NOVEMBER 1906
Onoe Kikugorô VI (中村芝翫) as Shirai Gonpachi
(白井権八)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村 羽左衛門) as Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛;
幡随院長兵衛)
Play: Hiyoku no Mon Itoshî Noji (比翼紋愛井の字)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/15/06
Print Date: 11/1906?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Three woodblock printed postcards
Personal Collection
MARCH 1907
Ichikawa Sôzaburô VI (市川宗三郎) as
Miyakoshi Genba (宮越玄蕃)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV as
Soga no Iruka (蘇我入鹿)
Ichikawa Dan'emon? (市川団右衛門)
as Aramaki Yatôji (荒巻弥藤次)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tōfu Ka Omura.(豆腐買おむら)
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Omiwa (お三輪)
Ichikawa Komazô VIII as
Fukashichi (鱶七)
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓), Act 4, Scene 4:
Mikasayama Goten (三笠山御殿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/07
Print Date: 06/01/07
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Uzaemon XV and Komazô VIII
alternated roles during this production.
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
Onoe Baikô VI as Motome (求女)
Sawamura Tosshô III as
Princess Tachibana (橘姫)
NOVEMBER 1907
En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)
Kô no Moronô (高野師直)
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
Okaru (お軽)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵); Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/14/07
Print Date: 11/14/07
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi1907 Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫), Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵),
Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助),
and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) rotated in the role of Ôboshi
Yuranosuke (大星由良之助);
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) and Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助)
rotated in the role of Kô no Moronô
(高野師直); Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸), Ichimura
Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門),
Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛), and Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) rotated in the role of
En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸), Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門), Sawamura
Tosshô III (沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛), and Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
rotated in the role of Hayano
Kanpei (早野勘平); and Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫), Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸), and Sawamura Tosshô III
(沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛) rotated in the role of Okaru (お軽).
JUNE 1909
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Ôshi Rikiya (大星力弥)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Okaru (おかる)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/06/09
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: This appears to be a mitate
print.
Ichikawa Danzo VII (市川団蔵;
市川團蔵) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Takechi Jûjirô (武智十次郎)
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hatsugiku (初菊)
Play: Ehon Taikôki
(絵本太功記); On'na Kusunoki (女楠); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛); Setsugekka
(雪月花)
Performance Place:
Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/09
Artist: ?
Print Date: 06/04/09
Medium: Woodblock printed
sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
[Peeking at the Kabuki-za] Kabuki-za no Zoki (歌舞伎座のぞき)
[Performing Arts Caricatures] Engei Fûshiga (演藝諷刺畫)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Takechi Jûjirô (武智十次郎)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
? as ?
Plays: Ehon Taikoki (絵本太功記); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛); ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/09
Artist: Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤樂天)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Illustration to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 3, No. 8 (July 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
JULY 1909
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Mikawaya Giheiji (三河屋儀平次)
Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:07/1909
Artist: Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 4, No. 7 (July 1, 1910)
Image courtesy of the University of California
Note: Given that the artist most recently appeared in a
production
of this play in Tokyo a year earlier, it is reasonable to assume
that
he was depicting himself and his co-star in this print.
SEPTEMBER 1910
? as ?
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsushima Senta (松島千太)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Akashi no Shimazô (明石の島蔵)
Plays: Shima Chidori Tsuki (島鵆月白浪); Hachijin Shugo no Honjô
(八陣守護城);
Fûryû Kuruwa-tsû (風流曲輪通); Toba-e Masu Ochi (鳥羽絵升落);
Mochizuki no Yoru no Tama Usagi (望月夜玉兎)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/13/10
Print Date: 09/15/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
JULY 1911
Onoe Kikugorô (尾上菊五郎) as Enma Daiô (閻魔大王)
Play: Enma-ô (閻魔王)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/09/11
Artist: Hayashi Ryokusui (林緑水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 5, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1911)
Image courtesy of the University of California
DECEMBER 1911
[Fifty-Three Stations of Kabuki New Year's Sugoroku] Gojusan Eki
Kabuki Kotobuki Sugoroku (五十三驛歌舞伎壽双六)
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Published: Supplement to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1912)
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎)
Artist: Torii
Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎)
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
[Portrait Sketches (Nakamura Kichiemon as Mitsuhide, Onoe
Kikugorô VI as Nobunaga)]
Nigao Sho (Kichiemon no *, Motoramarô no Nobunaga) (似顔書(吉右門の*,
菊五郎の信長)
Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/28/11
Artist: Hayashi Ryokusui (林緑水)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 6, No. 7 (July 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
FEBRUARY 1912
Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe
sugoroku)
Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection
Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Yamakage Ukyô (山陰右京)
Play: Migawari Zazen
(身替座禅)
Performance Place:
Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/17/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen
(名取春仙)
Plays: Chikamatsu Kaikei Soga (近松会稽曽我); Higo no Kami Kiyomasa
(肥後守清正);
Migawa Zazen (身替座禅); Koi Sumô Haru Kaobure (恋相撲春顔触);
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (寿靭猿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/17/12
Print Date: 02/17/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover possibly depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Ochikubo Koshirô (落窪小四郎)
and Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in
Higo no Kami Kiyomasa
(肥後守清正).
SEPTEMBER 1912
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
[Eight Years as a Showman]
Kōgyōshi to Natsu te Hirou Hachinen (興行師となつて拾う八年)
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 1, No. 6 (Sept. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
OCTOBER 1912
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tsuchigumo (土蜘)
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Hirai Yasumasa (平井保昌)
Plays: Yûshô no Tsuma (勇将の妻); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Hiyokuzuka Obana
Teranishi
(比翼塚尾花寺西); Go Henka (五変化)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/25/12
Print Date: 10/25/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
DECEMBER 1912
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Sumizome (墨染)
Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/12/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
JANUARY 1913
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Yakkodako ( 奴凧)
Play: Yakkodako ( 奴凧)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/13
Print Date: 1913?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
MARCH 1913
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Akiro (秋色)
Play: Akirozakura (秋色櫻)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/13
Print Date: 04/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 7, No. 4 (Apr. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
JANUARY 1914
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Gorô Tokimune (五郎時致)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Jurô Sukenari (十郎祐成)
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/01/14
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1914)
Image courtesy of the University of California
? as Watônai (和藤内) in Kokusen'ya Gassen (国性爺合
戦)
Kataoka
Nizaemon
XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke
(大星由良之助 ) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵;
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Torazô (虎蔵) in
仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Kikubatake (菊畑), Act III, Scene II of Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no
Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻), which opened at the Kabuki-za in
Tokyo Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tora (虎) in ?
in November 1912.
Ichikawa Yaozô VII
(市川八百蔵) as ?
Ichikawa Danshirô II (段四郎) as Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳), which opened at the
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as ?
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in April 1911.
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Utanosuke (雅楽之助 in Domo
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as [Electra] Erekutora
Mata (吃又)
(エレクトラ) in [Electra] Erekutora (エレクトラ), which
opened at the Teikoku Gekijô in Tokyo on October 1, 1913.
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Toranosuke
Masakiyo (虎之助正请) in Kinkakuji (金閣寺), Act IV of Gion
Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記), which opened at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in January 1902 and again in July 1907.
Artist: Arai Hakuchi (新井白雉)
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1914)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
APRIL 1914
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/1914
Print Date: 05/01/14
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 8, No. 5 (May 1, 1914)
Image courtesy of the University of California
JULY 1914
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)
Play: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura
(敵討天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/10/14
Print Date: 11/14/14
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #1]
Personal Collection
SEPTEMBER 1914
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Aoki Teijirô (青木貞次郎)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kamiya Genzō (神谷玄蔵)
Plays: Ansei Kibun Tsukuda no Yoarashi
(安政奇聞佃夜嵐); Momijigari (紅葉狩);
Takubê Jôshi (宅兵衛上使)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/15/14
Print Date: 09/15/14
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
NOVEMBER 1914
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門 as
Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga no Gorô (曽我ノ五郎)
Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺引);
Awataguchi Hatsune Hitofushi (粟田口初音一節);
Kokoro no Nazo Chûgi no E-Awase
(意中繼忠義画合); Mukashibanashi Onigashima
(昔噺鬼ヶ島)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/14
Print Date: 10/30/14
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga no Gorô (曽我ノ五郎)
Play: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺引)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/14
Print Date: 12/01/14
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 8, No. 12 (Dec. 1, 1914)
Personal Collection
JANUARY 1915
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Ibaraki (茨木)
Play: Ibaraki (茨木)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/15
Print Date: 01/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
FEBRUARY 1915
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Omiwa (三輪; おみわ)
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Omiwa (三輪; おみわ)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Fukashichi (鱶七)
Plays: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花); Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓); Shinobi Au Haru no Yuki Doke
(忍逢春雪解); Tenchi Kinôgi no E-Awase
(天地金扇面画合)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/02/15
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
APRIL 1915
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
Play: Sukeroku Kuruwa no Momoyogusa
(助六曲輪菊)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo,
Performance Date: 03/31/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Torii (VIII) Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Sakakibara Yasumasa (榊原康正)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
Plays: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録);
Sukeroku Kuruwa no Momoyogusa (助六曲輪菊);
Hyakugumi Shusse Tobi (百組出世鳶);
Jômi no Sechie (上巳の節会)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/15
Print Date: 03/31/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as
Terasaka Kichiemon (寺坂吉右衛門)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助)
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Kobayashi Heihachi (小林平八)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kanzaki Yogorô (神崎与五郎)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Horibe Yasubê (堀部安兵衛)
Other actors not read
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/10/15
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: This appears to be a mitate
print.
