KOKKEI SANNIN KATAWA
(滑稽三人片輪)

aka SANNIN KATAWA (三人片輪)

                 
 
Plays: Satomi Hakkenden (里見八犬伝); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪); Shimizu Ikakku (清水一角);
Shirôto Geshukuya (素人下宿屋)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/10
Print Date: 08/09/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo
(犬山道節忠友) in Satomi Hakkenden (里見八犬伝) and a second as yet unidentified actor.
 

               
[August Kyôgen at the Kabuki-za]
Kabukiza no Hachigatsu Kyôgen (歌舞伎座の八月狂言)

Play:
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/10
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 123 (Sept. 1, 1910)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the August bill were Nansô Satomi
Hakkenden (南総里見八犬伝); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Shimizu Ikkaku (清水一角); and Shirôtogeshukuya
(素人下宿屋).

               
[August Kyôgen at the Kabuki-za]
Kabukiza no Hachigatsu Kyôgen (歌舞伎座の八月狂言)

Play:
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/10
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 123 (Sept. 1, 1910)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the August bill were Nansô Satomi
Hakkenden (南総里見八犬伝); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Shimizu Ikkaku (清水一角); and Shirôtogeshukuya
(素人下宿屋).
 
 

                 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
the Mute Jirosuke (唖次郎助)

Play: Kokkei Sannin Katawa (滑稽三人片輪)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Note: Although a bromide exists from the Ichimura-za production which
labels Mitsugorô VII as the mute, in reality he played a character
pretending to be a blind man who, when drunk, pretends to be the mute.
Mitsugorô VII also was in a March 1920 production of Sannin
Katawa (三人片輪) at the Teikoku Gekijô, but appears to have played
the character pretending to be a cripple who, when drunk, pretends to be
the blind man.
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪); Shiobara Tasuke (鹽原多助)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/20
Print Date: 03/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) and
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元) in Kiyomasa Seichûroku
(清正誠忠録); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Akidarugai Kyûhachi (明樽買久八) and Onoe
Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tasuke (多助) in Shiobara Tasuke (鹽原多助).
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Hiji Tarosuke (臂太郎助 )
 
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Omaki (おまき)
 
Plays: Azuchi no Haru (安土の春); Shinjû Naniwa no Harusame (心中浪華春雨); Sannin Katawa
(三人片輪); Mukashi Utsushi Nezumi Komon (昔摸鼠小紋); Sato no Hanatsui no Amigasa ( 廓花対編笠)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/26
Print Date: 03/01/26
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Tabibito Shirobee (旅人四郎兵衛)
and  Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長) in Azuchi no Haru (安土の春);  and 
Ichimura Kamezo III (市村亀蔵; 市村龜蔵) as Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三) and  Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵)
as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門) in Sato no Hanatsui no Amigasa (廓花対編笠).
 
 

Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義經千本櫻); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Hachiman Matsuri Yomiya no Nigiwai (八幡祭小望月賑)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/02/27
Print Date: 07/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義經千本櫻); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Hachiman Matsuri Yomiya no Nigiwai (八幡祭小望月賑)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/02/27
Print Date: 07/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

                    
Bunraku
   
Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪); Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引; Akegarasu Yuki no Akebono (明烏六花曙)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/14/41
Print Date: 12/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library