KENUKI
(毛抜)

                 
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami Fudô Kitayama
Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 09/1914
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection

Note: This print was included in Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 8, No. 9 (September 1914) and may have been issued
separately as a stand-alone print around the same time.  It
was also published as part of a complete set in January 1916. 
A copy of the Engei Gahô version is also in the Karl collection.
 
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 5/03/17
Print Date: 05/1917?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #2
 
 
 

               
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Kaneko Saburô (金子三郎)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban Gajô (歌舞伎十八番画帖)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

Kumedera Danjô
(粂寺弾正)
   
Play: KaKenuki (毛抜)
Print Date: 09/21/27
Series: Kyōgen-Dukushi
(狂言づくし)
Medium: Woodblock
printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: The artist is possibly
Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠).
 
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/1928
Print Date: 03/31/1929
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Kabuki Omokage (歌舞伎俤草)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Personal Collection

Note: Seifû made a similar print of Sadanji II based on his May 1917
appearance at the Shintomi-za in Tokyo. 
 
 
 
 

                   
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection

Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of
Narukami Fudô
Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami Fudô Kitayama
Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 01/01/52
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 1, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection (#114)
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play:  Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/56
Print Date: 04/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

 
 
 

                   
Matsumoto Kôshirô VIII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play:  Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/59
Print Date: 03/1959 or later
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VIII also performed this role at the
Minami-za in Tokyo in February 1950.  I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects that
performance.  A similar but more detailed
version of this design is shown in the 2002 and
1991 Shunsen catalogs (and appears to be a painting).
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji IV (市川左團次) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/79
Print Date: 02/10/79
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 9)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 9
(第一期大首絵シリーズの9)
Personal Collection (ed. 36)
 
Note: Color variants of this print exist.
 
 
 
 

               
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3
of
Narukami Fudô Kitayama
Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)

Print Date: 10/23/1990
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi
(山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #2
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)] Kenuki (毛抜) II)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami Fudô
Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 1991
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
Image courtesy of the Ren Brown Collection
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act III of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻) [Act II in modern productions]
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/1994
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Kenuki (毛抜)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#10/80)
                
Note: This print would seem to have been based on a special gala
performance or a prior broadcast recording of Danjûrô XII's
performance.  Danjûrô XII's last regular performance as
Kumedera Danjô prior to the creation of this print that I could
find was at the Minami-za, Kyoto, in October 1992 before Binnie
arrived in Tokyo.  Danjûrô XII also performed the role at the
Kokuritsu Gekijō, Tokyo, in June 1991 and at the Kabuki-za,
Tokyo, in September 1990 and, as Ichikawa Ebizô X, at the
Kokuritsu Gekijō, Tokyo, in June 1982 and July 1973.
 
 
 
 

                   
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami Fudô Kitayama
Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Series: Kouta Kabuki Jûhachiban (小唄 歌舞伎十八番)
Medium: lithograph or collotype
Personal Collection

Note: The original Shinsui painting upon which this print
is based is dated 1961, so the print would have to be made
on or after that date.  Seeing as the prints were accompanied
by a cassette tape of kouta music, the prints likely date to
the late sixties at the earliest and more likely the 1970s. 
 
 
 
 

                 
[Kumedera Danjô  (粂寺弾正)] *** (***)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜き), Act III of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 30)
Image courtesy of the Art Touch Collection

                   
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of
Narukami Fudô Kitayama
Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Medium: Woodblock printed greeting
card
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

               
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami
Fudô Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Kumedera Danjô
(粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜),
Act 3 of Narukami
Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune
(鳥居忠宗)
Series: Kabuki
Jûhachiban
(歌舞伎十八番)
*Personal Collection
 
 
 

[Kabuki Jûhachiban  (歌舞伎十八番)] Sugoroku

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Some of the panels bear a passing resemblance to the small size Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番) prints Ota Gakô produced in 1931, but I do not feel that the resemblance
is sufficiently strong as to conclusively attribute the print to Ota.

Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act 3 of Narukami
Fudô Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: ?                    
Artist: ? 

Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)
 
Play:  Kenuki (毛抜)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Series: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection