ONOE KIKUGORÔ V (尾上菊五郎)
(June 4, 1844 - February 18, 1903)

  Shini-e (Death) Prints

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Benten Kozô Kikunosuke
 
Play: Enoshiima Sodachi Neoi no
Chigogiku (江島育根生児菊)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/13/1902
Print Date: 02/1903
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: While the print does not identify
the performance, the fact that
Kikugorô V performed this role shortly
before his death suggests that it is
the performance depicted.  His
most immediately prior performance
in Tokyo was in 1895.
 
 
 

                            
                             Print Date: 02/1903 or later
                             Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan

              
               Print Date: 02/1903  
                Image courtesy of the Edo-Tokyo Museum

Print Date: 02/1903     
Image courtesy of the National Theatre
of Japan
 
 
 
 

                         
               Print Date: 02/20/03    
               Image courtesy of the National Theatre
               of Japan

    
     Print Date: 02/21/03    
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre
     of Japan

               
               Print Date: 02/1903    
               Image courtesy of the National Theatre
               of Japan   

               
               Print Date: 02/1903 or later 
               Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan
               ARC Collection

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Benten Kozô Kikunosuke
 
Play: Enoshima Sodachi Neoi no
Chigogiku (江島育根生児菊)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/13/1902
Print Date: 02/1903?  
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
    
 

                     
     Print Date: 02/1903
     Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

            
Print Date: 02/1903?  
 
 
 
  

            
Print Date: 02/1903?
Image courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
 
 
  

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
  
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 02/18/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: Kikugorô V performed this role in
Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in January
1881, at the Naka-za in June 1888, at
 the Shintomi-za in July 1890, and at
 the Meiji-za in March 1896. 
 
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
  
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 02/18/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
 Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: .This is a reworked version of an
1893 Kunisada print of Ichikawa Sadanji
I (市川左団次) as Togashi Saemon. 
Kikugorô V performed this role in Tokyo at
the Shintomi-za in May 1890, and at the
Kabuki-za in April 1899.
 
 
 
 

            
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Benten Kozô Kikunosuke
 
Play: Enoshima Sodachi Neoi no
Chigogiku (江島育根生児菊)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/13/1902
Print Date: 02/1903?  
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
  

            
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1903? 
Image courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
Note: This print possibly depicts
Kikugorô V as Tsubone no Iwafuji
(局岩藤) in Kagamiyama Kokyô no
Nishikie (鏡山故郷錦).