KIRI HITOHA
(桐一葉)

                
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Yodogimi (淀君)
 
Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当; 片岡我當) as Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元)
 
Plays: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉); Nihon Kachidoki (日本勝利歌)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/27/04
Print Date: 03/05/1904
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Title: Jidai Bijin Fûzoku Sugoroku (時代 美人 風俗 双六) 
Print Date:  01/1913
Artist: Kaburagi Kiyokata (鏑木清方)
Publication: Appendix to Bungei Kurabu (文芸倶楽部)
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
 
Note: Plays depicted include Fuji Musume (藤娘), Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉),
and some Oshichi-mono. 
 
 
 

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: 10/06/17?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #2
Personal Collection

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: 03/30/17?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: While the role is not decipherable,
the image suggests that it is that of
Yodogimi.

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: ?   
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #3]
Personal Collection
 
Note: While the role is not decipherable,
the image suggests that it is that of
Yodogimi.
 

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上梅幸) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
Personal Collection
 
Note: While the role is not decipherable, the image
suggests that it is that of Yodogimi.

                 
 
Plays: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉); Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Sakura (助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/17
Print Date: 04/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Onna Umako (女馬子)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Personal Collection

Note: This design was also subsequently
used in lithographic form as a postcard.

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
        Onna Umako (女馬子)

        Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
        Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/03/21
        Print Date: 1921?
        Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
        Personal Collection
        Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
    `   Personal Collection

       

L: Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as
Yatsuhashi  (八ツ橋)
R: Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as Onna Umako (女馬子)
 
Play: L: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame
(籠釣瓶花街酔醒);
R: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: L: ?;
R: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: L: ?; R: 04/03/21
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: I have found records of Shôchô
II performing the role of Yatsuhashi at
the Meija-za in May 1928, at the
Kabuki-za in February 1932 and
December 1934, and at the Tokyo
Gekijô in May 1937, but these seem
to be too late in time given some
of the other performance dates for
other senshafuda in this series.
 
 
   

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kimura Shigenari (木村重成)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection
 
Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role opposite Uzaemon XV three times
at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1935, April 1939, and October 1941. 
One or more of those productions likely toured Osaka around those times.
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Jukai III (市川寿海; 市川壽海) as
Kimura Nagato-no-Kami (木村長門守)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/1951
Print Date: 05/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum