KONJIKI YASHA
(金色夜叉)

aka TSURUGI (剱; 釼)

               

Play: Konjiki Yasha (金色夜叉) 
Performance Place: Masago-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/05
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. 63 (July 1, 1905)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

Shimoyama Kyôko (下山京子) as
Akagashi Mitsue (赤樫満枝)

Play: Konjiki Yasha (金色夜叉)
Performance Place: Engi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Ishii Hakutei (石井柏亭)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Shinsengumi (新撰組); Konjiki Yasha (金色夜叉); Kenkaku Shobai (劔客商賣)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/1927
Print Date: 08/1927?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Shinkokugeki 10th anniversary performance.  The cover depicts Sawada Shôjirô (澤田正二郞;
沢田正二郎) as Shinsengumi Kondô Isami (新撰組近藤勇) in Shinsengumi (新撰組).
 
 
 

                   
Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as Omiya (大宮)

Play: Konjiki Yasha (金色夜叉)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/31
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Print Date:  [1932-1934]
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note:  Although listed in a Watanabe sales catalog, it is
possible that this print was never editioned.