Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]  Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 09/15/97
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#15]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh

 

                
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]  Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 03/1925
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [One Hundred Nô Plays]
Nôgaku Hyakuban (能楽百番) [#65-66]
*Personal Collection


 

                
 Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit] 
Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)
 

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 07/05/1925
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures] Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 2, #35
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 
 

                   
Myôjin (明神)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 1942
Artyist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Yuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 雪の巻)
Image courtesy of Kosho
Ajia-gôn

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Nagauta (長唄)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Hanayagi Jusuke II (花柳寿輔; 花柳壽輔) as Myôjin (明神)

Play:  Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shin yakusha-e [New Actor Prictures] (新役者絵)
Personal Collection

Note: Dance Master Jusuke II was the choreographer for the
original performance in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in September 1939. 
The print may depict Jusuke II's performance at some Noh
theatre, as I can find no record of him performing it in a Kabuki
theatre.
 
 
 

                 
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]  Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 06/1954
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: Noh Play Explanation and Stories Series 2

 
 
 
 
 

                   
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]
Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: c. 1950s?
Artist: Hanabusa Hideki (花房英樹)
Series: [Collection of Noh Plays]
Noh Hanga-shû (能版画集)
 
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        Ichikawa Udanji II (市川右団次) as
        Inari Myōjin (稲荷明神)

        Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

                                    
                    Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]
                    Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
                    Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)
 

                    Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
                    Print Date: ?
                    Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
                    Series: ?
                    Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum
                    of New York
 
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Iwatesan (岩手山); Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎蔵); Kokaji (小鍛冶); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/11
Print Date: 05/12/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum