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
       
 
 
 

                    
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
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Tamiya Iemon (民谷伊右衛門) and
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Oiwa (房お岩) in Katamigusa Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談).
 
 

                   
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Sagisaka Bannai (鷺坂伴内)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/40
Print Date: 12/1955
Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: Mitsugorô VII also performed the role in Tokyo
at the Kabuki-za in November 1930, July 1933, April
1935, January 1938, and October 1938.  It is possible
that Shunsen based this print on one of those prior
performances.  A similar but more detailed version
of this design is shown in the 2002 and 1991
Shunsen catalogs bearing a March 1957 date (and
appears to be a painting, not hanga-genga).
 
 
 

                   
Yûjo Okaru (遊女お軽)

Play: Ochiudo Michiyuki
(落人道行) between
Acts IV and V of
Kanadehon
Chushingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Yuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 雪の巻)
Image courtesy of
Artelino.com

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Koshimoto Okaru (腰元おかる)

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: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1950
Print Date: 10/1951
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
 
 
 
 

Okaru (おかる)
 
Kanpei (勘平)
 
Play: Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko (道行旅路花聟), Act VIII of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Date: 1954
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎) (1954)
Series: [Woodblock Prings of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 1
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Koshimoto Okaru (腰元おかる)

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:Meij-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/04/55
Print Date: 08/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

                   
Jitsukawa Enjirô II (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Ôtani Tomoemon VII (大谷友右衛門) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)

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: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/1959
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: I have not found an instance where both
actors appeared together in Tokyo in these roles.
They did perform the Michiyuki Tabiji no
Hanamuko (道行旅路の花聟) scene of Kanadehon
Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
together at the  Osaka Kabuki-za in October 1955
and at the Minami-za in Kyoto in December 1955.
A similar but more detailed version of this design
is shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs
(and appears to be a painting).
 
 
 
  

                   
Okaru (おかる)

Play:  Ochiudo (落人) travel dance between
Acts IV and V ofKanadehon Chushingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: 04/01/72
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Machine printed magazine cover
Publication: [Japanese Dance]
Nihon Buyô (⽇本舞踊) Vol. 24, No. 4 (April 1, 1970)
Personal Collection
         

                   
Okaru (おかる)

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

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji IV (市川左團次) as
Sagisaka Bannai (鷺坂伴内)

Play: Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko
(道行旅路の花聟), between Acts IV and V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/1988
Print Date: 05/1988
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Scenes from the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Rokkei
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六景)
Personal Collection (#18/72)
 
 
 
 

                   
Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play: Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko
(道行旅路の花聟), etween Acts IV and V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/1988
Print Date: 07/1988
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Scenes from the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Rokkei
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六景)
Personal Collection (#35/72)
 
 
 

[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)