BANDÔ HIKOSABURÔ VI (坂東彦三郎)
10/12/1886 - 12/28/1938
aka ONOE EIZABURÔ VI (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎)
aka ONOE EIZÔ I (尾上英造)
MARCH 1903
Left Panel, Top Row: Unknown as Unread; Unknown as Unread;
Unknown as Unread
Left Panel, Middle Row: Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Oniô Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門); Unknown as Unread
Left Panel, Bottom Row: Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎;
市川權十郎) as Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈);
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)
Middle Panel, Top Row: Unknown as Unread;
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎);
Unread as Unknown, Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Unread
Middle Panel, Bottom Row: Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成);
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)
Right Panel, Top Row: Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川團十郎;
市川團十郎) as Kudô Saemon Suketsune (工藤左衛門祐経);
Unread as Unknown; Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Kewaizaka no Shôshô (化粧坂少将); Unknown as Unread
Right Panel, Bottom Row: Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
as Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太); Unknown as Unread
Play: Kichirei Soga no Ishizue (吉例曽我礎)
[aka Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16/03
Print Date: 03/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Kabuki21.com
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Oniô Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川團十郎;
市川團十郎)
as Kudô Saemon Suketsune
(工藤左衛門祐経)
Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎;
市川權十郎) as
Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成)
Unknown as
Unread
Play: Kichirei Soga no Ishizue
(吉例曽我礎)
[aka Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16/03
Print Date: 06/10/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
Unknown as Unread
Unknown as Unread
Unknown as Unread
Unknown as Unread
Unknown as Unread
Unknown as Unread
Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Kewaizaka no Shôshô (化粧坂少将)
Unknown as Unread
Unknown as Unread
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Unread
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎) as
Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)
Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
as Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎)
MAY 1903
Onoe Eizaburô VI
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Tachimochi (太刀持)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Daimyô Bô (大名某)
Play: Suô Otoshi (素襖落)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/03
Print Date: 05/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as
Tarôkaja (太郎冠者)
Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Hime Goryô (姫御寮)
MAY 1907
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房)
Plays: Hiyoku no Tsuru Senzai Soga (比翼鶴千歳曽我); Ôsakazuki Shusen no
Tsuwamono
(大杯觴酒戦強者); Shinkyoku Mochizuki (新曲望月); Kitsune Shizuka no Keshô
Kagami (狐静化粧鏡);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/07
Print Date: 05/07/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I
as Ii Kamon-no-Kami
Naotaka (井伊掃部頭直孝) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戦強者);
Nakamura
Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前) in Kitsune Shizuka no
Keshô Kagami (狐静化粧鏡); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Umegawa (傾城梅川) and Jitsukawa
Enjirô I
(実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I 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).
OCTOBER 1912
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tsuchigumo (土蜘)
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Hirai Yasumasa (平井保昌)
Plays: Yûshô no Tsuma (勇将の妻); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Hiyokuzuka Obana
Teranishi
(比翼塚尾花寺西); Go Henka (五変化)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/25/12
Print Date: 10/25/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
JULY 1915
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Takezawa Kenmotsu (竹澤監物)
Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Artist: Matsuda Seifû (松田青風)
Personal Collection
NOVEMBER 1915
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Shundô Genba (春藤玄蕃)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Artist: Koito Genatarô (小絲源太郎)
Personal Collection
FEBRUARY 1918
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Shiratayû
(白太夫)
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sakuramaru
(桜丸)
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東 彦三郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)
Sawamura Chôjûrô,VII (沢村長十郎; 澤村長十郎) as Umeômaru
(梅王丸)
Plays: On'na Tateshi Gomai no Soroigi
(女達師五枚揃着); On'na Shibaraku (女暫);
Karukayadô (苅萱堂); Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑);
Musume Gonomi Ukina no Yokogushi (處女翫浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Jakushôbô (寂照坊) in Karukayadô
(苅萱堂).
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ôguchiya
Gyôu (大口屋暁雨)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ôguchiya Jizaemon
(大口屋冶左衛門)
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Karigane Shôbê (釣鐘庄兵衛)
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東 彦三郎) as Henmi
Tetsushinsai (逸見鉄心斎)
Plays: Hamuretto [Hamlet] (ハムレット); Kyôkaku
Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/21/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
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 Tsubouchi Shikô
(坪内士行) as Hamuretto [Hamlet] (ハムレット)
JULY 1918
? as ?
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Akagaki Genzo
(赤垣源藏)
Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as Ôishi
Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助)
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Yamaoka Kakubei
(山岡覚兵衛)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yasuke (八助)
Plays: On'na Chûshingura (女忠臣蔵); Kekkon no Mae
(結婚の前); Ataka
Shinseki (安宅新關)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/18
Print Date: 07/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum
? as ?
