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)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
Musashibô Benkei
(武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Furuya Shin (古家新)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Series: Kabuki Sobyô-shû
(歌舞伎 素描集)
Personal Collection
Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role
in Tokyo twenty-three times between
April 1914 and June 1946.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Personal Collection
Note: Koshirô VII performed the role of Benkei
in Kanjinchô in
Tokyo twenty-three times between April 1914 and
June 1946,
although this print likely reflects a
performance in Osaka or
Kyoto.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Benkei (弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as
Musashibô
Benkei
(武藏坊辨慶;
武蔵坊弁慶)
Play:
Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist:
Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium:
Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal
Collection
Note:
Kôshirô VII and Sadanji II
performed
their respective roles
opposite
each other four times in
Tokyo
between March 1925 and
November
1937. Presumably one of
these
productions toured Osaka.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed magazine print
Personal Collection
Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role in Tokyo at least
23 times between 1914 and 1946. Another seller on eBay
with the same print said it was in a September 1924
issue of an unidentified magazine, but I have not been
able to confirm this.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: During the Taishô era
when
Eishô was active as a print
designer,
Kôshirô VII performed this
role seven
times between April 1914 and
March
1925.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed fan
Note: Kôshirô VII first performed this role in Tokyo at the
Teikoku Gekijô
in April 1914. His final appearance in Tokyo in this role
was at the Tokyo
Gekijô in June 1946.
Matsumoto Kôshirô (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Personal Collection
Note: Kôshirô VII performed
this role in
Tokyo twenty-three times
between April
1914 and June 1946. It
could even depict
Kôshirô VIII, who performed
the role in
Tokyo twenty-three times
between
September 1949 and September
1975.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Note: Kôshirô VII first per-
formed this role in Tokyo at
the Teikoku Gekijô in April
1914. His final appearance
in Tokyo in this role was at
the Tokyo Gekijô in June 1946.
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子) and similar plays
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)
Title: Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #6
Note: Although no image is currently available,
the original folder indicates that this is a diptych.
Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as Chôbei
(長兵衛)
Play:
Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
(御存鈴ヶ森 )
Artist: ?
Medium:
Woodblock printed
matchbook
cover
Note:
Kôshirô VII performed
this role
in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijo in June
1916, and at the
Kabuki-za
in May 1920 and
May 1930,
and February 1939.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju
Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
Note: This print may not be by
Sadanobu III. Kôshirô VII
played this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in May 1921, at the
Teikoku Gekijô in January
1929, and at the Kabuki-za in
January 1934 and January
1937. However, it likely
reflects a performance in
Osaka or Kyoto. A related
senshafuda is in the
Unknown Artist - Senshafuda
Set #1 section.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as Umeômaru (梅王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Note: Kôshirô VII performed this
role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
May 1921, at the Teikoku Gekijô
in January 1929, and at the
Kabuki-za in January 1934 and
January 1937.
Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若;
實川延若); Bandô Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎);
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎); Ichimura Uzaemon
XV (市村羽左衛門)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Five pochibukuro, possibly
reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above:
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎); Kataoka Nizaemon XI
or XII (片岡仁左衛門);
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸); Onoe
Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎);
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa
Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role
eleven times in Tokyo between May 1912
and April 1947.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Sekibê (関兵衛)
Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪関扉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role
five times in Tokyo between December
1912 and May 1937.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Inukai Genpachi Nobumichi
(犬飼現八信通)
Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden
(南総里見八犬傳)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Series: [Eight Dog Heroes by Famous
Actors] Meiyu Hakkenden (名優八犬傳)
Personal Collection
Note: This is a mitate-e.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role in
Tokyo at least three times between 1919
and 1936.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?
Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎 ) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助) as
Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection