Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Okaru (お軽)
     
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Furuya Shin (古家新)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Series: Kabuki Sobyô-shû
(歌舞伎 素描集)
Personal Collection

Note: Although the role is not specifically
identified and Baikô VI played several
female roles in this play over the course
of his career, it is mostly likely Okaru. 
Baikô VI performed this role in Tokyo
at least eight times between November
1904 and November 1930.
 
 
 

               
Ôtaka Bungo (大鷲文吾)

Play: Kanadehon Chushingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
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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: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
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        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
        En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)

        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
       
        Note: Gadô IV played Hangan in a
        production at the Shinbashi Enbujô in
        Tokyo in June 1935.  It is possible that
        he also performed the role in Osaka
        around that time.
 

       
        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: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Image courtesy of Serge
        Astieres
 
        Note: Ganjirô I first portrayed
        Kamiya Jihê in Tokyo at the
        Kabuki-za in October 1906. 
        He reprised the role at the
        Shintomi-za in May 1911 and
        October 1916, and at the
        Kabuki-za in April 1917
 
 
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Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                   
Kaoyo Gozen

Play:  Daijo/Kabuto Aratame (大序/兜改め),
Act I of Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place:  ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 

                   
Momonoi [Wakasanosuke] Yakata (桃井館)

Play: Matsukiri (松切), Act II, Scene 2 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
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Play: Ninjô (殿中刃傷), Act III, Scene 2 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                   
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Shiro Akewatashi (城明渡し), Act IV,
Scene 2 of Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 

                   
Sadakurō (定九郎)

Play:  Futatsudama (二つ玉), Act V, Scene 2 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 
 

                   
Okaru (おかる)

Play: Kanpei Harakiri ( 勘平腹切), Act VI of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                   
 Rikiya (力弥)

Play:  Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋),
Act VII of Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place:  ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                   
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Play: Mikiyuki Tabiji no Yomeiri (道行旅路之嫁入), 
Act VIII of Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 

                   
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Play: Yamashina Kankyo (山科閑居), Act IX of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                   
Amakawaya Gihei (天川屋義平)

Play: Amakawaya Gihei Uchi (天川屋義平内),
Act X of  Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
   
 

                   
Gishi (義士)

Play:  Uchiiri (討入), Act  XI of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 

                   
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Play: Honmô Hikiage (本望引揚),
Act 12 [sic: 11] of Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門) as
Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
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: Kichiemon II portrayed Kanpei in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in September 1974 and March 1980.
 

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

Play:  Chûshingura (忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nobukata (Nobumasa?) (信方)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Although it is not clear the time period that Nobukata
was active, it is believed to have been in the 1920s.   During
that period, Uzaemon XV performed this role in Tokyo at the 
Kabuki-za in March 1921, at the Teikoku Gekijô in June 1922,
at the Kabuki-za in February 1927, at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1927, and at the Kabuki-za in February 1929.

[Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
[Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾shin上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
(直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

Print Date: c. 1920s
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)

Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles prints and paintings
made by Shikô in the 1920s.  See, for
example, Shikô's1924 print of Oschichi.

       
        [Okaru's Travel Dance]
        Michiyuki no Okaru
        (道行きのおかる)
 
        Dance: Ochiudo (落人),
        Interlude between Acts IV
        and V of  Kanadehon
        Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô (山川秀峰)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochikuburo
        Series: [Ten Aspects of Dance]
        Buyô Jyû-shû no Uchi
        (舞踊十種之内)
 

 
         
          Kataoka Nizaemon XI
          (片岡仁左衛門) as
          Yuranosuke (由良之助)
         
          Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
          (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
          Artist: ?
          Medium: Woodblock printed
          matchbook cover
 
          Note: Nizaemon XI performed
          this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
          za in November 1915,
          November 1918, and April
          1921.