GOBAN TAIHEIKI
(碁盤太平記)

                 
 
Plays: Chukô Shigure no Matsu (忠孝時雨松); Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記); Soga Kyôdai (曾我兄弟);
Osaragi Kuyô (大佛供養); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/03/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Mori Ranmaru (森蘭丸),
Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長),  Ichikawa Monnosuke VI
(市川門之助) as Odai (おだい),  Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as Matsumushi (松虫), and
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Hayashi Shinroku (林新六) in Chukô Shigure no Matsu
(忠孝時雨松); Horikoshi Fukusaburô (堀越福三郎) as Kaegagoro (替我五郎) and
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Haha Manjô (母滿江) in Soga Kyôdai (曾我兄弟); and
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧), Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)
as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門), and  ? as ? in Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文 章).            
 
   

   

               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助)

Play: Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/01/25
Artist: Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清画)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 10 (Oct. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Ganjiro I is known to have played this role at the Shintomi-za in
November 1920.  The print could reflect a subsequent regional performance.
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) as Ôishi Chikara (大石主稅)

Play: Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/26
Print Date: 08/01/26
Artist: Matsuda Seifû (松田青風)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 20) (三十六家選 (その廿))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 5, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection.