Matsumoto Koshiro VII (松本幸四郎) aka Ichikawa Komazo VIII (市川高麗蔵) aka Ichikawa Somegoro IV (市川染五郎)

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)

JANUARY 1921

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Shujin Bô (主人某)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Tarôkaja (太郎冠者)

Plays: Yuki On'na Gomai Hagoita (雪女五枚羽子板); Suô Otoshi (素襖落); Ryûkyô Yawa (柳橋夜話);
Chôchidori Sato no Harukoma (蝶千鳥廓春駒); Dontsuku (どんつく)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/21
Print Date: 01/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Akamatsu Nyûdô Mitsusuke
(赤松入道満祐) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tônai Saburô Moriharu
(藤内三郎盛治) in Yuki On'na Gomai Hagoita (雪女五枚羽子板); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Yoshinoya Koshizu (吉野家小静) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sawamura
Tanosuke (沢村田之助) in Ryûkyô Yawa (柳橋夜話).

APRIL 1921

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Plays: Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石噺); Noriaibune (浄瑠璃乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yahê (弥兵衛) and Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Okô (お幸) in Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Shinobu (信夫) in Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺).

MAY 1921

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門 )

Play: Koi no Minato Hakata no Hitofushi (恋湊博多諷)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 05/1921?
Artist: ?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print is similar in format to the series of prints
designed by Kunisada III between 1917 and 1920, and
was probably issued by the publisher in a limited attempt
to continue the series after Kunisada III's death in 1920.
It is also possible that it is a posthumous reissue of an
unknown Kunisada III design.

        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: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 05/01/21
        Print Date: 1921?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        senshafuda
        Personal Collection

        Note: See the Undated Kôshirô VII
        fora possibly related pochibukuro.

JUNE 1921

Plays: Midareyaki (みだれ焼); Na ni Tachibana Homare no Ishikiri (名橘譽石切);
Hatsukohi Ji Chigusa no Nuregoto (初戀路千種濡事); Yari Odori Hana no Danmaku (鎗踊花段幕)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/21
Print Date: 06/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover depicts Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時)
in Na ni Tachibana Homare no Ishikiri (名橘譽石切); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌), Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎), Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) in unknown
roles.

SEPTEMBER 1921

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takeda Shingen (武田信玄) and [Spiritual Father Belton] Rei
Chichi Beruton (靈父べルトン)

Plays: Koi no Shingen (戀の信玄); Gokuraku no Oni (極楽の鬼); Kantan (邯鄲); Inu (犬)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/21
Print Date: 09/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as Rosei [Lu Sheng] (盧生) in
Kantan (邯鄲); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as [Steven] Suteban (ステバン) in Inu (犬).

OCTOBER 1921

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tawaraya Sôtatsu (俵屋宗達)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (烏丸光広)

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Gakusô Keiun (學僧慶雲)

Plays: Honchô Ôshôkun (本朝王昭君); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Meigetsu Hachiman Matsuri
(名月八幡祭)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/21
Print Date: 10/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Onatsu (おなつ) in Onatsu Kyôran
(おなつ狂乱); and Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Uosô (魚惣), Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Chijimiya Shinsuke (縮屋新助), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Geisha Miyokichi (芸者美代吉) in Meigetsu Hachiman Matsuri (名月八幡祭).

NOVEMBER 1921

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection

Note: Prior to the publication of this print, Kôshirô VII
performed this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in
April 1916.

                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)

                Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康)

                 Plays: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記);
                Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 11/01/21
                Print Date: 11/1921?
                Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
                Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                Note: The cover also depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Zatô Sawaichi (座頭沢市) and
                Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里) in Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記); and Onoe
                Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Banto Gobei (番頭五兵衛), Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
                as Haiya Saburôbê (灰屋三郎兵衛), and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Keizan-ko (慶山公)
                in Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨).

