YOWA NASAKE UKINA NO YOKOGUSHI
(與話情浮名横櫛)

aka KIRARE YOSA (切られ与三)
aka OTOMI TO YOSABURÔ (お富と与三郎)

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
Otowa no Rei (おとはの霊) and
Horiguchi Hideo (堀口英雄)

Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/02
Print Date: 12/1901
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre
of Japan
    
Note: The depiction of Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII (市川団十郎 市川團十郎) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛) in the upper right
panel is by Mongen Kunigen (?)
(門人国玄).
 
 
 
 

                 
 
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
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)


Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1915
Print Date:  06/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Mukôkizu Yosaburô ((向疵与三郎)
[Kirare Yosa (切られ与三)]

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1915
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place:  Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1915
Print Date: 03/02/15
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #5]
Personal Collection
 
 
 

            
            Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as  
            Mukôkizu Yosaburô ((向疵与三郎)
            [Kirare Yosa (切られ与三)]

            Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
            (与話情浮名横櫛)
            Performance Place:  Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/1915
            Print Date: 03/02/15
            Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
           Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #5]
            Personal Collection
 
 

                   

Plays: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太閤記); Adesugata
On'namaiginu (艶姿女舞衣); Ninin Bakama (二人袴);
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛);
Gion no Yo Zakura (祇園の夜櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/15
Print Date: 04/02/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki  cover
Personal Collection
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/28/16
Print Date: 12/18/16
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #1]
*Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/28/16
Print Date: 12/18/16
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #1]
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/28/16
Print Date: 12/18/16
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #1]
*Personal Collection

[Fujisawa Postcard Set #1] Wrapper

Print Date: 12/18/16
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸)  as
Otomi (お富)

Play: Yowa Nasake Uukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/28/16
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
 
 
 
  

                       
                        Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

                        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
                        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,  Tokyo
                        Performance Date: 09/28/16
                        Print Date: 1917
                        Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
                        *Image courtesy of the Ringling Museum of Art

                        Note: Given the similarity to the earlier print Toyonari made of Matsusuke IV
                        in this role, it is possible that it depicts Matsusuke IV in his performance at
                        the Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo, in April 1915.
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門;
市村卯左衛門)
as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
      
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/28/16
Print Date: 1916?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛) and similar plays   
Print Date: 02/18/18
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

Note: Published in the novel Edo Jôchô to no
Aku  no Sanbi (江戸情調との悪の讚美) by 
Takasu Baikei (高須 梅渓).
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆);
Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi (彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱); Jôruri Monogatari
(浄瑠璃物語); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/03/20
Print Date: 12/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani  Library
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Kaikai no Jyokotoba (開會の序詞); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略絵巻);
Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺); Takatoki (高時); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛); Ehon Taikôki  (繪本太閤記); Modoribashi (戻橋); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/28-30/21
Print Date: 12/1921?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (おとみ)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛) 
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
1927.  It is possible that this print reflects Baikô VI's
performance in that production.

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
1927.  It is possible that this print reflects Uzaemon XV's
performance in that production.

               
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
1927.  It is possible that this print reflects Matsusuke IV's
performance in that production.  This print closely resembles
one made by Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光) around the same time. 
One wonders if they might be the same artist or if Shikô was a
pseudonym adopted by a publisher who knocked off
Hanayama's design.
 
 
 

Envelope design for Tôsei Meiyû
Omokage Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙)
#1

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
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) #1
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

       
        Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
        Otomi (おとみ)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        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) #1
        Personal Collection

       
        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
        Izutsuya Tazaemon (井筒屋太左衛門)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        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) #1
        Personal Collection

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
    `   Series: [Images of Famous Actors
        of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
        Zoshi (當世名優面影双紙) #1
        Personal Collection

       

       
        Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
        as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        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) #1
        Personal Collection

       

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Otomi (おとみ)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

       
        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
        Izutsuya Tazaemon (井筒屋太左衛門)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
    `   Personal Collection

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
    `   Personal Collection

       

       
        Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
        as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
    `   Personal Collection 
 
 

       

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Although Matsusuke IV performed
this role multiple times during his career,
he only performend the role in Tokyo
twice during the 1920s, the period when
Shikô was actively making prints.  It is
possible that this print reflects Matsusuke
IV's subsequent performance at the
Teikoku Geikijô in June 1927.
 
 
 
 
  

               
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Although Matsusuke IV performed this role multiple
times during his career, he only performend the role in Tokyo
twice during the 1920s, the period when Shikô was actively
making prints.  It is possible that this print reflects Matsusuke
IV's subsequent performance at the Teikoku Geikijô in June
1927.  This print closely resembles one made by Miyake
Hanayama (三宅花山) around the same time.  One wonders if
they might be the same artist or if Shikô was a pseudonym
adopted by a publisher who knocked off Hanayama's design.
 
 
 

Operas: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Kigan V (市川鬼丸) as
Otomi (お富; おとみ)

Play:  Genjidana (源氏店), Act 3 of  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛; 與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/27
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#22)
*Personal Collection

Note: Kigan V first portrayed Otomi in Tokyo at the Miyato-
za in July 1908.  Depending on the precise publication date
of this print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
after Kigan V's June 1916 performance at the Miyato-za
or June 1921 performance at the Kanda Gekijô.
 
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と与三郎), a version of 
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1927
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#8)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Matsusuke IV died on September 5,
1928 at age 86.  He first played the role of Kômori Yasu
in Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in September 1892.  Although Matsusuke
IV's last Tokyo appearance in this role was in June 1927,it
is possible that Gakô based this print on one of
Matsusuke IV's prior performances in that play or in
"Kirare Otomi."
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays:  Sono Toki  no Akôjyô (其時の赤穂城); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/01/30
Print Date: 07/1930?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Sono Toki  no Akôjyô (其時の赤穂城); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/01/30
Print Date: 07/1930?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Kômori Yasu Gorô (蝙蝠安五郎)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1955
Print Date: 11/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery
 
 

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi of Genyadana (玄治店のお富)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1955
Print Date: 1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Yosaburô of Genyadana (玄治店の与三郎)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1955
Print Date: 01/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery

Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
 
Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Date: 1955
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prints of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 3
 
 

                 
Nakamura Uzaemon XV (中村歌右衛門) as Kirare Yosa (切られ与三)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二 ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
  
 
 

                 
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
 
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛)
Print Date: 1984
Artist: Takahashi Kin'ya (高橋欣也)
Medium: woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵) as
Mekake Otomi (妾お富)

Play: Genjidana (源氏店) , Act III of
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/90
Print Date: 03/1990
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VIII (Design 1)]
Daihachi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第七期大首絵シリーズの1)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Play: Genjidana (源氏店) , Act III of
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/90
Print Date: 05/1990
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VIII (Design 2)]
Daihachi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 2
(第七期大首絵シリーズの2)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XV (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵) as Otomi (お富)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 8-21, 2002
Print Date: 2002
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
(御存鈴ヶ森), Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛), Sushiya (すし屋) [Act III, Scene III of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)] and Futa Omote
Mizu ni Terutsuki (双面水照月).  It starred Kataoka Nizaemon
XV (片岡仁左衛門), Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵), Bandô
Takesaburô V (坂東竹三郎), Kataoka Takatarô (片岡孝太郎),
Kataoka Ainosuke VI (片岡愛之助), Bandô Kichiya II (坂東吉弥;
坂東吉彌), Bandô Yajûrô, and Sawamura Sônosuke III
(沢村宗之助;  澤村宗之助)..
 
 

                 
[Kirare] Yosaburô ([切られ]与三郎)
 
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi ( 與話情浮名横櫛}
Print Date: [2007?]
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. ?)
Image courtesy of Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art

       
        ? as Otomi (おとみ)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

       
        ? as Kirare Yosaburô
        (切られ与三郎)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

       
        ? as Kirare Yosaburô
        (切られ与三郎)
     
        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
 
       
 
 
 
  .

                         
        Otomi (お富)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hirezaki Eihô (鰭崎英朋)
        Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
        Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

? as Yosaburô (与三郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: If the actor is Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門), he performed this role in Tokyo
at the Kabuki-za in October 1916 and December
1920, at the Shintomi-za in February 1923, and
at the Teikoku Gekijô in April 1925.

? as Kômori Yasu Gorô (蝙蝠安五郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?

Note: If the actor is Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助),
he performed this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô
in April 1915, at the Kabuki-za in October 1916 and
December 1920, and at the Teikoku Gekijô in April
1925.  He also played this character in Kirare Otomi
(切られお富; きられお富) at the Teikoku Gekijô in
February 1918.

                 
Kataoka Takao (片岡 孝夫) as
Yosaburo (与三郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: Takao performed this role at the Kabuki-za in March
1982 and March 1986, and at the Shinbashi Enbujô in June
1991.
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi  (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)  as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)  as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi  (鏡獅子) and similar plays

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)

Title:  Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
 

                   
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛; 与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)?

Note: Matsusuke IV died on September 5, 1928 at
age 86.    He first played the role of Kômori Yasu
in Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-za in September 1892.  Although
Matsusuke IV's last Tokyo appearance in this role
was in a June 1927 production of Otomi to
Yosaburô (お富と与三郎) at the Teikoku Gekijô 
it is possible that Shunsen based this print on one
of Matsusuke IV's prior performances in those
plays or in "Kirare Otomi."    Although purporting
to be hanga genga in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen
catalogs, it appears to be a finished painting and I
have not found a hand-colored keyblock print for
this design.

[Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
[Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
(直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

Print Date: c. 1920s
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)

Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
by Shikô in the 1920s.  See, for example, Shikô's
1924 print of Oschichi.
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi (お富)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI performed this role in Tokyo
eleven times between July 1906 and February
1938.  The design is similar to a production
photograph from the June 1927 production at
the Teikoku Gekijô.  Based on a companion
print, it is possible that this represents Baikô
VI's performance at the Kabuki-za in
December 1920.

   
    Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
    Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
    Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
    Print Date: ?
    Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    senshafuda
    Series: 盛會御禮  
    Personal Collection

    Note: It is likely that the actor
    depicted is Onoe Matsusuke
    IV (尾上松助).
 

            
            Ichimura Uzaemon XV
            (市村羽左衛門) as
            Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

            Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
            Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
 
            Note: Uzaemon XV first per-
            formed this role in Tokyo at the
            Ichimura-za in July 1906. His
            final performance in Tokyo
            was at the Kabuki-za in April
            1943.           

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Matsusuke IV first
performed this role in Yowa
Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
September 1892.  His last
Tokyo appearance in this role
was in a June 1927 production
of Otomi to Yosaburô
(お富と与三郎) at the Teikoku
Gekijô. 

Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
 
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Matsusuke IV performed this
role in Tokyo at least four times between
1916 and 1927.
 
 
  
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI performed this role in
Tokyo at least four times between 1916
and 1927.

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        senshafuda
        Personal Collection

        Note:  Uzaemon XV performed this role
        in Tokyo at least four times between
        1916 and 1927.

       
        Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
        as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
   
       Note: This was a signature role
        performed many times by
        Matsusuke IV.  It may or may not
        be by Sadanobu III.