KOI BIKYAKU YAMATO ÔRAI
(恋飛脚大和往来)

Koi no Hikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
aka Koi no Tayori Yamato Ôrai (*****)
aka Koi no Tayori Yamato Ôrai (*****)
aka Keisei Koi no Hikyaku (*****)
aka Meido no Hikyaku (冥途の飛脚)
aka Umegawa Chûbê (梅川忠兵衛)

                 
Nakayama Tomisaburo I (中山富三郎) as Umegawa (梅川) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV (松本幸四郎) as Magoemon ( 孫右衛門)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai ((恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1794
Print Date: 05/2020
Artists: Paul Binnie and Tôshûsai Sharaku (東洲斎写楽)
Print Title: Kabukichô (歌舞伎町)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com

Note: This print incorporates figures from recarved Tôshûsai Sharaku (東洲斎 写楽) blocks.

                 
Nakayama Tomisaburo I (中山富三郎) as Umegawa (梅川) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV (松本幸四郎) as Magoemon ( 孫右衛門)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai ((恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1794
Print Date: 2020
Artist: Tôshûsai Sharaku (東洲斎写楽)
Personal Copy

Note: This print was printed by Binnie from recarved Tôshûsai Sharaku
(東洲斎 写楽) blocks that the artist had acquired .  The design was
incorporated into the artist's print Kabukichô (歌舞伎町).  This print was
printed as close as possible in what is believed to have been the original
unfaded color scheme of the Sharaku print.  That color scheme was
intentionally altered for theKabukichô print to give the figures a more
ghostly pallor.
 
 
 
 

                 
Plays:  Chûkô Ume no Kanazawa (忠孝梅金沢); Ôiso Wada no Sakamori (大磯和田宴);
Sanzen Ryô Haru no Kurairi (三千両初春蔵入); Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/13/04
Print Date: 01/13/1904
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Hiyoku no Tsuru Senzai Soga (比翼鶴千歳曽我); Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono 
(大杯觴酒戦強者); Shinkyoku Mochizuki (新曲望月); Kitsune Shizuka Geshôkagami  (狐静化粧鏡);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/07
Print Date: 05/07/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Play: Kyôgashima Musume no Ikenie (経島娘生贄); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sanzen Ryô Omoni no Shûku Tsugi (三千兩重荷宿継); Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来);
Shinobi Yoru Koi no Kusemono (忍夜恋曲者)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/09
Print Date: 10/03/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
[Hit Play at the Shintomi-za]
Shintomi-za Atari Kyôgen (新富座当り狂言)
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Personal Collection

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Original Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).

               
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅若) as
Magoemon (孫右衛門)

Play: Ninokuchi-mura (新口村), Act II of
Koi no Hikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/05/14
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#3)
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.  Baigyoku II  died on June 8, 1921 at
age 81.
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 1914?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

 
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbei (亀屋忠兵衛)                   

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 11/1914?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風) (assumed)
Personal Collection

Note: This unsigned fan print has been stylistically attributed to
Seifû by the webmaster.  Ganjirô I also performed the same role
in Fuin Giri (封印切), Act I of Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来) at the Minami-za in Kyoto in December 1914. 
However, during the time period that Seifû is known to have
designed prints, he also performed the role at the Naniwa-za in
Osaka in June 1916 and again in February 1919, at the Minami-
za in Kyoto in December 1921, at the Misono-za in Nagoya in
February 1924, at the Naka-za in Osaka in January 1925, at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1926, and at the Naka-za in
Osaka in March 1928, among other appearances.  I cannot
rule out the possibility that this fan print reflects one of those
other performances.
 
 
 
 

    
Reverse side of fan, presumably also by Seifû
 
Personal Collection


 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Umekawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai  (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Fukusuke IV performed this role in the
"Fûin Giri" scene at the Naniwa-za in Osaka
 in June 1916 opposite Nakamura Ganjirô I.
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai  (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role in the "Fûin
Giri" scene at the Naniwa-za in Osaka in June
1916 opposite Nakamura Fukusuke IV

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Oen (おえん; お娟)

Play:  Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/17
Print Date: 06/15/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 1
(歌舞伎踊姿 第ー編) #9
Personal Collection

Jitsukawa Enjaku II
(実川延若; 實川延若) as
Kameya Chûbê (亀屋忠兵衛)

Play:  Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/17
Print Date: 06/15/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 1
(歌舞伎踊姿 第ー編) #9
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Shibajaku IV ( 中村芝雀) as
Umegawa (梅川)

Play:  Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/17
Print Date: 06/15/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 1
(歌舞伎踊姿 第ー編) #9
Personal Collection

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Keisei Umegawa (傾城梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助); Aikokusha (愛國者); Banchô Sarayashiki (番町皿屋敷);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (戀飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kabuto no Hoshikage (兜の星影); Ikeru Katami (生ける形見); Hatena (？);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (戀飛脚大和往来); Yûsuzumi Kamo no Kawakaze (夕涼鴨川風)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/19
Print Date: 07/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
 
Play: Umegawa Chûbê (梅川忠兵衛)
Print Date: 05/01/1921
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock print in Kokusui (國粹),
Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1921)
 
 
 
 

                 
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) and
Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)?
Print Date:  06/01/1921
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock print in Kokusui ( 國粹)
(June 1920)
 
 
 
 

Umegawa (傾城梅川)

Play: Meido no Hikyaku (冥途の飛脚)
Print Date: c. 1922-1923
Artist: Kitano Tsunetomi (北野恒富)
Series: Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu Furoku Mokuhan
(大近松全集 付録木版)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
 
 

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
        Umegawa (梅川)
 
        Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来) 
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 10/31//26
        Publication Date: 1927
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Machine printed lithograph

                   
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Umegawa (梅川)
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as Chûbei (忠兵衛)

Play:  Umegawa Chûbei (梅川忠兵衛), a common title for
a version of Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
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) (#23)
Personal Collection

Note: I have not found a specific performance with these
two actors in these roles.  As a consequence, it is possible
that whatever play depicted was performed before 1927.
 
 
 
 

Portfolio Cover
 
Umegawa (傾城梅川)
 
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
 
Play: Meido no Hikyaku (冥途の飛脚)
[Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)]
Date: 1954
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prings of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 2
 
 
 

Umegawa (傾城梅川)
 
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
 
Play: Meido no Hikyaku (冥途の飛脚)
[Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)]
Date: 1954
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prings of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 2
 

                   
[Play on Sharaku: Traveling] 
Gisaku Sharaku Michiyuki  (戯似 Sharaku 道行)

Play: Tsuki no Mayu Koi no Saichu (月眉恋最中) scene of
Yomono Nishiki Kokyono Tabiji (四方錦故郷旅路)
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hatsuyama Shigure (初山滋)
Personal Collection (#3/15)
 
Note: This appears to depict the famous Ninokuchi Mura traveling scene
with Chûbei and Umegawa.  The play Sharaku based his print on is all
but forgotten today, but the scene remains a staple of kabuki plays such
as Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来).  Although the print is usually
referred to as Sharaku: Elopement, "elopement" would appear to be an
improper reading of "michiyuki" in the context of this play.
 
 
 

                   
[Leaving Osaka]
Keisei Umegawa (傾城梅川) and
 Kameya Chūbei (亀屋忠兵衛)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Print Date: 1981
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of the Asian Collection Internet Auction
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbê (亀屋忠兵衛)

Play: Ninokuchi-mura (新口村), Act II of
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1982
Print Date: 11/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 11)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 11
(第三期大首絵シリーズの11)
Personal Collection (#33/36)
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Senjaku II (中村扇雀) as
Keisei Umegawa (傾城梅川)

Play: Ninokuchi-mura (新口村), Act II of
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1982
Print Date: 11/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 12)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 12
(第三期大首絵シリーズの12)
Personal Collection (#3/27)

                   
Kataoka Gadô XIII (片岡我童) as
Izutsuya Oen (井筒屋おえん)

Play: Fûin Giri (封印切), Act I of
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/86
Print Date: 05/1986
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, Six Busts of Female Role Specialists]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Onnagata Ôkubi Roku Sugata
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・女形大首六姿)
Personal Collection (#11/54)
 
 
 
 

                   
Umegawa (梅川) and Kameya Chûbē
(亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Print Date: 1987
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Keisei Umegawa (傾城梅川)

Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chūbei (亀屋忠兵衛)

Play: Ninokuchi-mura (新口村), Act II of
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  05/1997- 01/1998
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Utaemon to Ganjirô - Ninokuchi mura
(歌右衛門 と鴈治郎 - 新口村)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#3/100)

Note:  This print would seem to have been based on a special
gala performance or else is an imagined composite design. 
There is otherwise no known regular performance that featured
both Utaemon VI and Ganjirô III in these roles at the same time.
Utaemon VI's last regular performance as Umegawa that I could
find was at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in January 1985.  Ganjirô III,
however, performed the role of Chūbei during Binnie's time in
Japan in a production at the Kabuki-za in November 1994
(opposite Nakamura Matsue V).
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
 
Note: Kaisha I performed this role at
the Naka-za, Osaka, in January 1925.
However, there is no guarantee that
this print reflects that particular
performance.

        

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Kameya Chûbē
        (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
     
        Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
        (恋飛脚大和往来)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Image courtesy of Serge
        Astieres
 
        Note: Ganjirô I performed
        this role in Toyko at the Kabuki-
        za in October 1909, at the
        Shintomi-za in May 1915, and
        at the Kabuki-za in November
        1926 and November 1931.
 
 
 
 

       
        Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
        Umekawa (梅川)

        Play:  Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
        (恋飛脚大和往来)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
        
        Note: Kaisha I performed this role at
        the Naka-za, Osaka, in January 1925.
        However, there is no guarantee that
        this print reflects that particular
        performance.
 
 
 

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
        Chûbei (忠兵衛)

        Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
        (恋飛脚大和往来)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

                               
        Keisei Umegawa (傾城梅川) and
        Kameya Chûbei (亀屋忠兵衛)

        Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
        (恋飛脚大和往来)
        Date: ?
        Artist: Hiratsuka Akio (平塚昭夫)
        Medium: Ex Libris stencil print
        Courtesy of the National Museum of
        Taiwan Literature

.

Jitsukawa Enjaku II 
(実川延若; 實川延若)
as Kameya Chûbê
(亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
 
Play:  Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note:  Enjaku II performed this role
four times in Tokyo between June 1917
and January 1934.

? as Kameya Chûbê
(亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
 
Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: 盛會御禮 
Personal Collection
 

                                       
                    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)
 
 
 

                 
Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Meido no Hikyaku (冥途の飛脚)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?
 
Note:  In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."