KAMAHIGE
(鎌髭)

aka KEISEI MURASAKI TAZUNA (傾城紫手綱)
aka SOGA MOYO AIGO NO WAKAMATSU (曾我*愛護若松)
aka OATSURAEZOME SOGA HINAGATA (御誂染曾我雛形))


OCTOBER 1910

                 
 
Plays: Kamahige (鎌髭); Ko Bon'nô (子煩悩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/08/10
Print Date: 10/10/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed 0sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 





JULY 1914

                   
Tawara no Kotôta (俵藤太and
Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

Play:  Kamahige (鎌髭)
Print Date:  07/1914
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. 8, No. 7 (July 1914) 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
 
 
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1917

               
Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

Play:  Kamahige (鎌髭)
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
 
 
 

APRIL 1931

                   
Tawara no Kotôta (俵藤太and
Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

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

                                    


Tawara no Kotôta (俵藤太and
Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

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

             

DECEMBER 1953

               
Tawara no Kotôta (俵藤太) and
Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

Play:  Kamahige (鎌髭)
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)
 
 
 

1983

                   
Sôma Masakado (相馬将門)

Play: Kamahige (鎌髭)
Print Date: 1983
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Series: Kyoto (京都)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 


 

JANUARY 1991

               
Taira no Yoshikado
(平良門)

Play:  Kamahige (鎌髭)
Print Date: 01/23/91
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #3
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

UNDATED PRINTS

                   
Tawara no Kotôta (俵藤太and
Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

Play:  Kamahige (鎌髭) 
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. 
 
 


                   
Tawara no Kotôta
(俵藤太) and
Taira no Yoshikado
(平良門)

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

               
Tawara no Kotôta (俵藤太) and
Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

Play:  Kamahige (鎌髭)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)

 



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

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
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.



           
           

            
            Tawara no Kotôta (俵藤太and
            Taira no Yoshikado (平良門)

            Play:  Kamahige (鎌髭)
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?