JUNE 1915
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Yamanaka Heikurô I (山中平九郎)
Play: Yamanaka Heikurô (山中平九郎)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/07/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Takechi Jûjirô (武智十次郎)
Play: Ehon Taikôki
(絵本大功記) [Taijû (太十)]
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1915
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
JULY 1915
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Yashû no Tomizô (野州の富蔵 (冨増))
Play: Shisen Ryô Koban no Ume-no-Ha
(四千両小判梅葉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
AUGUST 1915
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode Mukashi Hachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔),
Vol. 4
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode Mukashi Hachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/1915?
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Note: Although lacking any information about the
subject or the artist, the print's resemblance to
Koka's print of KikugorôVI as Shinza is
unmistakable. However, this might also be by an
anonymous artist copying the Koka print.
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Landord Chôbei (家主長兵衛)
Plays: Sugata Kurabe Ise Monogatari (競伊勢物語); Migawari Zazen
(身替座禅);
Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 08/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Ki
no Aritsune (紀有常) in
Sugata Kurabe Ise Monogatari (競伊勢物語).
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Landord Chôbei (家主長兵衛)
Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode Mukashi Hachijô (梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 09/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 9, No. 9 (Aug. 1, 1915)
Image courtesy of the University of California
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三) [Tsuyu Kosode Mukashi Hachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 01/01/19
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Collotype
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1919)
Personal Collection
SEPTEMBER 1915
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kamiyu Shinza (髪結新三)
Play: Tsuta Momiji Utsunoya Tôge
(蔦紅葉宇都谷峠)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection
FEBRUARY 1916
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Inaba Kôzô (稲葉幸蔵) and
Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Matsuyama (松山)
Play: Nezumi Komon Harugi no
Shingata (鼠小紋春着新形)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
MARCH 1916
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takega (丈賀)
Plays: Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚); Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子);
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪 暮夜入谷畦道); Dontsuku (どんつく)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/16
Print Date: 03/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門 as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in
Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚).
APRIL 1916
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Fujibei (藤兵衛)
Onoe Kikugoro VI (尾上菊五耶) as Seiji (清次)
Play: Hototogisu Amayo Nomi no Kasa (時鳥雨夜の箕笠)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/16
Print Date: 05/01/16
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 10, No. 5 (May 1, 1916)
Personal Collection
AUGUST 1916
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yazaemon (弥左衛門)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太)
Plays: Igami no Gonta (いがみの權太); Suôotoshi (素襖落); Zôho Tenjinki
(増補天神記);
Tôkaidô Hizakurige (東海道膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/16
Print Date: 08/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸) in Zôho
Tenjinki (増補天神記).
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Yajirobé (弥次郎兵衛)
Morita Kan'ya XIII 守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kitahachi (喜多八)
Play: Tôkaidôchû Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/16
Print Date: 09/01/16
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 10, No. 9 (Aug. 1, 1916)
Personal Collection
SEPTEMBER 1916
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太)
Play: Igami no Gonta ( いがみの權太)
[Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)]
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01//16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: Kikugorô VI performed this role at the
Teikoku Gekijô in Tokyo in August 1916. There
was a production at the Minami-za in Kyoto in
June 1916, but I have not been able to confirm
whether Kikugorô VI was in the cast.
JANUARY 1917
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組の辰五郎)
Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no
Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
Personal Collection
MARCH 1917
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎藏)
Play: Oyayuzuri Gosho Gorozô (親譲御所五郎藏)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/17
Print Date: 05/01/17
Artist: Tanaka Ryô (谷口香嶠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
JULY 1917
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Sashimonoshi Meijin Chôji (指物師名人長治);
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
Plays: Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Tsuki
Kana (時今天下知皐哉); Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人);
Sashimonoshi Meijin Chôji (指物師名人長治);
Utatoku Megumi no Amagoi (歌徳惠雨乞)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Hozuki Books
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五耶)
as Meijin Chôji (名人長治)
Play: Sashimonoshi Meijin
Chôji (指物師名人長治)
Performance Place:
Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 08/01/17
Artist: Natori Shunsen
(名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to
Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 8 (Aug. 1,
1917)
Image courtesy of the
University of California
AUGUST 1917
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sôgorô (宗五郎)
Plays: Saito Toshikazu Katataochi (齋藤利三堅田落); Kyôran
Ikushima (狂亂生嶋);
Sakanaya Sôgorô (魚屋宗五郎); Mukashi Banashi Bunbuku Chagama
(昔噺文福茶釜)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/17
Print Date: 08/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Saitô Kuranosuke Toshizo
(斎藤内蔵之助利三) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Shibazaki (芝崎)
in Saito Toshikazu
Katataochi (齋藤利三堅田落).
