Onoe Kikugoro V Death Prints

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

Shini-e (Death) Prints

By UTAGAWA KUNISADA III (歌川国貞)
aka Baidô Hôsai (梅堂豊斎)
Baidô Kunimasa IV (梅堂国政)
Kôchôrô Hôsai (香朝楼豊斎)

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

   Print Date: 02/1903
     Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Print Date: 02/1903?

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

UNKNOWN ARTIST