Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as
'Musume Konami (娘小浪)




Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/28/1900
Print Date: 06/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

   Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
   市川左團次) as
   Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵)
  
   Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as
   Oishi (お石)


 

  Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
  市川小團次) as Rikiya (力弥)

    
      Ichikawa Enjo I (市川莚女) as
      Osono (おその)


     
    
       Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
      (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
      Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
      Performance Date: 06/28/1900
      Print Date: 06/1900
      Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
      (歌川国貞)
      Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
      Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 
 

    Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
    市川左團次) as
    Amakawaya Gihei (天川屋儀平)

  

 

  Ichikawa Botan II (市川ぼたん) as
  Gihei-ko (義平子)

  Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
  市川小團次) as Decchi (丁稚)

                   
Act VII: Rikiya (力弥)  and Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
Act IX: Komusô (虚無僧), Tonase (戸名瀬), and Konami (小浪)

Play: Acts VII (Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋)) and
IX (Yamashina Kankyo (山科閑居)) of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1901
Artist: Ogata Gekkô ((尾形月耕)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎)
as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Senzaki Yagorô {千崎弥五郎)
 
Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵)
as Yoichibê (与一兵衛)
 
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/09/02
Artist: ?
Image Courtesy of the
Ako City Museum of History
 
Note: I can find no record of
this cast performing together
in Tokyo in this play.   It likely
reflects a performance
outside of Tokyo.
 
 
 
   

                
Plays: Satomi Hakkenden (里見八犬伝); Kanadehon Chûshingura (忠臣講釈); Takatoki (高時);
Enoshima Sodachi Neoi no Chigogiku  (江島育根生児菊); Setsugekka Mitsugumi no Sakazuki
(雪月花三組杯觴)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/13/02
Print Date: 11/14/02
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover features Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Benten Kozô Kikunosuke (弁天小僧菊之助)
in Enoshima Sodachi Neoi no Chigogiku  (江島育根生児菊) and  Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎;
市川團十郎) as Hôjô Takatoki (北條高時) in Takatoki (高時).
  
 

 
? as  Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1903
Artist: ?  
Image courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
Note: This shinei possibly depicts Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎), who died in 1903.
 
 
  

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵)

Other actors not read

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/14/07
Print Date: 05/06/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

       
           
        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵); Momijigari (紅葉狩)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 11/14/07
        Print Date: 11/14/07
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
        Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as
Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)
 
Nakamura Kantarô II (中村翫太郎) as
Sagisaka Bannai (鷺坂伴内)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Kô no Moronô (高野師直)
 
Play: Ninjô (刃傷), Act 3, Scene 2 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/14/07
Print Date: 05/1911
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: In this production, different
actors covered certain roles in
certain performances.
 
 
 

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Ôshi Rikiya (大星力弥)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Okaru (おかる)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/06/09
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate
print.
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵); Katamigusa Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談);
Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Tôkyô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/09/09
Print Date: 10/11/09
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Tamiya Iemon (民谷伊右衛門) in
Katamigusa Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談) and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Fukuoka
Mitsugi (福岡貢) and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん; 油屋お紺) in Ise Ondo
Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃).
 

Kayano Sanpei (萱野三平)

Òishi Chikara (大石主税)

Òishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助)

Subject: Chùshingura  (忠臣蔵)
Senjafuda made for the Gishi-ren group)
Print Date: 03/11/11
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Oikawa collection
 
 
 
 

[Costume Competition Sugoroku] Ishô Kei Nigao Sugoroku (衣裳競似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/21/11
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).
 

       
        14. Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
                     
        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
 
 
 

            
            16. Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
                     
            Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
            (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵) 
            Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 

            
            Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
            Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵)    
           
            Play: Chûshingura Kudanme (忠臣蔵九段目), Act 9 of
            Kanadehon Chûshingura(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 10/16/12
            Print Date: 01/01/13
            Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

                 
 
Plays: Heikegani (史劇平家蟹); Chûshingura Kudanme (忠臣蔵九段目), Act 9 of Kanadehon
Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵) ; Kuni Zakai (國境); Oshun Denbê
Mukashigatamatsu Shirafuji (お俊傳兵衞昔形白藤); Gisei (犠牲); Katô Saemon (加藤左衞門);
Mitsu Uroko (三ツ鱗)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/16/12
Print Date: 10/1912
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                 
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chūshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵); Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri
(お染久松浮名の讀賣)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/14
Print Date: 04/1914?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1914
Print Date: 11/1914
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次)
as Heiemon (平右ェ門)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1914
Print Date: 11/1914
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助)
as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)  
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1914
Print Date: 11/1914
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Image courtesy of Fujiarts.com