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Ikushima (生島)
Play: Kyôran Ikushima (狂亂生嶋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/17
Print Date: 08/01/19
Artist: Tanaka Ryô (谷口香嶠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
SEPTEMBER 1917
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Ibaraki (茨木)
? as ?
Plays: Tsutae Kiku Date no Hyôjô
(傳聞伊達大評定); Ibaraki (茨木); Sakuratsuba
Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘);
Nakazô Kyōran (仲蔵狂乱); Shikan Yakko
(芝翫奴)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/24/17
Print Date: 09/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Hozuki Books
JANUARY 1918
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Dokko no Daroku (独鈷の駄六)
Play: Medashi Doki Aoyagi Suzuri
(芽出時候青柳硯)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/18
Print Date: 01/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #5
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ono Michikaze (小野道風)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Dokko no Daroku (独鈷の駄六)
Play: Medashi Doki Aoyagi Suzuri (芽出時候青柳硯)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/18
Print Date: 02/01/18
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 12, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1918)
Image courtesy of the University of California
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
as Nozarashi Gosuke (野晒悟助)
Play: Oyayuzuri Nozarashi Gosuke
(親譲野晒悟助)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/18
Print Date: 1918?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
FEBRUARY 1918
Onoe Kikugorò VI
(尾上菊五郎) as
Iwafuji (岩藤)
Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no
Nishiki (鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Ichimura-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
MARCH 1918
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺清心)
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
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)
and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Bimyô (微妙) in Ômi Genji Senjin
Yakata (近江源氏先陣館).
MAY 1918
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Chôkichi (or Nagayoshi) (長吉)
Play: Myôkendô Kezuka Yurai
(妙見堂毛塚由来)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: 05/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
JULY 1918
? as ?
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Akagaki Genzo (赤垣源藏)
Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助)
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Yamaoka Kakubei (山岡覚兵衛)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Yasuke (八助)
Plays: On'na Chûshingura (女忠臣蔵); Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記);
Ryûsei (流星);
Wakai Tsuma (若い妻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/18
Print Date: 07/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
AUGUST 1918
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)
Play: Oto ni Kiku Tenjiku Tokubê
(音菊天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 08/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tenjiku Tokubê
(天竺徳兵衛)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsushima
Senta (松島千太)
Plays: Oto ni Kiku Tenjiku Tokubệ (音菊天竺徳兵衛);
Midori no Asa (緑の朝);
Shima Chidori Tsuki no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪);
Kappore (かつぽれ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 08/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura
Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsushima Senta (松島千太)
in Shima Chidori Tsuki no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪).
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Matsushima Senta (松島千太)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Akashi no Shimazô (明石の島蔵)
Plays: Shima Chidori Tsuki no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 09/01/18
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 12, No. 9 (Aug. 1, 1918)
Image courtesy of the University of California
[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao
Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)
Play: Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tenjiku Tokubei (天竺徳兵衛)
Play: Tenjiku Tokubei (天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 09/01/18
Artist: Tanaka Ryô (谷口香嶠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 3, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1918)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
NOVEMBER 1918
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Niki Danjô (仁木弾正)
Play:Ume Momiji Nishiki no Dateori
(梅照葉錦伊達織)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/08/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Niki Danjô (仁木弾正)
Play: Ume Momiji Nishiki
no Dateori
(梅照葉錦伊達 織)
Performance Place:
Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/08/18
Print Date: 12/01/18
Artist: Natori Shunsen
(名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to
Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 12, No. 12 (Dec. 1,
1918)
Personal Collection
JANUARY 1919
Onoe Kikugorò VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Funatsu Kôbê (舟津幸兵衛)
Play: Suitengû Megumi no Fukagawa
(水天宮利生深川)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/19
Print Date: 01/03/19?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
FEBRUARY 1919
[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao
Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
Play: Kumo ni Magau Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花 ; 雲衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1919
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Hôjô Takatoki (北條高時)
Play: Takatoki (髙時)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1919
Print Date: 03/01/19
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 13, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of the University of California
Note: The artist is likely either Natori Shunsen (名取春仙) or
Mori Shunchô (森春鳥). This print is similar to an earlier
1916 print
of Takatoki.
