? 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.
 
 
  

[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).
 

            
            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)

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
 
 
 
 

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
 
 
 

                    
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
 
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play:  Chûshingura Nenjû Gyôji (忠臣藏年中行事)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/28
Print Date: 10/1928?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Nizaemon XI also performed this role in
Kanadehon Chûshingura at the Kabuki-za in April 1921.
Given that 1921 and 1928 appear to be rather early and late,
respectively, for a Hanayama print, it is possible that the
print reflects an intermediate  performance outside of Tokyo.
 

                   
Bandô Jusaburô III
(坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎;  阪東寿三郎) 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: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1950
Print Date: 03/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version ofFigures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次) 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: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/52
Print Date: 1955?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#9)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Nakamura Uzaemon XV (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)
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二 ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Òishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助)

Play: Chûshingura (忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1982 (ed. 100)
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Series: Chûshingura Jûni-kei
(忠臣蔵十二競)

 

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

Play: Act 4 of Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/04/86
Print Date: 11/1986
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, Six Acts from Kanadehon Chûshingura]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Kanadehon Chûshingura Roku-maku
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・女形大首六姿)
Personal Collection (#11/54)

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences II (01/2000).
 
 
 
 

                   
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
 
 

           
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Kô no Moronô (高師直)
     
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) 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: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
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