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Okaru (お軽)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1914
Print Date: 11/1914
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Image courtesy of Fujiarts.com

                   

Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣藏);
Ninin Wankyû (二人椀久)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/14
Print Date: 11/03/14
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
 

Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as
Terasaka Kichiemon (寺坂吉右衛門)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Kobayashi Heihachi (小林平八)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kanzaki Yogorô (神崎与五郎)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Horibe Yasubê (堀部安兵衛)

Other actors not read

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/10/15
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate
print.
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Okaru (おかる)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

Nakamura  Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
Heiemon (平右衛門)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za. Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 1916
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)  as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chushingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
            Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

            Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
            (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/10/15
            Print Date: 05/1915?
            Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

            
            Horikoshi Fukusaburô (堀越福三郎) as
            Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

            Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
            (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/10/15
            Print Date: 05/1915?
            Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

            
            Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
            Moronô (師直)

            Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
            (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/10/15
            Print Date: 05/1915?
            Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/10/1915
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Also on the bill was Kioi Jishi (勢獅子).
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Kioishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/06/16
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of Hara Shobo
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Konomi (小浪)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place:  Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/22/17
Print Date: 10/06/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #2
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

       
        Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
        Yuranosuke (由良之助)
 
        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 09/22/17
        Print Date: 10/1917?
        Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
        (歌川国貞)
        Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
        (千代 栄劇彩)  #10
        Image courtesy of Tuula Moilanen
                       

         
          Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
          Tonami (戸名瀬)
 
          Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
          (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
          Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
          Performance Date: 09/22/17
          Print Date: 10/1917?
          Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
          (歌川国貞)
          Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
          (千代 栄劇彩)  #10
          Personal Collection
                       

         
          Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
          Honzô (本蔵)
 
          Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
          (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
          Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
          Performance Date: 09/22/17
          Print Date: 10/1917?
          Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
          (歌川国貞)
          Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
          (千代 栄劇彩)  #10
          Image courtesy of Tuula Moilanen
                       

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: 11/28/18
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #10
Personal Collection

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke
(大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: 11/28/18
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #10
Personal Collection
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: 11/28/18
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #10
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #1]
Personal Collection

Note: This print is not signed, but
the artist of certain other pochibukuro in
the set has been identified as Fujisawa.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)


Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Samurai Wakasanosuke (若狭之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
(歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
            Hangan (判官)
 
            Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
            (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 11/01/18
            Print Date: 11/1918?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
            (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

               
                Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
                Moronô (師直)
          
                Kanadehon Chûshingura
                (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 11/01/18
                Print Date: 11/1918?
                Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII
                (歌川国貞)
                Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
                (千代 栄劇彩)
                Image courtesy of Tuula Moilanen
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Komazo III (市川高麗蔵) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
depicted in the manner of Katsukawa Shun'ei (勝川春英)

Play: Chûkô Ryôgoku Ori (忠孝両國織)
Performance Place: Nakamura-za
Performance Date: 07/1790
Print Date: 10/10/20
Artist: Kitano Tsunetomi (北野恒富)
Medium: woobdblock print in the book Shin Nishiki-e jô:
Ukiyo-e no kao (新錦絵帖:  浮世絵の顔)
Personal Collection
 

                 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Tabi Sugata Omoi no Kake Ine
(旅姿思掛稲); Tsuyu no Harema Sora ha Sumiyoshi (入梅晴間空住吉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵)

Play: Yamashina Kankyo (山科閑居), Act IX of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/24
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#8)
Personal Collection

Note: Nizaemon XI first played this role at the Kabuki-za
in October 1917 and reprised the role at the Kabuki-za in
October 1921.  It is possible that Shunsen based this print
on one of those earlier performances.
 
 

               
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Okaru (おかる; お軽)


Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Shôchô II also portrayed Okaru in the Michiyuki
Tabiji no Hanamuko (道行旅路花聟) [Ochiudo (落人)]
dance interlude between Acts IV and V of Kanadehon
Chûshingura at the Hongô-za in March 1924.   I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects Shôchô II's
March 1924 performance.
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Teppô Watashi (鉄砲渡し), Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 7
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Teppô Watashi (鉄砲渡し), Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                    
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/04/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                    
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/04/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 01/1924
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Ôwashi Bungo (大鷲文吾)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 11/15/25
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Sagisaka Bannai (鷺坂伴内)

Play: Kanadehon Chushingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
Personal Collection

               
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
Personal Collection

                   
Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)

Play: Kanpei Harakiri (勘平腹切), Act 6 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#11)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Some authorities date this print to 1925, but I have found
no record of Eizaburô VII performing this role prior to February
1926.
 
 
 

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Okura (お軽; おかる)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo       
Performance Date: 04/1926
Print Date:  1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
 (當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
 Personal Collection

       
        Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
        Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平) 
       
        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo      
        Performance Date: 04/1926
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
        Personal Collection
 
 

Play: Act V of Kanadehon Chushingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/20/26
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 4 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物 大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum except as
noted

   Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
'

   Hyakushô Yoichibê (百姓 与一兵衛)
'

   Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
'  Personal Collection

Placement of characters on stage design
'

  Stage Design
'

Play: Act VII of Kanadehon
Chushingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵;
假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 07/26?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 5 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物 大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

   Teraoka Heiuemon (寺岡平右衛門)
'

   Yûjo Okaru (遊女お軽)
'

   Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
'

Placement of characters on stage design
'

  Stage Design
'

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)
       
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo     
Performance Date: 09/1926
Print Date:  1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
Personal Collection
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
as Okaru (おかる)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko
(道行旅路花聟) between Acts IV and
V of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
1st Collection] Butai Emaki dai
1-shû (舞台絵巻 第1集)
Personal Collection
       
 
 
 

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Chûshingura (忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1927
Medium: Lithograph
Print Date: 11/1927?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV also portrayed Kanpei in a
production of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵) a the Naka-za in Osaka in March
1924.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects that performance.
 
 

Play:  Chûshingura (忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/27
Print Date: 11/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
[1928 Calendar] Showa San Kotobuki Tatsu Nichiyô Kagami (昭和三寿辰日曜鑑)
 
January: Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致) and Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成) in a
Sogamono such as
Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)
February: ?
March: Ōtomo Kuronushi (大伴黒主) in Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪關扉)
April:  Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
May:  Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
June:   Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七) in Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七)
July: possibly Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平) and Okura (お軽) in  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
August: ?
September: ?
October:  Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
November: Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) in Shibaraku (暫)
December: Fujiya Izaemon (伊佐衛門) in Kuruwa Bunshô Yoshidaya
(廊文章吉田屋; 廓文章  吉田屋)

Print Date: 01/1928
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Magazine: New Year's Appendix to Engei Shashin (演芸写真), Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan. 1928)
Medium: Machine printing

Note:  Hasui designed 34 machine-printed covers for Engei Shashin (and its precedessor
Engei Shashin Chô) between October 1925 and July 1928.  Many of these issues contained
machine-printed forntispieces.  Since they were offset printed, they are outside the scope
of this website.  An exception, however, has been made for this calendar, which appears to
be unique in the Hasui canon.
 
 
 
 

                   
Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as Okaru (お軽)


Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura 
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/28
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#16)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Shûchô III died on September 22,
1935 at age 56.  He first played the role of Okaru in
Tokyo in April 1912, and his final Tokyo appearance in
this role was in November 1928 at the  Shinjuku
Shinkabuki-za. This print, however, closely resembles
a photograph from the November 1928 production at
the Hongô-za.
 
 
 
 

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/1928
Print Date: 11/1928?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

               
Kensaki Make-up (劒先の隈)


Role: Morono (師直); Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)
Play: Kanadehon Chushingura (假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵) Prologue; Soga Taimen (曾我対面) and
Soga no Ishidan (曽我の石段; 曾我の石段)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 40
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play:  Kanpei Harakiri (勘平腹切), Act VI of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/29
Print Date: [1929]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kikugorô VI first performed the role of Kanpei in
Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in June 1905.  He reprised this role
at the Kabuki-za in November 1907, at the Ichimura-za in
November 1910, at the Shinbashi Enbujô in February 1926,
and at the Hongô-za in April 1926.  For a similar, but later
portrait, see the entry for November 1947.
 
 
 

               
A Modern Kensaki (現今の劒先の隈)

Role: Morono (師直); Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)
Play: Kanadehon Chushingura (假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵) Prologue; Soga Taimen (曾我対面) and
Soga no Ishidan (曽我の石段; 曾我の石段)
Print Date: 11/13/29
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 11, No. 43
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/30
Print Date: 1950 or later
Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#24)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
 drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Tomoemon VI died on September
10, 1943 at age 58.
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Katamigusa Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談); Michiyuki Tabi no Hanamuko (道行旅路の花婿);
Kokoro no Yami no Kawanari (心闇軒蝙蝠)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/03/33
Print Date: 07/1933?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/10/36
Print Date: 03/1936?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Funa Benkei ( 船弁慶)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/31/37
Print Date: 10/1937
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Funa Benkei ( 船弁慶)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/31/37
Print Date: 10/1937?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 

Plays:  Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/38
Print Date: 10/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library