Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門)
as Yatsuhashi (八つ橋)
           
Play: Kagotsurube (日向島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/02/17
Print Date: 08/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #8
Image courtesy of Tuula Moilanen

            
            Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
            Sano Jirôzaemon (佐野次郎左衛門)｜
           
            Play: Kagotsurube (日向島)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 08/02/17
            Print Date: 08/1917?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩) #8
            Image courtesy of Tuula Moilanen
 
 
  
 

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中雙六);
Sagi Musume (鷺娘); Yasuna (保名); Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街醉醒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/02/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中雙六);
Sagi Musume (鷺娘); Yasuna (保名); Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街醉醒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/02/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

[courtesan Yatsuhashi's wig]
Yatsuhashi no Kadzura (八橋の鬘)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街酔醒)
Print Date: 09/29/40
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Engeki to Buyô no Zukai Vol. 4  (演劇と舞踊の図解 第4編)
Medium: Woodblock printed book illustration
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Yatsuhashi (八ツ橋)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街酔醒)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1953
Print Date: 1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#2)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
                 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門)  as
Hyôgo-ya Yatsuhashi (兵庫屋八ツ橋)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街酔醒)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1961
Print Date: 04/1961?
Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
Personal Collection

Note: Utaemon VI's troupe who performed at the Kabuki-za in April
1961 also performed at the Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow, between
July 3-16, 1961.  This particular copy was given as a present to the
U.S.S.R. Minister of Education at some point during the tour. 
However, seeing as all of Mitsui Atsuo's other actor prints were
made in 1957, it is conceivable that this print could have originally
been made circa February 1956 or January 1958 in connection with
Utaemon VI's performances of Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame at the
Kabuki-za.  It is also possible that this design was reissued in 1961
in connection with the 1961 revival.  This copy and a second copy I
have seen were both hand-dated June 1961, Tokyo, suggesting
that it was printed on or before that date.  See also the entries for '
1966 and 1981 for variant print designs.
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門)  as
Hyôgo-ya Yatsuhashi (兵庫屋八ツ橋)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街酔醒)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/04/66?
Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
Personal Collection (#11/45)
 
Note: See the entries for 1961 and 1981 showing variant prints.
This color variant bears an hand-inscribed date of April 4, 1966,
and I have seen other copies with the same date.  It is possible
that it was reissued in connection with a revival of Kagotsurube
Sato no Eizame at the Kabuki-za in May 1964 that starred
Utaemon VI.  However, as certain other Atsuo designs were also
reissued in the mid-1960s, its publication likely was part of a
general undertaking to reissue Atsuo's prints.
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門)  as
Hyôgo-ya Yatsuhashi (兵庫屋八ツ橋)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街酔醒;
篭釣瓶花街酔醒)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/1981
Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
Personal Collection (#55/100)
 
Note: See the entry for 1961 and 1966 showing similar prints..
This color variant bears an inscribed date of September 1981 and
is signed in gold by the actor and sealed by him in read.   It is
possible that it was reissued to commemorate a revival of
Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame at the Kabuki-za in September 1980
that starred Utaemon VI, or some intervening regional production.
 

                   
Edition number slip  for preceding print (#55/100)

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門)  as
Hyôgo-ya Yatsuhashi (兵庫屋八ツ橋)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街酔醒;
篭釣瓶花街酔醒)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/1981
Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
Formerly in the Karl Collection
 
Note: This appears to be a printer's proof of the 1981 variant, as it
is not numbered, and is not signed or sealed by the actor.

                   
Hyôgo-ya Yatsuhashi (兵庫屋八ツ橋)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame
(籠釣瓶花街酔醒)
Date: 1992
Artist: Hiratsuka Akio (平塚昭夫)
Medium: Ex Libris stencil print
Courtesy of the National Museum of
Taiwan Literature
 

                 
Nakamura Fukusuke VIII (中村福助) as
Einojô (栄之丞; 栄之極)

Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame
(籠釣瓶花街酔醒)
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: Fukusuke VIII performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in November 1975, September 1986, and April
1992. 
 
  

L: Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as
Yatsuhashi  (八ツ橋)
R: Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as Onna Bashi (女馬子)
 
Play: L: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame
(籠釣瓶花街酔醒);
R: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: L: ?;
R: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: L: ?; R: 04/03/21
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: I have found records of Shôchô
II performing the role of Yatsuhashi at
the Meija-za in May 1928, at the
Kabuki-za in February 1932 and
December 1934, and at the Tokyo
Gekijô in May 1937, but these seem
to be too late in time given some
of the other performance dates for
other senshafuda in this series.
 
 
 
 
   

       
        Yatsuhashi (八つ橋)

        Play: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame
        (籠釣瓶花街酔醒)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson