JAYANAGI
(蛇柳)

aka KÔYASAN JAYANAGI (高野山蛇柳)
aka MOMO CHIDORI ÔISO GAYOI (百千鳥大磯流通)

                 
Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: 03/1916
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print was included in Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 10, No. 3 (March 1916) and may have been issued
separately as a stand-alone print around the same time.  It
was also published as part of a complete set in January 1916.
A copy of the Engei Gahô version is in the Karl collection. 
 
 
 

               
Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Kaneko Saburô (金子三郎)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban Gajô (歌舞伎十八番画帖)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

                   
Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: 04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection

                 
Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: 12/01/53
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 3, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
*Personal Collection (#114)
 
 

               
Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: 04/23/1990
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #1
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Series: Kouta Kabuki Jûhachiban (小唄 歌舞伎十八番)
Medium: lithograph or collotype
Personal Collection

Note: The original Shinsui painting upon which this print
is based is dated 1961, so the print would have to be made
on or after that date.  Seeing as the prints were accompanied
by a cassette tape of kouta music, the prints likely date to
the late sixties at the earliest and more likely the 1970s. 

                   
Hebiyanagi no Sei 
(蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban
(歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 

[Kabuki Jûhachiban  (歌舞伎十八番)] Sugoroku

Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Some of the panels bear a passing resemblance to the small size Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番) prints Ota Gakô produced in 1931, but I do not feel that the resemblance
is sufficiently strong as to conclusively attribute the print to Ota.

Hebiyanagi no Sei  (蛇柳の精)

Play: Jayanagi (蛇柳)
Artist: ?