HIZAKURIGE
(膝栗毛)

aka TÔKAIDÔCHÛ HIZAKURIGE (東海道中膝栗毛)
aka YAJI KITA (弥次喜多)

JUNE 1912

                 
 
Plays: Nobunagaki Ifû Gyôretsu (信長紀異風行列); Yôrô (養老); Sakaro no Matsu (さかろの松);
Dôchû Hizakurige (道中膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/31/12
Print Date: 05/31/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 


 

AUGUST 1916

                 
 
Plays: Igami no Gonta (いがみの權太); Suôotoshi (素襖落); Zôho Tenjinki (天神記);
Tôkaidô Hizakurige (東海道膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/16
Print Date: 08/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




1918

                 
Kitahachi (喜多八) and Yajirobé (弥次郎兵衛)
 
Play: Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Print Date: 1918
Artist: Fujikawa Tamenobu (藤川為信)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery
 





FEBRUARY 1919

                 
 
Plays: Sôga no Danmari (曾我のだんまり); Yotsugi Sôga (世継曾我); Katsuragawa Renri no
Shigarami (桂川連理柵); Sarome [Salome] (サロメ); Dôchù Hizakurige (道中膝栗毛);
Senshô Odori (戰勝踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/015/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 





FEBRUARY 1922




Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山舊錦繪); Uishiraga (初白髪);
Momijigari (紅葉狩); Mieidô Shinjû (御影堂心中); Azuma Bune (浅妻舟); Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山舊錦繪); Uishiraga (初白髪);
Momijigari (紅葉狩); Mieidô Shinjû (御影堂心中); Azuma Bune (浅妻舟); Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



AUGUST 1928


Plays: Meiji Ishin no Koro  (明治維新のころ); Tôkaidôchû Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/01/28
Print Date: 08/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Meiji Ishin no Koro  (明治維新のころ); Tôkaidôchû Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/01/28
Print Date: 08/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



OCTOBER 1928

                    
Plays: Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜淵双級巴);  Chôryô Heisho no Tamamono (張良兵書賜);
Hizakurige (膝栗毛); Funa Benkei (船辨慶); [Miss Ruth Page Dance] Ruusu Pêji Joshi Buyô
(ルウス・ペエヂ女史舞踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/02/28
Print Date: 10/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



UNKNOWN MONTH 1928

                   
Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as
Tachimen Yajirobé (栃面屋弥次郎兵衛)

Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) as Kitahachi (喜多八)

Play: Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#33)
*Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

1949

                   
Yaji-san Kita-san Sugoroko (やじさんきたさん双六)

Play: Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Date: 1926
Artist: Miki Masuo (三木ますお)
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sugoroku
Image courtesy of the Edo-Tokyo Museum
 
Note: This was a supplement to “Shogaku Yonensei (小学四年生),” Volume 28, No.10.
 



DECEMBER 1950


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,
Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen, Kubota Kinsen, Jinbo Tomoyo, Shimizu Miezô, and
Mori Shunchô.  The panels by Miyao follow.
 
 
 

           
           

                       
    Play: Dôchû Hizakurige (道中膝栗毛), Panel 8 of
    Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku
    (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
    Print Date: 12/1950
    Artist: Miyao Shigeo (宮尾しげを)
    Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
    Personal Collection
 
    Note: This play is either Tôkaidôchû Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛) or one of
    its various sequels.