜丸), and
Gedatsu (解脱).
 
 
 
 
 

               
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)     
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.

Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play:  Gedatsu (解脱)
Artist: ?