IMOSEYAMA ONNA TEIKIN
(妹背山婦女庭訓)

Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as Omura (おむら)
    
Sawamura Tosshô III (澤村 訥升; 澤村訥舛) as Motome (求女)
    
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Omiwa (おみわ) 
    
Sawamura Tosshi VII (澤村訥子;沢村訥子) as
Kanawa Gorô (金輪五郎)

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/02
Print Date: 02/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 
 

           
            Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Omiwa (おみわ) and
            Iruka Daijin (入鹿大臣)

    





            Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/10/02
            Print Date: 02/1902
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Omiwa (お三輪)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Fukashichi (鱶七)
 
Plays: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Otokodate Gosho no Gorozô (侠客御所五郎蔵);
Roei no Yume (露営の夢); Kosode Maku Genroku Moyô (小袖幕元禄模様)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/29/05
Print Date: 04/01/05
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Hoshikage Doemon (星影土右衛門)
and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵) in Otokodate Gosho no
Gorozô (侠客御所五郎蔵).
 

Ichikawa Sôzaburô VI (市川宗三郎) as
Miyakoshi Genba (宮越玄蕃)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV as
Soga no Iruka (蘇我入鹿)
 
Ichikawa Dan'emon? (市川団右衛門)
as Aramaki Yatôji (荒巻弥藤次)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tōfu Ka Omura.(豆腐買おむら)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Omiwa (お三輪)
  
Ichikawa Komazô VIII as
Fukashichi (鱶七)

Play:  Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓), Act 4, Scene 4:
Mikasayama Goten (三笠山御殿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/07
Print Date: 06/01/07
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Uzaemon XV and Komazô VIII
alternated roles during this production.
 
 
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Onoe Baikô VI as Motome (求女)
 
Sawamura Tosshô III as
Princess Tachibana (橘姫)

                 
 
Plays: Iwatesan 岩手山); Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎蔵); Kokaji (小鍛冶); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/11
Print Date: 05/12/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Kôchiyama (河内山); Nozarashi Gosuke (野晒悟助)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/06/14
Print Date: 05/1914?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Omiwa (三輪; おみわ)
 
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   

Plays: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花); Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓); Shinobi Au Haru no Yuki Doke
(忍逢春雪解); Tenchi Kinôgi no E-Awase
(天地金扇面画合)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/02/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘);
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/19
Print Date: 11/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Fukashichi (鱶七)
 
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/05/21
Print Date: 01/1921?
Artist: ?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print is similar in format to the series
of prints designed  by Kunisada III between 1917
and 1920, and was probably issued by the
publisher in a limited attempt to continue the series
after Kunisada III's death in 1920.  It is also possible
that it is a posthumous reissue of an unknown
Kunisada III design.
 
 
 
    

           
Ôkabuki Engei Sugoroku (大歌舞伎 演藝双六)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Artist: ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

21. Imoseyama (妹背山)
Artist: ?
                     
          

                    
Plays: Ehon Taikôki (絵本太功記); Meihitsudomo no Matahei (名筆吃又平);
Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵);  Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/31/26
Print Date: 071926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
 
 

 Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
 Omiwa (お三輪)
          
 Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
 (妹背山婦女庭訓; 妹背山女庭訓)
 Performance Place: Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
 Performance Date: 10/06/26
Publication Date: 1927
Artist: ?
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Tsukiyukihana Nagori no Bundai (雪花名残文台); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Yakudoshi (厄年)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/02/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
 
 

                   
From top left to lower right:
 
1. Tanaka Kôka (田中耕花): Motome (求女) in
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
2.  Machida Shian (町田紫庵): ? in ?
3.  Takarada Nao (宝田直): Sekibê (関兵衛) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
4.   *mi Tashushi (*見立志): Sumizome (墨染) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
5.  Kitada Haruhiko (北田晴彦): Oiwa (お岩) in
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
6.  Inoue Matsuyoshi (井上松芳): Goemon (五右工門) in
Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐)
7.  Uchikawa Eihô (内川英峰): Hanaregoma Chôkichi
(放駒長吉) in Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記)
8.  Tsuda Kôraku (津田行楽):  ? in ?
9.  Higuchi Soyama (樋口蘇山): Urazato Tokijirô
(浦里時次郎) in Akegarasu (明烏)
10. Shirai Kôyuki (白井皎雪): ? in ?
11. Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫): Tadanobu (忠信) in
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
12. Minami Kichijirô (南吉次郎): Urazato (浦里) in
Akegarasu (明烏)

Print Date: 10/1933
Personal Collection

Note: Most of these artists are known matchbook cover/
adveritsing label artists.  In light of the title cartouche, it
is possible that this is the first panel of a triptych that
cumulatively contains 36 actor portraits.  The seal on
this print is the same as one found on two woodblock
printed postcards that resemble two 1925 prints by
Miyake Hanayama, and is likely a publisher seal.
 
 
 
 

                   
Motome (求女)

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓)
Print Date: 10/1933
Artist: Tanaka Kôka (田中耕花)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a close up of the
image from the oban sheet.

                   
Motome (求女)
 
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓)
Date: c. 1933
Artist: Tanaka Kôka (田中耕花)
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection

                   
Omiwa (お三輪)

Play:  Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hanabusa Hideki (花房英樹)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #12a
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
   
 
 

                 
Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵) as
Sugisakaya Musume Omiwa (杉酒屋娘お三輪)

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1981
Print Date: 06/1981
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵) as
Sugizakeya Musume Omiwa (杉酒屋娘お三輪)

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1981
Print Date: 10/1982
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal Collection (#118/200)

Omiwa (お三輪)

Title: Bunraku Imoseyama Omiwa (文楽妹背山お三輪)
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za
Date: 1982
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

[Hinadori (雛鳥)  left) and Koganosuke (right)]
Yoshinogawa (吉野川)
 
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Print Date: 2021
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 16)
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Matsue V (中村松江) as
Hinadori (雛鳥)

Play: Yoshinogawa (吉野川), Act III, Scene 3 of
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: Matsue V performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in April 1967, the Kokuritsu Gekijô in April 1974, and at
the Kabuki-za in May 1988 and April 1991.
 
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Fukashichi (鱶七)
 
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I performed this role
five times in Tokyo between February
1915 and April 1951.