MATSUMOTO KÔSHIRÔ VII (松本幸四郎)
06/10/1870 - 01/27/1949

aka ICHIKAWA KOMAZÔ VIII (市川高麗蔵)
ICHIKAWA SOMEGORÔ IV (市川染五郎)




 
MARCH 1900
    

 
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Jûrô (曽我十郎)


Play: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono
(夜討曽我狩場曙)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/1900
Print Date: 02/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum


   Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
   Nitta Shirô (仁田四郎)
  
   Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
   as     Gosho Goromaru (御所五郎丸)

 


  Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎;
  市川團十郎) as  Soga Gorô (曽我五郎)


    
      Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
      Gosho Goromaru (御所五郎丸)

      Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎;
      市川團十郎) as  Soga Gorô (曽我五郎)

      Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
      Kisegawa Kametsuru (喜瀬川亀鶴)

      Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
      Soga Jûrô (曽我十郎)

      Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
      Nitta Shirô (仁田四郎)

      Play: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono
      (夜討曽我狩場曙)
      Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
      Performance Date: 03/07/1900
      Print Date: 04/14/1900
      Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
      Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
      Memorial Theatre Museum


   


 


 

          
 

 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Nitta Shirô (仁田四郎)

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Jûrô (曽我十郎)

Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
Gosho Goromaru (御所五郎丸)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎;
市川團十郎) as  Soga Gorô (曽我五郎)

Play: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono
(夜討曽我狩場曙)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/1900
Print Date: 05/21/1900?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 


  
  
 

 


 


    


 


OCTOBER 1900    

              


Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎)  as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)




Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/1900
Print Date: 10/1900?
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This posthumously-issued print is a
revised version of a design originally
issued in connection with an October
1895 production at the Shintomi-za with a
different cast.


   Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
   Fujiwara no Shiheikô (時平公)

   Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
   Matsuômaru (松王丸)




 


Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)




         
           Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎)  as
           Sakuramaru (桜丸)


     
     
           Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
           (菅原伝授手習鑑)
           Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
           Performance Date: 10/12/1900
           Print Date: 10/1900?
           Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
           Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
           Memorial Theatre Museum

           Note: This posthumously-issued print is a
           revised version of a design originally
           issued in connection with a November
          1898 production at the Meiji-za with a
          different cast. 
 
 
 


  Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
  Umeômaru (梅王丸)

  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
  Fujiwara no Shiheikô (時平公)
 


   Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
   Matsuômaru (松王丸)




JANUARY 1902

 


Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
Ningyô Tsukaihi (人形遣ひ)
  

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 01/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Kunitachi
College of Music Library (Takeuchi
Bunko)
 
 
 



  Onoe Eizaburô V
  (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
  Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)
 
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
Ningyô Tsukaihi (人形遣ひ)


  Unread as Musician
  Unread as Musician

 

                

 

    


  

           

            
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as ?

? as [Musicians] 
 
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)

Onoe Eizaburô V  (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Artist: ?
Print Date: 03/27/02
 
 

APRIL 1902


Ichikawa Somegorô IV
(市川染五郎) as
Usui Yojirô Hyôe
(笛吹与次郎兵衛)

Play: Fukitori Tsuma (吹取妻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/27/02
Print Date: 03/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the
Ritsumeikan ARC Collection


Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎)  as
Inakasha Karoku (田舎者鹿六)


  Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
  Yomegoryô (嫁御寮)

    

  


Ichikawa Somegorô IV
(市川染五郎) as
Inukawa Sôsuke (犬川荘助)

Play: Satomi Hakkenden
(里見八犬伝)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/23/02
Print Date: 04/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This design was reused for
a performance at the Kabuki-za in
November 1902 with a different
cast
 
 
 
.


Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Inuyama Dôsetsu (犬山道節)


  Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
  Musume Hamaji (娘濱路)

MAY 1902


Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵) as Sanshô Mitashi  (山樵三田仕)
 
Onoe Ushinosuke II (尾上丑之助) as Kaidômaru  (怪童丸)
 
Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as Yamanba (山姥) or
 
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as Yamanba (山姥) or
 
Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Yamanba (山姥)
 
Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/17/02
Print Date: 1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
Note: Three actors alternated in the role of Yamanba.  With the use of a "shikake" flap, two different  actor faces
were created for Yamanba, although it is not known which face corresponds to which actor.
 
 
 
 



           
             Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
            Yamanba (山姥) or
 
            Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as Yamanba (山姥) or
 
            Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
            Yamanba (山姥)
 
            Play: Yamanba (山姥)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/17/02
            Print Date: 1902
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
            Note: Face of Yamanba with flap down.
 
 



           
             Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
            Yamanba (山姥) or
 
            Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as Yamanba (山姥) or
 
            Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
            Yamanba (山姥)
 
            Play: Yamanba (山姥)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/17/02
            Print Date: 1902
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
            Note: Face of Yamanba with flap up.
 
 

NOVEMBER 1902


Ichikawa Saruzô (市川猿蔵) as
Tengu (天狗)

Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
as Tengu (天狗)

,
Play: Takatoki (高時)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/13/02
Print Date: 11/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 




  Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
  (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
  Hôjô Takatoki (高時)
 


  Ichikawa Shinjûrô III (市川新十郎) as
  Tengu (天狗)
 

    

     
     

MARCH 1903


Left Panel, Top Row: Unknown as Unread; Unknown as Unread;
Unknown as Unread

Left Panel, Middle Row: Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Oniô Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門); Unknown as Unread

Left Panel, Bottom Row: Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎;
市川權十郎) as Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈);
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Middle Panel, Top Row: Unknown as Unread;
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎);
Unread as Unknown, Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Unread

Middle Panel, Bottom Row: Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成);
Onoe ô EizaburVI (尾上栄三郎;  尾上榮三郎) as
Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)
     
Right Panel, Top Row: Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川團十郎;
市川團十郎) as Kudô Saemon Suketsune (工藤左衛門祐経);
Unread as Unknown; Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Kewaizaka no Shôshô (化粧坂少将); Unknown as Unread

Right Panel, Bottom Row: Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
as Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太); Unknown as Unread

Play: Kichirei Soga no Ishizue (吉例曽我礎)
[aka Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16/03
Print Date: 03/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Kabuki21.com
 


Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Oniô Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川團十郎;
市川團十郎)
as Kudô Saemon Suketsune
(工藤左衛門祐経)

Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎;
市川權十郎) as
Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成)

Unknown as
Unread














Play: Kichirei Soga no Ishizue
(吉例曽我礎)
[aka Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16/03
Print Date: 06/10/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 



  Unknown as Unread
 
  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
  Kewaizaka no Shôshô (化粧坂少将)

  Unknown as Unread

  Unknown as Unread

  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
  Unread

  Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎;
  尾上榮三郎) as
  Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)

  Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎)
  as Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)

  Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
  Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎)



  


 


  

MAY 1903

 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII
(市川高麗蔵)
as Aoyagi Yûhei (青柳勇平)


Play: Onna Date Komagata Osen
(女侠駒形おせん)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/03
Print Date: 05/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of  UPS Marega





Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫)
as Komagata Osen (駒形おせん)


  Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵)
  as Araki Tsuyoshi Saemon
  (荒木剛左衛門)

     
     Onoe Eizaburô VI
     (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
     Tachimochi (太刀持)

     Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
     Daimyô Bô (大名某)

     Play: Suô Otoshi (素襖落)
     Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 05/09/03
     Print Date: 05/1903
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
     Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 


Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as
Tarôkaja (太郎冠者)


  Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
  Hime Goryô (姫御寮)

NOVEMBER 1903


Ichikawa Komazô VIII
(市川高麗蔵) as
Fudôyama Hidegorô
(不動山秀五郎)

Play: Mikazuki (三日月)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/10/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Central Metropolitan Library
       




  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
  Nyôbô Okiku (女房お菊)
 


Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
Mikazuki Jirokichi (三日月治郎吉)



JANUARY 1904   


    
  

Play: Chûkô Ume no Kanazawa
(忠孝梅金沢)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/13/04
Print Date: 01/1904
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 


Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Sakata Zenzaburô (坂田善三郎)


  Ichikawa Komazô VIII 
  (市川高麗蔵) as
  Takamura Banemon (高村伴右エ門)


MAY 1904


Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Yatôta (弥藤次?)

