KATAKIUCHI SHIRAISHI BANASHI
(敵討白石噺)

                 
 
Plays: Katakiuchi Shiraishi Banashi (敵討白石噺); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫); Yakko Dôjôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/18
Print Date: 03/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Izayoi (十六夜)

Play:  Sato no Harugi Aazami Ironui
(柳巷春着薊色縫)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/07/20
Print Date: 02/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: During the relevant time period
when the print could have been made,
Baikô VI also performed this role at
the Hongô-za in June 1924 and at the
Teikoku Gekijô in June 1926.  It is
possible that this print reflects one of
those performances.
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Zenzen Taieiki (前々太平記); Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Kasane Monogatari (累物語); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo           
Performance Date: 07/1948
Print Date: 07/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集)
Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied
color on verso
Personal Collection

Note: This the design on the wrapper for
the prints in this series.  It is possible that the
print depicts a generic Jôruri reciter, and not
a specific performer in any particular play at
the Mitsukoshi Gekijô.  The plays on the bill
at the Mitsukoshi Gekijô in July 1948 were
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談);
Shinobi Yoru Koi no Kusemono
(忍夜戀曲者); Sato Moyô Azami no Ironui
(花街模様薊色縫); and Koreha Hyôban
Ukina no Yomiuri (是評判浮名讀賣).

 
  Ôtani Tomoemon VII (大谷友右衛門) as 
  Motome (求女)

  Play: Sato Moyô Azami no Ironui (花街模様薊色縫)
  Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 07/1948
  Print Date: 07/1948?
  Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
  Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
  Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
  Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color
  on verso
  Personal Collection

            
            Ôtani Tomoemon VII (大谷友右衛門) as
            Izayoi (十六夜)
 
            Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as Seishin (清心)
           
            Play: Sato Moyô Azami no Ironui (花街模様薊色縫)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/1948
            Print Date: 07/1948?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
            Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
            Personal Collection

            
            Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as Seishin (清心)
            Ôtani Tomoemon VII as Izayoi (十六夜)
 
            Kataoka Ichizô V (片岡市蔵) as
            Ôdera Shôbei (大寺正兵衛)
           
            Play: Sato Moyô Azami no Ironui (花街模様薊色縫)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/1948
            Print Date: 07/1948?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
            Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
            Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color
            on verso
            Personal Collection