JANUARY 1922

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Satsuki (早月)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takechi Jubei Mitsuhide (武智十兵衛光秀)

Plays: Urami no Omote (怨恨の面); Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記); Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番叟);
Shichiya no Kura Kokoro no Irekae (質屋土蔵魂入替)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/22
Print Date: 01/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Mizuki Tatsue (水木辰江)
and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Bandô Sannokichi (坂東三濃吉) in Urami no Omote (怨恨の面); Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sanbasô (三番叟) in Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番叟); and Morita Kan'ya
XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kongming [Zhuge Liang] Taiko no Sei (孔明陣太鼓の精) in Shichiya no Kura Kokoro
no Irekae (質屋土蔵魂入替).

[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀) disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/22
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection

APRIL 1922

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐); Takatoki (高時); Chiyoda Ninjô (千代田刃傷);
Modoribashi (戻橋); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/22
Print Date: 04/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sayuri (小百合) in Modoribashi (戻橋);
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Shinanoya Ohan (信濃屋お半) and Morita Kan'ya
XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Obiya Chôemon '(帯屋長右衛門) in Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
(桂川連理柵); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Matsudaira Geki (松平外記) and
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Chichi Yorimo (父頼母) in Chiyoda Ninjô (千代田刃傷).

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

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

Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺引); Kôtô no Naishi (勾當内侍); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Kosodemaku Yamato Nishikie (小袖幕大和錦繪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/17/22
Print Date: 04/1922?
Artists: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed? program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This was an entertainment for the Tokyo City Welcome Party for His Royal Highness
The Prince of Wales. The middle panel was designed by Kubota Beisai (久保田米星). The cover also
depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Maizuru (舞鶴) and Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Soga no
Gorô (曽我ノ五郎) in Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺引); and Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Kôtô (勾當) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Yura Hyôgonosuke (由良兵庫助)
in Kôtô no Naishi (勾當内侍).

JUNE 1922

Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Ishidô Umanojô (石堂右馬之丞)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ono Kudayû (斧九太夫)

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okaru (お軽)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )

Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Tabi Sugata Omoi no Kake Ine
(旅姿思掛稲); Tsuyu no Harema Sora ha Sumiyoshi (入梅晴間空住吉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

SEPTEMBER 1922

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Mômoku no Sô (盲目の僧)

Plays: Yuki no Yûbe (雪の夕); Ike (池); Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku (太平記忠臣講釈); Uirô (ういらう)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/05/22
Print Date: 09/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎) in Uirô (ういらう); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yazama Kinai (矢間喜内)
and Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Yazama Jûtarô (矢間重太郎) in Taiheiki Chûshin
Kôshaku (太平記忠臣講釈).

OCTOBER 1922

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Shirabyôshi Sakurako jitsu ha Kyôgen-shi Sakon (白拍子桜子実ハ狂言師左近)

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: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegiri of the Hagino
Family] Hagino-ka no Yaegiri (萩野家の八重桐) in Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rônin Gotô Genjirô (浪人後藤源次郎) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Rônin Isogai Kazuma (浪人磯貝數馬) in Shinnyo (真如); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸)
as Hanshichi no Oba (半七の叔母) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Iwami (石見) in Nagamachi
On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切).

NOVEMBER 1922

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kiyohara no Takehira (清原武衡)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Plays: Shibaraku (暫); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Fuji Daiko (富士太鼓);
Higan no Yûbe (彼岸の夕); Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
in Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Denbei
(傳兵衛) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as O-Ume (お梅) in Higan no Yûbe
(彼岸の夕); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Fuji No Tsuma Suminoe (富士の妻住の江) and
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toin Nagazane (洞院長實) in Fuji Daiko (富士太鼓).

JANUARY 1923

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Rokujô Shôshô Tadaaki (六條少将忠顕)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Narita Kosaburô Takashin (成田小三郎尭心)

Plays: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年);
Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水); Modori Kago Iro Koi Aigata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/23
Print Date: 01/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mondo (主水) in
Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshioka] Kijirô
(吉岡鬼次郎) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Okyô (お京) in Kiichi Hôgen
Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻).

APRIL 1923

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Saruhashi Uemon (猿橋右門)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Nanao Kinshirô (七尾金四郎)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助)

Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); Saki Kisô Yuki no Ume ga Ka
(咲競雪梅香); Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Koshimoto
Chidori (腰元千鳥) in Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精) in Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Mitsunari (三成) in Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利).

JUNE 1923

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ataka Gôemon (安宅郷右衛門)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôta Ôi (太田大炊)

Plays: Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動); Shizuhata Obi (賤機帯); Ryôgoku no Aki (兩国の秋);
Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ono Komachi (小野小町)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/23
Print Date: 06/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nishina Rin'nosuke
(仁科林之助), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hebitsukahi Okinu (蛇つかひお絹), and Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Toyokichi (豊吉) in Ryôgoku no Aki (兩国の秋); Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱) in Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Ono Komachi (小野小町).

OCTOBER 1924

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kôno Rokurô Michiari (河野六郎通有)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hôjô Sagam-no-Kami Tokimune (北條相模守時宗)

Plays: Kamikaze (神風); Momiji no Eneshi no Shirahari (紅葉宴衛士白張);
Otsuma Hachirobê Ryôgoku Kôdan (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談); Mei Ranfan (梅蘭芳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/25/24 - 11/04/24
Print Date: 10/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otsuma (お妻) and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as O-Rin (お臨) in Otsuma Hachirobê Ryôgoku Kôdan (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談).

[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date:
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection

Note: This appears to be a mitate-e. I can find no record
of these performers appearing together in this roles in
Tokyo

.

NOVEMBER 1924

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII also portrayed this role in an April
1916 production at the Teikoku Gekijô.

                        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
                        Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

                        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
                        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                        Performance Date: 11/06/1924
                        Print Date: 1926
                        Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
                        Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 1
                        Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Masaoka (政岡)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Rokubei (六兵衛), Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Takagi
Shizuma (高木志津馬), and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Muneharu (宗春) in
Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾).

DECEMBER 1924

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takatoki (高時)

Plays: Oukyo to Rosetsu (應擧と蘆雪); Takatoki (高時); Kashiko ki Baka (賢き馬鹿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/06/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Maruyama Ôkyo (圓山應擧) and
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as Komai Genki (駒井源琦) in Ôkyo to Rosetsu (應擧と蘆雪).

JANUARY 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Plays: Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵);
Yakko Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 01/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yakko-dako (奴凧) in Yakko
Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takuemon (武右衛門) and
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫) in Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫); and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ohan (お半) in Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵).

FEBRUARY 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #2
Personal Collection

                    Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sukeroku (助六)
                    Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Agemaki (揚巻)
                    Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ikyû (意休)

                    Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
                    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 02/08/25
                    Print Date: 02/1925?
                    Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
                    Personal Collection

                    Note: The same design was used for an earlier production at
                    the Kabuki-za in 1915 that also featured Ichimura Uzaemon XV.

MARCH 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date: 03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kôshirô VII also performed the role at the Teikoku
Gekijô in January 1925 and April 1927. I cannot rule out
the possibility that this print reflects one of those
performances. Sadanji II, however, did not appear in
those productions, so if Hanayama's prints of Kôshirô VII
and Sadanji II are from the same production of Kanjinchô,
it would have been the March 1925 production at the
Kabuki-za.

Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date: 03/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon banzuke
Personal Collection

                Envelope for the preceding ehon banzuke

                Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 03/06/25
                Print Date: 03/1925?
                Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
                Personal Collection

APRIL 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Izutsuya Tazaemon (井筒屋太左衛門)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors
of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #1
Personal Collection

            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
            Izutsuya Tazaemon (井筒屋太左衛門)

            Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
            Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/01/25
            Print Date: 1928?
            Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
            (神下周峯)
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
    `       Personal Collection

                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
                Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

                Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 04/01/25
                Print Date: 04/1925?
                Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
                Medium: Lithograph
                Personal Collection

                Note: Kôshirô VII also portrayed Ômori Hikoshichi in a
                production at the Kabuki-za in March 1926. I cannot
                rule out the possibility that this print reflects that
                performance.

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精) in
Tsuchigumo (土蜘);; Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安) in Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸) and
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Umeômaru (梅王丸) in Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑).

JUNE 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takasago Jôbei (高砂尉兵衛)

Plays: Ôokurakyô (大蔵卿); Modoribashi (戻橋); Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門);
Futaribakama (二人袴)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/25
Print Date: 06/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Sakaida Kakiemon
(酒井田柿右衛門) in Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sayuri (小百合)
in Modoribashi (戻橋); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ōe Hiromiori (大江廣盛), Morita Kan'ya
XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshioka Onijirô (吉岡鬼次郎), and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Ichijô Ôkurakyô (一條大蔵卿) in Ôkurakyô (大蔵卿).

JULY 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Saitō Tarōzaemon (斎藤太郎左衛門)

Plays: Taiheiki Asahi no Yoroi (太平記曦鎧); Kureputomênia (クレプトメーニア);
Tabi he Deta Ungo Zenji (旅へ出た雲悟禅師); Kôsokudo Kigeki (高速度喜劇);
Umi to Yama (folkdance) (海と山); Ryoku Botan Ichiza Shutsuen Shinageki (緑牡丹一座出演支那劇)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/25
Print Date: 07/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ungo Zenji (雲悟禅師) in Tabi he
Deta Ungo Zenji (旅へ出た雲悟禅師).

OCTOBER 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nichiren (日蓮)

Play: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hirano Saemon-no-jô (平ノ左衛門尉)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren (日蓮)

Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
in Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Saibôzu Nishizumi (斉坊主西住)
and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koume (小梅) in Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛).

NOVEMBER 1925

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀) disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Takechi Jûjirô (武智十次郎)

Plays: Maimôsu Iro no Tanemaki (舞奏いろの蒔種); Ehon Taikôki (本太功記);
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); Rakuhoku no Aki (洛北の秋);
Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (権八小紫其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/25
Print Date: 11/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yazaemon (弥左衛門) and Morita
Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yasuke (弥助) in Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); and
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Komurasaki Miuraya (三浦屋小柴) and Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八) in Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (権八小紫其小唄夢廓).

JANUARY 1926

[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site. The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.

                        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII ( 松本幸四郎) as
                        Sekimori Sekibê (関守関兵衛)

                        Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
                        (積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪關扉)
                        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                        Performance Date: 01/01/26
                        Publication Date: 1927
                        Artist:?

                Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sumizome (墨染)

                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sekibei jitsu ha Ōtomo no Kuronushi (関兵衛実ハ大伴黒主)

                Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松); Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
                (浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); Haru no Shirabe Musume
                Nanakusa (春調娘七種); Kyôran Kumoi no Sode (狂乱雲井袖); Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 01/01/26
                Print Date: 01/1926?
                Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
                Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tenmei Tarô (天明太郎) in
                Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Furuteya Hachirobei
                (古手屋八郎兵衛) in Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); and Onoe Matsusuke IV
                (尾上松助) as Uratayu (浦太夫) in Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松).

APRIL 1926

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kazusa (上總)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Plays: Nigatsudô (二月堂); Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅); Inaka Genji Tsuyu no Shinonome
(田舎源氏露東雲); Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 04/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rôben Daisôjô (良辨大僧正)
in Nigatsudô (二月堂); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shinonome (東雲) in Inaka Genji Tsuyu no Shinonome
(田舎源氏露東雲); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kurotegumi Sukeroku
(黒手組助六) in Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引).

MAY 1926

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII ( 松本幸四郎)
as Miura (三浦)

Ichikawa Sumizô VI ( 市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵)
as Hanaregoma (放駒)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)
as Asahi (朝日)

Ichikawa Ennosuke II ( 市川猿之助; えん之助)
as Tôinu (唐犬)

Play: Otokodate Bayari (男達ばやり)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Konô Michisei (河野通勢)
Series: Kabuki E-ban Gashū (歌舞伎絵版画集)
Personal Collection

JUNE 1926

Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Takano Choei (高野長英)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Genpaku (玄朴)

Plays: Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); Sangoku Musô Hisago no Gunpai (三國無双瓢軍配);
Genboku to Chôei (玄朴と長英); Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/26
Print Date: 06/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ikushima Shingorô
(生島新五郎), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ejima (江島), and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Tatsuma Saburôbei (達摩三郎兵衛) in Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); and Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺所化清心) in Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui
(柳巷春着薊色縫).