Play: Tekikoku Kôfuku
(敵国降伏)
Performance Place: Meijii-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1904
Print Date: 05/1904?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
 
 
 


Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Koukichi Shiya? (弘吉剌?)



Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵)
as Unread (?烈)


1905


Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)


  


Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3,
Scene 1 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1905
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)

Note: I have not found a
contemporaneous stage performance
with this particular cast.  Some of
the actors, however, did appear in a
production at the Kabuki-za in
November 1903.  See also Kunisada
III's paper model prints of April
1902.
 
 
 


Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵)
as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Ichikawa Kodanji V
(市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Fujiwara no Shihei (藤原時平)


  Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
  Matsuômaru (松王丸)


MARCH 1907


Ichikawa Sôzaburô VI (市川宗三郎) as
Miyakoshi Genba (宮越玄蕃)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV as
Soga no Iruka (蘇我入鹿)
 
Ichikawa Dan'emon? (市川団右衛門)
as Aramaki Yatôji (荒巻弥藤次)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tōfu Ka Omura.(豆腐買おむら)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Omiwa (お三輪)
  
Ichikawa Komazô VIII as
Fukashichi (鱶七)

Play:  Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓), Act 4, Scene 4:
Mikasayama Goten (三笠山御殿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/07
Print Date: 06/01/07
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Uzaemon XV and Komazô VIII
alternated roles during this production.

 





Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as
[Court Lady] Kanjo (官女)
 
Onoe Baikô VI as Motome (求女)
 
Sawamura Tosshô III as
Princess Tachibana (橘姫)




  


 


  



APRIL 1907


Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)
  

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/07
Print Date: 04/1907
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan
ARC
 
 


Ichikawa Komazô VIII
(市川高麗蔵) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)


Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

JUNE 1911

                 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as
Chienai (智恵内)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/11
Print Date: 06/1911?
Artist: Yamamoto Kanae (山本鼎)
Series: Sôga Butai Sugata (草画舞台姿), Vol. 1
[Les Feuilles Théâtrales]  
Personal Collection

Note: This print was self-carved by Yamamoto Kanae for members
of the Tokyo Hanga Kurabu Hakko (東京版画倶楽部發行).
 
 



SEPTEMBER 1911

                 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as
Anewa Heiji (姉輪平次)

Play: Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/11
Print Date: 09/17/1911
Artist: Sakamoto Hanjirô (坂本繁二郎)
Series: Sôga Butai Sugata (草画舞台姿), Vol. 3
[Les Feuilles Théâtrales]    
Personal Collection

Note: This print was carved by Yamamoto Kanae for members
of the Tòkyò Hanga Kurabu Hakkò (東京版画倶楽部發行).
 
 


DECEMBER 1911

                   

Print Date: 12/28/11, Appendix to Engei Gahô Vol. 6
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection

 
  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
  Chobei (長兵衛)
 
  Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
  (御存鈴ヶ森)
  Performance Place: ?
  Performance Date: ?
  Print Date: 012/28/11
  Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
 
  Note: Since Kôshirô VII assumed that name
  in November 1911, it would appear that Torii
  Kiyotada is depicting him a performance
  under an earlier name.

           


                      

       


Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 012/28/11
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
 
Note: Since Kôshirô VII assumed that name
in November 1911, it would appear that Torii
Kiyotada is depicting him a performance
under an earlier name.
          
        

 

            
            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?
 
            Play: ?
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: 012/28/11
            Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
 
            Note: Since Kôshirô VII assumed that name
            in November 1911, it would appear that Torii
            Kiyotada is depicting him a performance
            under an earlier name.