TORII KIYOTADA (鳥居清忠)

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

Undated 

                   
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Play: Ya-no-ne (矢の根)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Otokonosuke (男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery

                   
Ibaraki Dôji (茨木童子) and
Watanabe no Tsuna (渡邊綱)

Play: Ibaraki (茨木)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery
 
 
 
  

                 
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Date: ?
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts

                 
[Spirit of the Earth Spider] Tsuchi Gumo (土蜘の精)

Play: Tsuchi Gumo (土蜘)
Print Date: ?
Series: [Collection of Ten New and Old Plays]
Shinko Engeki Jûsshu (新古演劇十種の内)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print is also listed as part of the Gekikadô
Zuihitsuin series in the 1938-1940 section.  The
inscription, however, suggests that it belongs to a
different print series.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛物)

Play: Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi
(隅田春妓女容性)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: A related design was produced
in the 1938-1939 time period.

                 
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: ?
Series: [Models of Kabuki Actors] Haiyû Kagami (俳優鑑)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: A damaged copy is in the Karl collection.

                 
Mikamiyama (三上山 )
Demon of Mount Atago (disguised as Sayuri (小百合))

Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date:  ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Shinko Engeki Jûsshu no Uchi (新古演劇十種の内)]
 
 
 
  

 

                   
Dance Performance Program

Dances: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
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Dance Performance Program

Dances: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery

Note: The seller ascribed the print to Kiyotada I, yet gave a
publication date of circa 1900.  Clearly, either the authorship or
the date is in error.
 
 
 
  
 
 

                 
Actor as Sekimori Sekibê (関守関兵衛)

Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪關扉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of the British Museum

                 
Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三) and
Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門)

Play: Fuwa (不破)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed card stock
Personal Collection

Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)

Play: Fuwa (不破)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
 

           
            Fuwa Banzaemon
            (不破伴左衛門)

            Play: Fuwa (不破)
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
            Personal Collection
 

                             
            [Lion Dancer] Shishimai (越後獅子)

            Play: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 

Play: ?
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô
Performance Date:?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: The seller suggested that the date of
performance might be April 1929, but I have not
been able to independently verify that fact.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)
Genroku Shibaraku (元禄暫)
 
Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)
 
Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Watônai (和藤内)
 
Play:  Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 

                   
? as ?
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
Moronô (師直)
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as ?
 
? as ?
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za Shigezo
Performance Date:  ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Senoo Jûrô (瀬尾十郎)
 
Nakamura *** as
Saito Sanemori (斎藤実盛)
     
Play: Genpei Nunobiki no Taki
(源平布引瀧)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: ? 
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: For similar images, see the March
1921 sujigaki cover for the Teikoku Gekijô.