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初 花)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1919
Print Date: 01/01/20
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1920)
Image courtesy of the University of California
Note: It is unclear if this is a new design by Kiyotada IV or a
reproduction of an older design. Kikugorô VI's most recent
performance in this role in Tokyo immediately prior to this
issue would have been at the Ichimura-za in February 1919
in a production entitled Shinobi Au Haruno Yuki Doke
(忍逢春雪解). However, he also performed the role in 1915
and 1916, and Kikugorô V also performed the role in 1900
which Kiyotada could have seen.
MARCH 1919
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Izumiya Seibei (和泉屋清兵衛)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sakan Chôbê (左官長兵郎)
Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Imohori Chôja (芋堀長者);
Ninjô Banashi Bunshichi Mottoi (人情噺文七元結); Mitsu Ningyô (三人形)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Karaki Masaemon
(唐木政右衛門) in Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六).
APRIL 1919
Onoe Kikugorò VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Sonobe Hyôe (園部兵衛)
Play: Shin Usuyuki Monogatari
(新薄雪物語)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Yasuna (保名)
Play: Kosode mo no Kyô (小袖もの狂)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokoyo
Performance Date: 03/30/19
Print Date: 07/01/20
Artist: Tanaka Ryô (谷口香嶠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 5, No. 7 (July 1, 1920)
Image courtesy of Columbia
University
JUNE 1919
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Midaroku ( 弥陀六)
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #1]
Personal Collection
Note: This print is not signed, but
the artist of certain other pochibukuro in
the set has been identified as Fujisawa,
and a signed postcard version exists.
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection
AUGUST 1919
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tomozô (伴蔵)
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Hagiwara Shinzaburo (萩原新三郎)
Plays: Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚); Tachi Nusubito
(太刀盗人);
Kaîdan Botan Dôrô (怪異談牡丹燈籠); Yoshiwara Suzume (吉原雀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/19
Print Date: 08/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Endô Moritô (遠藤盛遠) and
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kinugawa (衣川) in Nachi no Taki
Chikai no Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚).
Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as Omine (おみね0
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tomozô (伴蔵)
Play: Botan Dôrô (牡丹燈籠)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/19
Print Date: 09/01/19
Artist: Mizushima Nihofu (水島爾保布)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
SEPTEMBER 1919
Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
Onoe
Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎)
as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
Play:
Sugawara Denjù
Tenarai
Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑;
菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-
za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print
Date: 09/1919?
Artist:
Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Medium:
woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao
Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection
OCTOBER 1919
? as ?
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Hayase Iori (早瀬伊織)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Tôma Saburôemon (東間三郎右衛門)
Play: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura (敵討天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/19
Print Date: 11/01/19
Artist: Mizushima Nihofu (水島爾保布)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 11 (Nov. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
DECEMBER 1919
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Chôgorô (長五郎)
Play: Setta Naoshi Chôgorô (雪駄直し長五郎)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/29/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
JANUARY 1920
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Dontarô (鈍太郎)
Play: Dontarô (鈍太郎)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/20
Print Date: 02/01/20
Artist: Kikuka Joshi (菊香女史)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 5, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1920)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
MARCH 1920
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Akidarugai Kyûhachi (明樽買久八)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tasuke (多助)
Plays: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Shiobara Tasuke (鹽原多助)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/20
Print Date: 03/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
and Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元) in
Kiyomasa Seichûroku
(清正誠忠録).
AUGUST 1920
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Gorô (曽我五郎)
Play: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono
(夜討曽我狩場曙; 夜討曾我狩場曙)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/20
Print Date: 08/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kyûta (久太)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Jirôko (次郎古)
Plays: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曾我狩場曙); Kayano Sanpei
(茅野三平);
Hototogisu Mizuni Hibikune (時鳥水響音); Aki no Kusa Chûya no
Sakiwake (秋色草晝夜咲分)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/20
Print Date: 08/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Yatou Emonshichi (矢頭右衛門七)
and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kayano Sanpei (茅野三平)
in Kayano Sanpei
(茅野三平).
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Jirôko (次郎古)
Play: Hototogisu Mizuni Hibikune (時鳥水響音)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/20
Print Date: 09/01/20
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 14, No. 9 (Aug. 1, 1920)
Image courtesy of the University of California
