ICHI-NO-TANI FUTABA GUNKI
(一谷嫩軍記)

                   
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Mukan Tayû Atsumori (無官太夫敦盛)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
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: These actors appeared in a production at the Kabuki-za
in Tokyo in October 1898.  This print, however, likely reflects a
later performance in Osaka or Kyoto.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一の谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1898
Print Date: 1903
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: This memorial print Danjûrô IX was issued posthumously..  It is based on a Kunichika triptych showing
Danjûrô IX and a second actor (omitted in the shin-e) in an October 1898 performance.
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Makaze Koikaze (魔風恋風); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Kottsukei Hachi Shôjin (滑稽八笑人)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/17/05
Print Date: 03/19/05
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Natsumoto Tôgo (夏本東吾) in Makaze
Koikaze (魔風恋風) and Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) and an unknown actor in unknown roles.
 
 

                 
Sawamura ? as ?
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Yoshitsune (義経)
 
Plays: Hizakura (緋櫻); Ibaraki (茨木);
Ichi no Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Suina Sabaki (粹なさばき)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/12
Print Date: 03/01/12
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki  Dôji (茨木童子) in
Ibaraki (茨木).

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Yoshitsune (義経)
 
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Midaroku ( 弥陀六)
 
Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) as Sagami (相模)
 
Plays: Date Masamune (伊達政宗); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Ichi-noTani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Iroha Shinsuke (いろは新助)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10/12
Print Date: 03/12/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例壽曾我); Nakoso no Seki (なこその關); Ichi no Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記); Shinjû Naniwa Harusame (心中浪華春雨); Fuwa Kazuemon (不破數右衛門)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/15
Print Date: 01/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Abe Saburo Munenori (阿部三郎宗任) and
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Yawata Taro Yôshiie (八幡太郎義家) in Nakoso no Seki (なこその關).
 
 

Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) as
Atsumori (敦盛) 
 
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                               
            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
            Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
         
            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/01/19
            Print Date: 04/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) as Atsumori (敦盛)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
 
Plays: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Nikkô Yômeimon (日光陽明門); Ibaraki (茨木);
Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲日記); Genroku Hanami Odori (元禄花見踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
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 Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki  Dôji (茨木童子) in  Ibaraki (茨木);
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kurihara Tôtômi (栗原遠江) in Nikkô Yômeimon (日光陽明門); and
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) in an unknown role.
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Midaroku ( 弥陀六)
         
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
            Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
 
            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was posthumously
            reissued in a slightly different color
            scheme when Kichiemon I reprised this
            role at the Shintomi-za in March 1922.
 
 
 
 

            
            Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
            Yoshitsune (義経)
 
            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as    
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Play: Kumagai Jin'ya (熊谷陣屋),
Act III, Scene 3 of Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
Gunki (一谷嫩軍記))
Performance Place:  Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #7
Personal Collection
   
Note: Kichiemon I also performed this
role at the Ichimura-za in February 1916.

                 
 
Plays: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆);
Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi (彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱); Jôruri Monogatari
(浄瑠璃物語); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/03/20
Print Date: 12/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani  Library
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
          
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/22
Print Date: 03/1922?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This design (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was originally
issued in a slightly different color
scheme circa June 1919 when Kichiemon
I played this role at the Kabuki-za. 
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as Kumagai (猪熊)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Asakusa
Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 04/01/24
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kumagai (猪熊)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko?
Performance Date: 04/01/24?
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Kichiemon I performed this role in Tokyo six times
between 1902 and 1924
 
 
 
 

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一の谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/20/26
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 3 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
 
 

   Tamaori-hime (玉織姫)
'

   Mukan Tayû Atsumori (無官太夫敦盛)
'

   Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)
'

Placement of characters on stage design
'

  Stage Design
'

Plays: Kaidan Botan Dôrô (怪異談牡丹灯篭); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Takadababa Homare Adauchi (高田馬場誉仇討)
Performance Place: Daikoku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/06/26
Print Date: 07/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);  Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石 噺); Gishimeimeiden (義士銘々伝 ); Sanjû Sanjo Tsubosakadera (三十三所壷坂寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/03/26
Print Date: 08/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                    
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
 
Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Midaroku ( 弥陀六)
 
Plays: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Saruhiki Fukudayu
(猿曳福太夫) in Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu
(蝙蝠安), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (お富; おとみ), and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎).
 
 
 

                    
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)
 
Plays:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Ôtsue (大津絵);  Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人);
Tsuta Momiji Utsunoya Tôge (蔦紅葉宇都谷峠)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
Note: The cover also depicts in Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as Fuji Musume (藤娘) in Ôtsue
(大津絵);  Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kurobê (九郎兵衛) and  Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎)
as Hyakushô Manbê (百姓万兵衛) in Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人); and Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵),
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵), and  Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) in unknown roles.
 
 
 

                 
Make-up Kumagai (能谷の隈)

Role: Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Print Date: 06/13/29
Artost" Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 8
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

 
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Gidayû Bushi (義太夫節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com 
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Atsumori (敦盛)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/37
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection
 
 
  
 

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/04/50
Print Date: 01/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shunsen Yakusha-e sen or Shunsen Shin Nigao-e sen
[Shunsen New Actor Picture Selection] (春仙新似顔絵選)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/04/50
Print Date: 01/1952
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as ?

Play: Kumagai Jin'ya (熊谷陣屋), Act III, Scene 3
of Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: It is unclear what character is depicted in the
print, although it is possible that it is Byakugô
Midaroku (白毫弥陀六), in reality Yaheibyôe
Munekiyo (弥平兵衛宗清).  Ennosuke II portrayed
Midaroku in Tokyo on at least five occasions.  His
last appearance in that role prior to the publication
of this print was at the Kabuki-za in January 1956.
A similar but more detailed version of this design is
shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs (and
appears to be a painting, not hanga-genga).
 
  

                   
Kumagai Naozane (熊谷直実)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
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), #11
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
[Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實) and
Taira no Atsumori (平敦盛)]
[Grappling] Kumiuchi (組討ち)
 
Play: Kumiuchi (組討ち), Act II, Scene 3 of
Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Print Date: 1996
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15?)
Image courtesy of the Ren Brown Collection
 
 
 
 

Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
 
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nakagawa Isaku (中川伊作)
Series: [Prints of Bunraku Puppets] Bunraku Ningyo Hanga no Uchi
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

? as ? (possibly Kumagai Jirō Naozane
(熊谷次郎直實))

Play: ? (possibly Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
Gunki (一谷嫩軍記))
Performance Place:?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

            
            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as
            Kumagai Naozane
            (熊谷直実)

            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
            Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
 
            Note: Kichiemon I first per-
            formed this role in Tokyo as the
            Asakusa-za in February 1902. 
            His final performance in Tokyo
            was at the Tokyo Gekijô in June
            1948.

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)
 
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role in
Tokyo at least three times between 1919
and 1936.

       
        Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as
        Sagami (相模)

        Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
        (一谷嫩軍記)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: c. 1935-1948
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
        Note: Baigyoku III portrayed Sagami
        at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in
        November 1936.  That production
        likely played Osaka or Kyoto around
        that time. 
 
 
 
 

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