GOSHO ZAKURA HORIKAWA NO YOUCHI
(御所櫻堀川夜討)

aka HORIKAWA NO YOUCHI (堀川夜討)

Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎 ) as
Gô-no-Kimi (郷の君)

Play: Goshozakura Horikawa no Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討) [Toyata Monogatari
 (藤弥太物語)]
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/1900
Print Date: 11/1900
Artist: Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川芳幾)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

  Ichikawa Enjo I (市川莚女) as
  Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 



 

   Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次  ) as
   Tôyata (藤弥太)
 

                
Plays: Amayo no Kane Yotsuya Kaidan (雨夜鐘四谷怪談); Ai Ureshi Yume Mutsugoto (逢嬉夢睦言);
Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Engi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/04/03
Print Date: 09/04/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Shôkaku (尾上松鶴) as Oiwa (房お岩) and  Ichikawa Dandô (市川団童;
市川團童) as Tamiya lemon (民谷伊右衛門) in Amayo no Kane Yotsuya Kaidan (雨夜鐘四谷怪談).
 
 

                    
Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as Hananoi (花の井)
   
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Owasa  (おあさ)
    
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵防弁慶)
    
Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as
Koshimoto Shinobu (腰元志のふ)
    
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小團次; 市川小團次) as
Yonezô Jijû Tarô (侍従太郎)

Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi 
(御所櫻堀川夜討) [Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使)]
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1904
Print Date: 10/15/04
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Owasa  (おあさ)
   
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵防弁慶)
 
Plays: Soga Danmari (曽我だんまり); Gotô Matabê (後藤又兵衛); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討); Shûshiki Sakura Ueno Hayasaki (秋色桜上野早咲)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/04
Print Date: 01/16/1904
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Tosabô (土佐坊)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)
 
Plays: Horikawa Youchi (堀川夜討); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪); Sangen Nagaya (三軒長家)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/22/05
Print Date: 05/22/05
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵防弁慶) 
 
Plays: Koi no Utsuro (恋の洞); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討);
Eguchi no Kimi (江口の君); Shârokku, Hômuzu (シャーロック、ホームズ); On'na Shujin (女主人);
Santarô (三太郎); Hidari Kogatana (左小刀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:   07/03/12
Print Date: 07/1912?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 
 

                 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshitsune (義経)
 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Tôyata (藤弥太)
 
Plays: Nihon Furisode Hajime (日本振袖始); Seken (世間); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi 
(御所櫻堀川夜討); Otagaisama (お互様); Tsuri On'na (釣女)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/15
Print Date: 11/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Susanô no Mikoto (素盞嗚尊) in Nihon
Furisode Hajime (日本振袖始).
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Shinmyô Owasa (針妙おわさ)

Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Note: Utaemon V also performed this role at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in
February 1920.  It is therefore possible that this print reflects Utaemon
V's 1920 performance.
 

                 
Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵防弁慶)
 
Plays: Kugyô (公暁); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討);
Kirishitan Yashiki (切支丹屋敷); Suisha no Hitoyo (水車の一夜)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/16/21
Print Date: 07/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as [Johann the Italian] Itaria Hito
Yohan (伊太利人ヨハン) in Kirishitan Yashiki (切支丹屋敷); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Fujiyoshi
(藤吉) in Suisha no Hitoyo (水車の一夜); and Ichimura Kamezo III (市村亀蔵; 市村龜蔵) as Minamoto no
Sanetomo (源實朝卿) in Kugyô (公暁).
 
 
 

                   
Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as
Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使), Act IV of
Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討; 御所櫻堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/26
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#19)
*Personal Collection

Note:  Ichizô IV first played this role in Tokyo at the Engi-za
 in December 1910.  He would again play this role at the
Teikoku Gekijô in July 1921 and at the Meiji-za in February
1924.  It is possible that Shunsen based this print on his 1921
or 1924 performances.
 
 
 

Plays: Ikiutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記); Hirakana Seisuiki (ひら仮名盛衰記);
Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/06/26
Print Date: 08/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                 
?  as Shinmyô Owasa (針妙おわさ)

Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Tokyo?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵)
Personal Collection

Note: Without the original folder, it is not possible to provide a
definitive entry for this print.   It could depict Bandô Shûchô III
(坂東秀調), who performed the role at the Azuba Meiji-za in
February 1924.
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Hosokawa Chi Daruma (細川血達摩); Imoseyama Michiyuki (妹背山道行);
Honganji Engi (本願寺縁起); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Horikawa Youchi (堀河夜討);
Yûgiri Izaemon (夕ぎり伊左衛門); Katsudô Kyô Jidai (活動狂時代);
Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/1927?]
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 

               
Benkei - Face Making Up (辨慶の隈取)

Role: Benkei (辨慶, 弁慶)
Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi
(御所櫻堀川夜討); Hashi Benkei (橋辨慶)
Print Date: 01/25/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 20
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1983
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Personal Collection (AP)

Note: Benkei figures in a number of kabuki plays. 
Based on the character's wig and makeup, the print
possibly depicts a scene from Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使),
Act IV of Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討; 御所櫻堀川夜討).
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使)  [Act III of
Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/92
Print Date: 11/1992
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 3)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 3
(第七期大首絵シリーズの3)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使) [Act III of
Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/02/99
Print Date: 11/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Culminant Series XIII (Design 8)]
Daijûsan-ki Shûsei Shirîzu no 8
(第十三期集成シリーズの8)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 

                 
Furisode Benkei (振袖弁慶)
 
Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討)
[Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使)
Print Date: 2015
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 16)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo
 
 
 

Owasa (おわさ)
     
Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ? 
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection