KOKUSEN'YA GASSEN
(国性爺合戦)
aka KOKUSEN'YA GOJITSU
GASSEN (国性爺後日合戦)
NOVEMBER 1900
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Goshôgun Kanki (伍将軍甘輝)
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Watônai (和藤内)
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Kinshôjo (錦生女)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (国性爺合戦)
Performance Place/: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/17/1900
Print Date: 11/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
MARCH 1910
Plays: Tengajaya (天下茶屋); Kokusen'ya Gassen (国姓爺合戦); Rokkasen (六歌仙)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/10
Print Date: 03/02/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
NOVEMBER 1911
Plays: Kitasaga Yami Idomu (北嵯峨闇挑); Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪);
Kokusen'ya Gojitsu Gassen (国性爺後日合戦); Tôyama Zakura Tenpô Nikki
(遠山桜天保日記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/11
Print Date: 11/21/1911
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
JANUARY 1918
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen
(国性爺合戦)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/04/18
Print Date: 05/25/18
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata Dainihen
Series 2 (歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #8
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Ichimura
Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Watônai
(和藤内
Play:
Kokusen'ya Gassen (国性爺合戦)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/04/18
Print Date: 01/1918?
Series:
Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代
栄劇彩) #4
Artist:
Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
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NOVEMBER 1920
Plays: Azuma Gonin Otoko (吾妻五人男); Kinnô Ibun (勤王遺聞); Kokusen'ya
Gassen (國性爺合戦);
Adesugata On'namaiginu (艶姿女舞衣); Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (璃壽靭猿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
c. 1922-1923
Kinshôjo (錦祥女)
Play: Kokusen’ya Gassen (国性爺合戦; 國性爺合戦)
Date: c. 1922-1923
Artist: Nishiyama Suishô (西山翠嶂)
Series: Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu Furoku Mokuhan
(大近松全集 付録木版)
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c. 1925-1926
Watônaia (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
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Kanki (甘輝)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
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MAY 1929
One Lined Make-up #1 (一本隈)
Role: Watônai (和藤内); Umeômaru (梅王丸)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦); Ga no Iwai,
Act III, Scene 2 of Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 05/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 49
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c. 1932-1933
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (国性爺合戦)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Gidayû Bushi (義太夫節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
1938
? as Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1938
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
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1940
Watônai no Zu (和藤内ノ図)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: 1940
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Jûhachiban (隈取十八番)
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Note: This was evidently the Ichikawa style one-line
makeup - Ichikawa Ryû Ippon Kuma (市川流一本隈).
1941
? as Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (国性爺合戦)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
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Watônai in the Battles of Coxinga
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Torii (VIII) Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Series: Chikamatsu Juni-kagatsu
[Twelve Months of Chikamatsu] (近松十二月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
JANUARY 1943
Wakashu Manzai (若衆萬歳)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: 01/01/43
Artist: Torii (VIII) Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Woodblock printed magazine cover
Publication: [Japanese Dance]
Nihon Buyô (⽇本舞踊) Vol. 64 (Jan. 1, 1943)
Image courtesy of a Private Collector
1971
[Battle of the Kokusen'ya] Kokusen'ya Gassen
(国姓爺合戦)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (国姓爺合戦)
Print Date: 1971
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Castle Fine Arts
DECEMBER 1997
Watônai no tora (和藤内の虎)
Play: Kokusenya Kassen (国性爺合戦)
Print Date: 12/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Watônai no tora (和藤内の虎)
Medium: Relief print with kappazuri coloring
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#24/30)
UNKNOWN DATES
Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com
Toradoshi ni In mo (寅歳に因も):
Kuniseijī Katsusen no Watônai
(國姓爺合戰の和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Edo Tako-e (江戸凧繪)
Image courtesy of Henk Herwig
Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen
(國性爺合戦)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa
(上野忠雅)
Medium: Woodblock printed
greeting card
Image courtesy of Yamada
Shoten
Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya
Gassen
(国性爺合戦)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
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Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen
(國性爺合戦)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Kumadori (隈取)
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Watônai (和藤内)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: (Year of the Tiger)
Series: Ôno Shin (大野信)
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
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