HONCHÔ NIJÛSHIKÔ
(本朝廿四孝)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Play:  Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/23/1888
Print Date: 10/1900
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Series: Ichikawa Danjûrô Engei Hyakuban
(市川団十郎演芸百番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This print was issued posthumously. 
 
 
 
 

JANUARY 1896

Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as [Princess Yaegaki] Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
 
Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Asakusa-za
Performance Date: 01/1896?
Print Date: 01/1896
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo Museum Collection
 
Note: This is a reissue of a189* print that featured the kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro V (尾上菊五郎).
 
 
 
 

                
[Female Jôruri Player] Onna Jôruri  (女じょうるり)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝), Act IV
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1900-1901
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Brocades of the Capital] Miyake no Nishiki (都の錦)
Image courtesy of Kunitachi College of Music Library
 


 

Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Uesugi Kagekatsu (上杉景勝)

? as Unknown

? as Unknown

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Jihizô (慈悲蔵)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Yokozô (横蔵)

Unread as ?

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
馬場美濃 (Baba Mino)

Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Unread

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/10/01
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: I have not found a con-
temporaneous stage perform-
ance with this particular cast.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
Ningyô Tsukaihi (人形遣ひ)
  

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 01/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Kunitachi
College of Music Library (Takeuchi
Bunko)
 
 
 

  Onoe Eizaburô V
  (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
  Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)
 
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
Ningyô Tsukaihi (人形遣ひ)

  Unread as Musician
  Unread as Musician

            
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as ?

? as [Musicians] 
 
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)

Onoe Eizaburô V  (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 03/27/02
Artist: ?
 
 
 

                
Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)
 
Plays:  Kamakurayama Haru no Asahina (鎌倉山春朝比奈); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝);
Kogane no Shachihoko Uwasa no Takanami (金鯱噂高浪)

Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 01/11/02
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Asahina Saburô (朝比奈三郎) in
Kamakurayama Haru no Asahina (鎌倉山春朝比奈), and two additional characters from Kogane no
Shachihoko Uwasa no Takanami (金鯱噂高浪), one of which is a yakko.  It is unclear what these two
characters' names are or who portrayed them in the play.
 
 

                   
Nakamura Shibajaku  IV (中村芝雀) as
Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)

Itô Unosuke I (伊藤右之助) as
Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1902
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

Note: Itô Unosuke I took the name Ichikawa Unosuke I
in January 1902, which suggests that the play was
performed before that date.
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Plays: Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝);
Sandaibanashi Totoya no Chawan (三題噺魚屋茶碗)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/20/06
Print Date: 03/26/06
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Takatoki (高時);
Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); Natsu Sugata Onna Danshichi (夏祭女団七);
Wakamidori Sorazumiyoshi (若緑空住吉)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/12/10
Print Date: 06/13/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑), Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Hôjô
Takatoki (北條高時) in Takatoki (高時), Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Danshichi
Shima no Okaji (團七縞お梶) in Natsu Sugata Onna Danshichi (夏祭女団七), and Ichikawa Kodanji V
(市川小団次; 市川小團次) in an as yet unidentified role. 
 

                 
 
Plays: Ichijô Ôkurakyô (一条大蔵卿; 一條大蔵卿); 
Haha (母);  Anjin (按針);  Hayagaten (早合點);
Furawâ, Dansu (フラワー、ダンス); Honchô
Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/12
Print Date: 04/01/12
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ichijô Ôkura
(一条大蔵; 一條大蔵) in Ichijô Ôkurakyô
(一条大蔵卿; 一條大蔵卿).
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Don'na (ドンナ); Hakkenden Sumida no Takadono (八犬傳墨田高樓); Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝); Ama no Jaku (天邪鬼)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/14
Print Date: 12/1914?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ama no Jaku (天邪鬼) in Ama no
Jaku (天邪鬼).  The other two figures are as yet unidentified.
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)
 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Yaegahime (八重垣姫) in Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
  
Plays: Kagekiyo (景清); Hosokawa Tadaoki no Tsuma (細川忠興の妻); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝);
[Meiboku] Kasane Monogatari ([薫樹]累物語); Kuruwa no Sayaate (廓鞘當); Kiku Ningyô (菊人形)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/02/16
Print Date: 11/1916?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Akoya (阿古屋) in
Kagekiyo (景清); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (累) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Magarikane no Kingorô (曲金の金五郎) in [Meiboku] Kasane Monogatari ([薫樹]累物語); and an
unidentified actor in an unknown role.
 
 

                 
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
 

                 
 
Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); 
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道); Yoshiwara Suzume (教草吉原雀)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
Plays: Meishô no Saigo (名匠の最期); Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝); On'na Shibaraku (女暫); Chûshin Iroha Jikki (忠臣いろは實記);
Negai no Ito Enishi no Odamaki  (願絲縁苧環)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/30/21
Print Date: 11/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Tomoe Gozen
(巴御前) in On'na Shibaraku (女暫).
 
 
 

Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as
Yaegaki -hime (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/22
Print Date: 12/1922?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

                               
                Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as
                Yaegaki -hime (八重垣姫)

                Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 12/01/22
                Print Date: 1950 or later
                Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
                Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
                (冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#7)
                Medium: ?
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
                drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
                unpublished design.  Jakuemon III died on November 15,
                1927 at age 53.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as Yaegaki hime (八重垣姫)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信)
 
Plays: Muromachi Gosho (室町御所); Aki no Wakare (秋の別れ); Nani Ôshima Homare no
Tsuyoyumi (名大島功譽強弓); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/22
Print Date: 12/1922?
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 Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Yoshiteru (義輝),
Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as Iwatsuki Suisuke (岩槻主水助), Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次) as Ikeda Tango no Kami Masatake (池田丹後守将武), and Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tamon (多門) in Muromachi Gosho (室町御所); and  Bandô Shûchô III
(坂東秀調) as Sadarae (簓江), Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo
(鎮西八郎為朝), and  Kataoka Ichizô IV  (片岡市蔵) as Oni Yasha (鬼夜叉) in Nani Ôshima Homare
no Tsuyoyumi (名大島功譽強弓).
 
 

Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Play:  Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 12/20/26
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu
III (長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 8 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物 大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum ]
 
 

   Koshimoto Nureginu (腰元濡衣)
'

   Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)
'

   Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)
'

Placement of characters on stage design
'

  Stage Design
'

Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村 福助) as
Princess Yaegaki (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/27
Print Date:  c. 1927-1928
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
1st Collection] Butai Emaki dai
1-shû (舞台絵巻 第1集)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
       

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
 
 
 

                   
Cover for Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
[Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)]

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Medium: Machine printed
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
[Princess Yaegaki] Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
(文楽人形)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Publication: Ukiyoe-kai (浮世絵界)
Date: October 1936
Artist: Miyao Shigeo (宮尾しげを)
Personal Collection
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Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)

Play:  Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Tsuboouchi Memorial Theatre Museum 
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
           
Play: Jusshukô (十種香), Act 4, Scene 3 of Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1949
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: [Kabuki Calendar] Kabuki Karendâ (歌舞伎カレンダー) [November]
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
   
 
 

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, Miyao Shigeo, Shimizu Miezô, and
Mori Shunchô.  The panels by Jinbo follow.
 
 
 

                       
    Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

    Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
    Print Date: 12/1950
    Artist: Jinbo Tomoyo (神保朋世)
    Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
    Personal Collection

Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)
 
Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Date: 1954
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prings of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 2
 
 
 

                   
Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Play:   Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu IV (長谷川貞信)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #7
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)

Title: [Bunraku Head Yaegaki-hime]
Bunraku Kashira Shihei (文楽頭八重垣姫)
Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za
Print Date: 1981 (ed. 200)
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Koshimoto Nureginu (腰元濡衣)

Play: Jusshukô (十種香), Act 4, Scene 3 of
Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/2000
Print Date: 07/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Culminant Series XIII (Design 14)]
Daijûsan-ki Shûsei Shirîzu no 14
(第十三期集成シリーズの14)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 

                   
Koshimoto Nureginu (腰元濡衣)

Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)

Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Play:  Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: ?
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                 
[Puppeteer with Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)]

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Print Date:  ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
 
 
 
 

           
            Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as ?

            Play:  ?
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date:  ?
            Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
            Personal Collection
 
            Note: It is possible that this print depicts
            Yaegaki -hime (八重垣姫) in Honchô
            Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝).  Kikugorô Vi
            performed that role at the Teikoku Gekijô
            in June 1928.

Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)

Play:  Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: [100 Views of Dance Shikishi]       
Shikishi odori hyakkei   (色紙おどり百景)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

           
            ? as Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信)

            Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
            Performance Place:?
            Performance Date: ?      
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Personal Collection

             
                Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
                Nureginu (濡衣)
 
                Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
                (本朝廿四孝)
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed
                matchbook cover
 
                Note: Shûchô III performed this
                role in Tokyo at the Hongô-za in
                November 1913 and at the
                Teikoku Gekijô in December
                1922.
 
 
          
        

           
            Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若)
            as Yokozô (横蔵)
          
            Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
            Personal Collection

            Note: Enjaku II portrayed Yokozô at the
            Kabuki-za in January 1916, and June 1937.

       
        Nakamura Utaemon V
         (中村歌右衛門) as
        Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

        Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
       
        Note: The seller attributed this print to
        Natori Shunsen.  Utaemon V
        performed this role in Tokyo at at the
        Hongô-za in November 1914, at the
        Kabuki-za in January 1916, at the
        Teikoku Gekijô in November 1916, at
        the Shintomi-za in December 1919, and
        at the Kabuki-za in May 1925.

? as Princess Yaegeki (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (不如帰)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection

       
        [Princess Yaegaki] Yaegaki-hime
        (八重垣姫)
 
        Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series:  **** Omokage (****面影)
        Personal Collection

[Princess Yaegaki]
Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
   
Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: The artist is possibly
Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞).

       
        Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)

        Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
        (本朝廿四孝)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson