Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)/Torii VII/Kiyotada IV/Torii Tadakiyo (鳥居忠清)

TORII KIYOTADA (鳥居清忠)

aka Torii VII; Kiyotada IV; Torii Tadakiyo (鳥居忠清)

1911

MARCH

Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Plays at
the Initial Opening of the Imperial Theater:
Yoritomo (頼朝, Igagoe (伊賀越), and Hagoromo (羽衣).

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/04/11
Print Date: 03/04/11
Medium: Woodblock printed playbill
Image courtesy of the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints

Note: The center panel is by Kiyotada IV. The artist for the other
two panels are unread.

JUNE

Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 06/18/11
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e published in
Gendai Gashû (現代畫集) (June 18, 1911)
Personal Collection

SEPTEMBER

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/11/1911
Print Date: 09/1911?
Medium: Woodblock printed playbill
Image courtesy of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts

Note: On the bill were Yumedono (夢殿), Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji
(源平魁躑躅), and [A Change of Heart] Shin Kiiten (心機一転).

NOVEMBER

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôkanoko Musume Dōjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/03/1911
Print Date: 11/1911?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

DECEMBER

Print Date: 12/28/11, Appendix to Engei Gahô Vol. 6
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Danzô VII (市川団蔵; 市川團蔵)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)

        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
        Chobei (長兵衛)

        Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
        (御存鈴ヶ森)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: 012/28/11
        Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)

        Note: Since Kôshirô VII assumed that
          name in November 1911, it would appear
          that Torii Kiyotada is depicting him a
         performance under an earlier name.