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.
 
 
 
 

                 
 
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
 

                 
 
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: 04/1912?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
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
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kagekiyo (景清); Hosokawa Tadaoki no Tsuma (細川忠興の妻); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝);
Kasane Monogatari (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
 
 

                 
 
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
 

                 
 
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
 
 
 

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.
 
 
 

                 
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: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

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
 
 
 
 

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