KOMOCHI YAMANBA
(嫗山姥)

aka YAEGIRI KURUWA BANASHI (八重桐廓噺)

Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as [Yaegiri of the Hagino Family] Hagino-ka no Yaegiri (萩野家の八重桐 )
 
Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/97
Print Date: 01/28/97
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Shin Fûfu (新夫婦); Mannengusa (万年草); Shaka (釈迦); Dekinai Sôdan (出来ない相談);
Fûzoku Meisho Awase (風俗名所合); Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (偽紫田舎源氏);
Komochi Yamanba (嫗山媼)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:   06/01/12
Print Date: 06/1912?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 
 

Plays: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Sêrasu Songu, Endo, Dansu (セーラス　ソング、エンド、ダンス);
Shin Fûfu (新夫婦); Dekinai Sôdan (出来ない相談); Fûzoku Meisho Awase (風俗名所合せ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:   06/15/12
Print Date: 06/1912?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Yaegiri (八重桐)

Play: Komochi Yamanba
(嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/16
Print Date: 01/1916?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: During the relevant time period
when the print could have been made,
Tokizô III also performed this role at
the Aomori Kabukiza in August 1921
and at the Shôchiku Gekijô in May
1926.  It is possible that this print
reflects one of those performances.
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Shinnyo (真如); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Nagamachi On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切);
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Hosokawa Chi Daruma (細川血達摩); Imoseyama Michiyuki (妹背山道行);
Honganji Engi (本願寺縁起); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Horikawa Youchi (堀河夜討);
Yûgiri Izaemon (夕ぎり伊左衛門); Katsudô Kyô Jidai (活動狂時代);
Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/1927?]
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 

                   
Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Komochi Yamanba
(嫗山姥)
Print Date: 09/27/42
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Tsuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 月の巻)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Tabakoya Genshichi (煙草屋源七)

Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 12/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵)  as
Oginoya Yaegiri-go ni Yamanba (萩の家八重桐後に山姥)

Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 10/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Yamanba (山姥)
 
Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artst: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI performed this role in Tokyo at
the Teikoku Gekijô in November 1917.  He
also portrayed a character called Yamanba in
a play called Wakakusa Ashigara no Tsuki
(嫩草足柄之月) at the Ichimura-za in May 1921
which may or may not involve the same character.