KINMON GOSAN NO KIRI
(金門五山桐)

aka SANMON GOSAN NO KIRI (樓門五山桐)
aka GOSAN NO KIRI (五山桐)
aka RÔMAN NO KIRI (楼門五山桐)

 


Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(楼門五山桐)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/16/01
Print Date: 05/20/01
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

  Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
  Mashiba Hisayoshi (羽柴久吉)

   Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
   Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

                 
 
Plays: Rômon Gosan Kiri (楼門五山桐); Shinbugun (振武軍); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻); Mikamiyama (三上山)

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/11
Print Date: 06/01/11
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐); Oedo Nihonbashi (お江戸日本ばし); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ôgiya (扇屋); Noriaibune Ehô Manzai (乗合船惠方萬歳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/18
Print Date: 01/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐); Takatoki (高時); Chiyoda Ninjô (千代田刃傷);
Modoribashi (戻橋); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/22
Print Date: 04/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中雙六);
Sagi Musume (鷺娘); Yasuna (保名); Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街醉醒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/02/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中雙六);
Sagi Musume (鷺娘); Yasuna (保名); Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街醉醒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/02/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as  
Mashiba Hisayoshi (羽柴久吉)

Play:  Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐; 樓門五山桐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1928
Print Date: 06/1928?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  There is a record here of Sôjûrô VII performing in
this play with Kôshirô VII in January 1923 but not the venue:
https://zeami.ci.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/~izuka/erito1/tujikabuki1.html
The pair also played the same roles in a production of 
Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜渕双級巴) at the
Teikoku Gekijô in October 1928.  Given that 1928 appears
to be rather late for Hanayama print, it is possible that the
print reflects a prior performance outside of Tokyo.
 
 

                   
    Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as 
    Goemon (五右衛門)

    Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐)
    Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
    Performance Date: 06/1928
    Print Date: 06/1928?
    Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
    Personal Collection

    Note:  There is a record here of Kôshirô VII performing in
    this play with Sôjûrô VII in January 1923 but not the venue:
    https://zeami.ci.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/~izuka/erito1/tujikabuki1.html
    The pair also played the same roles in a production of
    Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜渕双級巴) at the
    Teikoku Gekijô in October 1928.  Given that 1928 appears
    to be rather late for Hanayama print, it is possible that the
    print reflects a prior performance outside of Tokyo.

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五山桐); Murai Chôan Takumi no Yaregasa (村井長庵巧破傘); 
Urami Kuzu Tsuyu ni Nuregime ( 恨葛露濡衣); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/28
Print Date: 06/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
From top left to lower right:
 
1. Tanaka Kôka (田中耕花): Motome (求女) in
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
2.  Machida Shian (町田紫庵): ? in ?
3.  Takarada Nao (宝田直): Sekibê (関兵衛) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
4.   *mi Tashushi (*見立志): Sumizome (墨染) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
5.  Kitada Haruhiko (北田晴彦): Oiwa (お岩) in
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
6.  Inoue Matsuyoshi (井上松芳): Goemon (五右工門) in
Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐)
7.  Uchikawa Eihô (内川英峰): Hanaregoma Chôkichi
(放駒長吉) in Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記)
8.  Tsuda Kôraku (津田行楽):  ? in ?
9.  Higuchi Soyama (樋口蘇山): Urazato Tokijirô
(浦里時次郎) in Akegarasu (明烏)
10. Shirai Kôyuki (白井皎雪): ? in ?
11. Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫): Tadanobu (忠信) in
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
12. Minami Kichijirô (南吉次郎): Urazato (浦里) in
Akegarasu (明烏)

Print Date: 10/1933
Personal Collection

Note: Most of these artists are known matchbook cover/
adveritsing label artists.  In light of the title cartouche, it
is possible that this is the first panel of a triptych that
cumulatively contains 36 actor portraits.  The seal on
this print is the same as one found on two woodblock
printed postcards that resemble two 1925 prints by
Miyake Hanayama, and is likely a publisher seal.
 
 

                   
Goemon (五右工門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(樓門五山桐)
Print Date: 10/1933
Artist: Inoue Matsuyoshi (井上松芳)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a close up of the
image from the oban sheet.

                   
Goemon (五右工門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(樓門五山桐)
Date: c. 1933
Artist: Inoue Matsuyoshi (井上松芳)
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection

Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若 ) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)
           
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐; 楼門五山桐)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/1950
Print Date: 05/1950?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko,
Natori Shunsen, Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, Shimizu Miezô, and
Mori Shunchô.  The panels by Takane follow.
 
 
 

                   
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)
 
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐; 樓門五山桐),
Panel 12 of Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku
(こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Takane Kôji (高根宏治)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Mashiba Hisayoshi (羽柴久吉)

Title: [Bunraku Head Hisayoshi]
Bunraku Kashira Hisayoshi (文楽頭 久吉)
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐; 樓門五山桐)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za
Print Date: 1981
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (楼門五三桐)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/92
Print Date: 03/1993
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 4)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 4
(第七期大首絵シリーズの4)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

Goemon (五右衛門)
 
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(樓門五三桐)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: 盛會御禮 
Personal Collection

? as Goemon (五右ェ門)

 
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
 
(樓門五山桐; 楼門五山桐)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
                      
        

               
                Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
                as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)
      
                Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
                (樓門五山桐)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
                Personal Collection

                Note: Kichiemon I portrayed Ishikawa
                Goemon in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za
                in January 1916 and at the Shintomi-za in
                March 1923.