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)

                   
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
 
 
 

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
 

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
 
 

         
          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
 
 
 
 
                       

                   
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.
 
 

                 
Jitsukawa Enjaku III (實川延若) as Ôboshi Rikiya (大星力弥)

Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Tonase, wife of Honzô (本蔵妻戸無瀬)

Play: Yamashina Kankyo (山科閑居), Act IX of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (山科閑居)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1978
Print Date: 07/1978
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection

Note: A trial work, not publicly sold.  The first ten printed were destroyed,
and then a second ten were printed.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門)  as
Honzô Tsuma Tonase (本蔵妻戸無瀬)

Play: Yamashina Kankyo (本蔵妻戸無瀬),
Act 9 of Kanadehon Chushingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/84
Print Date: 11/1984
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 7)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 7
(第三期大首絵シリーズの7)
Personal Collection (#36/45)
 
 
 
 

                   
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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

       
        Teraoka Heiuemon (寺岡平右衛門)
 
        Tonase (戸名瀬)
     
        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 Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
        as Honzô Tsuma Tonase (本蔵妻戶無瀬)

        Play: Act 9 of Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: pre-1937
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: Toy man Hamajima Shizunami
        (濱島静波) commissioned Sadanobu
        III to produce this card for Muramatsu
        Hyakutoan (村松百兎庵 ) aka
        Muramatsu Shigeru (村松茂), a
        famous collector of local toys, kokeshi
        dolls, New Year's cards, and clay
        bells.