KAGAMIYAMA KOKYÔ NO NISHIKIE
(鏡山故郷錦)

aka KAGAMIYAMA (鏡山)
aka SHIN KAGAMIYAMA (新鏡山)

 
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1903?
Artist: ?  
Image courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
Note: This print possibly depicts Kikugorô V as Tsubone no Iwafuji
(局岩藤) in Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (鏡山故郷錦).
 
 
 
  

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as Chûrô Onoe (中老尾上)
 
Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (鏡山舊錦繪); Kanjinchô (勧進帳); Azuma Odori (吾妻踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/14
Print Date: 04/1914?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門), Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶), and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳). 
 
 

               
Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Chûrô Onoe (中老尾上)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki
(鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #6
^Personal Collection
 
Note: This design was posthumously
reissued in a slightly different color scheme
when Nakamura Utaemon V performed this
role at the Shintomi-za in February 1922.
 
 
 
 

Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Ohatsu (お初)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki
(鏡山故郷錦) 
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #A]
Courtesy of Artelino.com
 

Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Ohatsu (お初)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki
(鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #1]
Personal Collection

Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Ohatsu (お初)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki
(鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Personal Collection

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Ohatsu (お初)


Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki (鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
Personal Collection

Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助;  澤村宗之助)
as Ohatsu (お初)
 
Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no
Nishiki (鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Ichimura-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Medium: woodblock printed
Senshafuda
Personal Collection
 

            
            Onoe Kikugorò VI
            (尾上菊五郎) as
            Iwafuji (岩藤)
           
            Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no
            Nishiki (鏡山故郷錦)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/02/18
            Print Date: 02/1918?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Shin Kagamiyama (新鏡山); Shinobu Sato Busshi no Monogatari (信夫里佛師物語);
Ikiutsushi Asagao Nikki  (生寫朝顔日記); Uso no Yo no Naka (嘘の世の中)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/18
Print Date: 05/1918?
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as  Komazawa Jirozaemon
(駒沢次郎左衛門) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tokuemon (徳右衛門) in Ikiutsushi Asagao
Nikki  (生寫朝顔日記).  The other actor and his role is as yet unidentified.
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Chùsha VII (市川中車) as
Tsubone no Iwafuji (局岩藤)
          
Play: Kagamiyama Kokyò no Nishikie
(加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum
of Art

Note: This design (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was likely
originally issued in a slightly different
color scheme with a different actor
playing this role.  A copy of the original
version of this print has not as yet been
located.  However, it is also possible
that it is the work of another artist.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
Chûrô Onoe (中老尾上)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki
(鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
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 (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was originally
issued in a slightly different color scheme
with a different actor playing this role in
February 1918.
 
 
 

Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山舊錦繪); Uishiraga (初白髪);
Momijigari (紅葉狩); Mieidô Shinjû (御影堂心中); Azuma Bune (浅妻舟); Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山舊錦繪); Uishiraga (初白髪);
Momijigari (紅葉狩); Mieidô Shinjû (御影堂心中); Azuma Bune (浅妻舟); Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
(加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo   
Performance Date: 09/02/94
Print Date: 06/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Shikan - Ohatsu (芝翫 - お初)
Personal Collection (#5/100)

                
                 Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

                 Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
                 (加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
                 Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                 Performance Date: 09/02/94
                 Print Date: 06/1997
                 Artist: Paul Binnie
                 Print Title: Shikan - Ohatsu (芝翫 - お初)
                 Personal Collection

                 Note: Color test print
 
 
 

                                 
                Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

                Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
                (加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo  
                Performance Date: 09/02/94
                Print Date: 03/2008
                Artist: Paul Binnie
                Print Title: Narikomaya no Mudagaki (成駒屋のむだ書)
                Medium: color woodblock (background and keyblock
                outline) with kappazuri coloring
                Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
                Personal Collection (#7/35)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Iwafuji (岩藤; 岩ふじ)
           
Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no
Nishikie (鏡山旧錦繪)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Baikô VI performed this
role in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijô in April 1914 and at the
Ichimura-za in February 1918.