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Akagaki Genzo
(赤垣源藏)
Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as Ôishi
Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助)
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Yamaoka Kakubei
(山岡覚兵衛)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Yasuke (八助)
Plays: On'na Chûshingura (女忠臣蔵); Kamakura
Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記);
Ryûsei (流星);
Wakai Tsuma (若い妻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/18
Print Date: 07/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum
MAY
1919
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Kagekatsu (景勝)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Jihizô (慈悲蔵)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Yokozô (横蔵)
Plays: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); Gogatsu
no Asa (五月の朝); Noroi (呪);
Mei Ranfan [Mei Lanfang] Shinageki (梅蘭芳支那劇);
Musume Jishi (娘獅子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/19
Print Date: 05/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Kagekatsu (景勝)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Jihizô (慈悲蔵)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Yokozô (横蔵)
Plays: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); Noroi (呪);
Kingo Hideaki (金吾秀秋); Modori Kago (戻駕)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/19
Print Date: 05/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum
SEPTEMBER
1920
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Minamoto no
Yoritomo (源賴朝)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Saigyô Hôshi
(西行法師)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Hori Chikaie (堀親家)
Plays: Seigyô to Shizuka (西行と静); Bara no Irae
(薔薇の答); Meian Roku (明暗録)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/20
Print Date: 09/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum
OCTOBER
1921
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Uosô (魚惣)
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Chijimiya
Shinsuke (縮屋新助)
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Geisha
Miyokichi (芸者美代吉)
Plays: Honchô Ôshôkun (本朝王昭君); Onatsu
Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Meigetsu Hachiman Matsuri
(名月八幡祭)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/21
Print Date: 10/1921?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Tawaraya Sôtatsu (俵屋宗達),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Karasumaru
Mitsuhiro (烏丸光広), and Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Gakusô Keiun (學僧慶雲) in Honchô
Ôshôkun (本朝王昭君); and Onoe
Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Onatsu (おなつ) in Onatsu Kyôran
(おなつ狂乱).
MARCH
1922
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1922
Print Date: 1928
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#29)
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection
Note: Hikosaburô VI first played this role in
Tokyo at the
Teikoku Gekijô in February 1918. He also
played the role
at the Shinbashi Enbujô in February 1919 and
February
1920, and at the Asakusa Shochiku-za in February
1921.
It is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
on one of
these other prior performances.
JUNE
1922
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Ishidô Umanojô (石堂右馬之丞)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Ono Kudayû (斧九太夫)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥;
守田勘彌) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Momonoi Wakasanosuke
(桃井若狭之助)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okaru
(お軽)
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Tabi
Sugata Omoi no Kake Ine
(旅姿思掛稲); Tsuyu no Harema Sora
ha Sumiyoshi (入梅晴間空住吉)
Performance Place: Teikoku
Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:
06/01/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon
sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum
SEPTEMBER
1925
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Okina (翁)
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎)
as
Sanbasô (三番叟)
Plays: Ayatsuri Sanbasô
(あやつり三番叟);
Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記);
Kichisama Mairu Yukari no
Otozure (吉様参由縁音信)
Performance Place:
Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/25
Print Date: 09/10/25
Artist:: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
sujigaki cover
Note: The cover also depicts
Nakamura Kichiemon
I (中村吉右衛門) as Sendô Matsuemon
(船頭松右衛門),
in actuality, Higuchi Jirô
(桶口次郎) in Hirakana
Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); and Onoe
Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Kichisa (吉三) with
an unknown
actor in Kichisama Mairu
Yukari no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信).
UNKNOWN DATES
Onoe Eizaburô VI
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Komachi-hime (小町姫)
Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
[Yoshimine (良峯)] Shôshô
Munesada (少将宗貞)
Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as
Sumizome (墨染)
Ichikawa Komazô VIII
(市川高麗蔵) as
Ôtomo no Kuronushi (大伴黒主)
Play: Seki no To (関の扉)
[Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no
To
(積戀雪関扉)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1903-1911
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
*Personal Collection
Note: This is a reissue of a
1897
print with the actors'
cartouches
recarved and appears to be a
mitate-e. The original
print was
published on June 17, 1897 and
reflects a February 1897 per-
formance at the Kabuki-za in
Tokyo that starred Ichikawa
Danjûrô IX as Kuronushi.
This
print also bears a June 17,
1897
publication date, presumably
because the publisher didn't
bother or forgot to alter the
publication date.
However,
seeing as Komazô VIII did not
assume that name until May
1903, this print could not
have
been produced in 1897.
(More-
over, Kichiemon I would have
been an 11-year old child
actor
at the time.) Komazô
VIII
portrayed Kuronushi in a prod-
uction at the Kabuki-za in
March
1909 and Kichiemon I portrayed
Munesada in productions at the
Kabuki-za in June 1904 and
October 1910, but none of the
other actors in this print
appeared
with either of them.
Moreover, the
role of Komachi-hime seems
more of a role for Eizaburô V
(who changed his name in March
1903) than for Eizaburô
VI. Minor
color variations are known.
