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.
 
 
 
   

[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)
 
 
 

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
 
 
 
 

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
 
 
 

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

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

                   
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

               
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? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

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
'

                 
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.
 
 

                   
[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.
 
 
 
 

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

Play:  Act V 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.
 
 
 

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

Play:  Act V of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/28/47
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note:  This was Kikugorô VI's last appearance in
this role in Tokyo.  Kikugorô VI died on July 10,
1949, so depending on the publication date of
this print, it is possible that it was intended as a
memorial print.  Like most of Shunsen's hanga-
genga, it was likely made in the late 1950s. 
However, this was a signature role for Kikugorô
VI, who first performed the role Ichimura-za in
June 1905, and reprised the role in Tokyo on at
least 9 subsequent occasions.  It cannot be ruled
out that the print was made prior to the end of
WWII and/or that it may actually depict some
pre-War performance.  The design is extremely
similar to the print released by Watanabe in 1929.
 
 
  

                   
Bandô Minosuke VI (坂東簑助; 坂東蓑助; 坂東衰助) 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: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/53
Print Date: 11/1953
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                   
Hyakushô Yoichibê (百姓与一兵衛)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1966
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Title: Yochibei - Chushingura
Personal Collection (#5/50)
 
 
 

                   
Senzaki Yagoro (千崎弥五郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1966 (ed. 50)
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Title: Chushingura Senzaki Yagoro
Image courtesy of Lambsquay Japanese Print Gallery
 
 
 

                   


Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Title: ?

Note: The title for this print is presumably
Chushingura IV, and it was likely produced
in 1967.  The image was taken from a tiny
digital image of an offset print showing
all four Chushingura designs but a separate
woodblock print version is believed to exist.
 
 
 

                   
[Striped Purse] Shima no Saifu (縞の財布)
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Act 5 of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

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

 

                 
Onoe Tatsunosuke I (尾上辰之助) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Act 5 [Scene 2 - Teppô Watashi] of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/86
Print Date: 02/1987
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)
 
 
 
 

                 
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1995
Artist: Takahashi Kin'ya (高橋欣也)
Medium: woodblock printed postcard
Personal 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
 
 
 

[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's
1924 print of Oschichi.

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)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Sadanji II performed this role in Tokyo
at the Kabuki-za in November 1918 and in
April 1921, at the Hongô-za in December
1924, and at the Meij-za in May 1931.
 
 
 
 

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

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role in
Tokyo twelve times between November
1904 and October 1942.
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kanpei (勘平)
     
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection
 
Note: It is unclear if this postcard is
handpainted or woodblock printed.
Uzaemon XV performed this role in
Tokyo twelve times between November
1904 and October 1942.
 
 

       
        Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
        Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
 
        Yoichibê (与一兵衛)
     
        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

       
        ? as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (假名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        senshafuda
        Personal Collection

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

        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Artist: ?     
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        matchbook cover
 
         Note: Sadanji II performed this
         role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
         November 1918 and April 1921,
         at the Hongo-za in December 1924,
         and at the Meiji-za in May 1931.