KIOI JISHI
(勢獅子)


See also Aioi Jishi (相生獅子), Echigo Jishi (越後獅子),
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子), Niwaka Jishi (俄獅子), Renjishi (連獅子),
Shakkyô (石橋), and Miscellaneous Lion Dances (獅子舞).
 


OCTOBER 1906

                 
 
Plays: Kawanakajima Kassen (川中島合戦); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Shinonome (東雲); Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Kioi Jishi Matsuri Nigiwai (勢獅子祭賑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/10/06
Print Date: 10/10/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




MAY 1909

                 
 
Play: Hanashôbu Keian Jikki (花菖蒲慶安実記); Horikawa (堀川); Narita Risei Homare no Yûten
(成田利生誉祐天); Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/08/09
Print Date: 05/09/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 





MAY 1915

                   

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/10/1915
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Also on the bill was Kioi Jishi (勢獅子).
 
 
 
 



                 
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Kioishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




MARCH 1917

                 
 
Plays: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民傳); Bôshibari (棒しばり); Oyayuzuri Gosho Gorozô
(親譲御所五郎藏); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/17
Print Date: 03/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




OCTOBER 1920



                 
 
Plays: Ezo no Yoshitsune (蝦夷の義經); Biwa no Nadokoro Yuki no Kagekiyo (琵琶名所月景清);
Gengobê Oman Imayô Satsuma Uta (源五兵衛おまん今様薩摩歌); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/02/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




JANUARY 1925


Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Tobizu Tsurukichi ( 鳶頭鶴吉)

Play: Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Asakusa Kôen
Kan'non Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/31/24
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#A]
Personal Collection
 
Note: Ennocuki II also performed
this role in a special performance
at the Kokugikan (国技館)  in
December 1924.   It is  possible
that this print reflects that
performance. 
 
 
 
     

 
 

UNKNOWN DATE


Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Tobizu Kamekichi (鳶頭亀吉) or
Tobizu Tsurukichi (鳶頭政吉)

Play: Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1918-1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: Between 1918 and 1925, Ennosuke II performed
in this play four times in Tokyo: at the Kabuki-za in
May 1918, the Shintomi-za in October 1920, a special
performance  at the Kokuritsu Gekijô in December
1924, and the Kan'non Gekijô in January 1925.  He
and an other actor would alternate playing the  roles
of Kamekichi and Tsurukichi.