OCTOBER 1926

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Torazô (虎蔵), actually Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)

Plays: Kazumiya-sama Otsukai (和宮様御使); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Katakiuchi Gappô-ga-Tsuji (敵討合法辻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/26
Print Date: 10/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Tachiba Taheiji (立場太平次) in
Katakiuchi Gappô-ga-Tsuji (敵討合法辻); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助), Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌), and Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) in
unknown roles.

NOVEMBER 1926

Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kurayami no Ushimatsu (くらやみの丑松)

Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takega (丈賀)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)

Plays: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍); Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/26
Print Date: 11/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toriyama Inuchiyo
(鳥山犬千代) in Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚).

JANUARY 1927

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Sano Hyôe (佐野兵衛)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sano Genzaemon (佐野源左衛門)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Miura Arajirō Yoshizumi (三浦荒次郎義澄)

Plays: Yûshoku Kamakura (有職鎌倉山); Koito Sashichi Honchô Itoya Musume (小糸佐七本町糸屋の娘);
Shakkyô (石橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/05/27
Print Date: 01/1927?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as [The Spirit of the Parent Lion]
Oya shishi no Sei (親獅子の精) in Shakkyô (石橋); and Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as Koito (小糸) in
Koito Sashichi Honchô Itoya Musume (小糸佐七本町糸屋の娘).

MARCH 1927

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Takatoki (髙時)

Play: Takatoki (髙時)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/04/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
2-shû (舞台絵巻第2集)
Image courtesy of Gary
Christenson

APRIL 1927

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Musashibô Benkei
(武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎 as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
3rd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
3-shû (舞台絵巻第3集)
Personal Collection

                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)

                Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

                Plays: Zenzen Taieiki (前々太平記); Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
                Kasane Monogatari (累物語); Noriaibune (乗合船)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 04/01/27
                Print Date: 04/1927?
                Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
                Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Magarikane no Kingorô (曲金の金五郎)
                and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (かさね) in Kasane Monogatari (累物語); and Sawamura
                Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Shinobu (信夫) in Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺).

JUNE 1927

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Midaroku ( 弥陀六)

Plays: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Saruhiki Fukudayu
(猿曳福太夫) in Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu
(蝙蝠安), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (お富; おとみ), and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎).

OCTOBER 1927

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren Shonin (日蓮上人)

Plays: Goemon no Kama (五右衛門の釜); Hamamatsu Kaze Koi no Utabito (濱松風戀歌);
Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戦強者); Shanto Kangen ( 社頭諫言);
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/27
Print Date: 10/1927?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kofuji (小ふじ) in Hamamatsu Kaze Koi no
Utabito (濱松風戀歌); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kawachi no Hara Gorô (河内の原五郎)
and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Genshichi (源七) in Goemon no Kama (五右衛門の釜);
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Benten Kozô Kikunosuke (弁天小僧菊之助) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪); and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Baba Sarurobê (馬塲三郎兵衛) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戦強者).

NOVEMBER 1927

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ono Kudayû (斧九太夫)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Wakasanosuke (若狭之助)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okura (おかる)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play: Chûshingura (忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/27
Print Date: 11/1927?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

JANUARY 1928

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)
Play: Kichirei Soga no Taimen
(吉例曽我対面)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/28
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #5
Personal Collection

                Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ofune (お舟)

                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Tonbei (頓兵衛)

                Plays: Yoyogi no Kamikaze (代々木の神風); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡);
                Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曾我對面); Ibaraki (茨木); Osada no Adauchi (おさだの仇討);
                Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番叟); Nochi no Tsuki Shuen Shimadai (后月酒宴島臺)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 01/01/28
                Print Date: 01/1928?
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Sanbasô (三番叟) in Ayatsuri
                Sanbasô (操り三番叟); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Onio Shinzaemon (鬼王新左衛門) in
                Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曾我對面); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki Dôji (茨木童子) in
                Ibaraki (茨木).

APRIL 1928

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)

Plays: Shinmon Tatsugorô (新門辰五郎); Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Suô Otoshi (素襖落);
Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura (博多小女郎浪枕); Hidari Kogatana (左小刀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/28
Print Date: 04/1928?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover depicts Bandô Shûka (坂東しうか; 坂東志うか) as Kinmenuki Ginji (金目貫銀次),
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tobei (藤兵衛), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Shinmon
Tatsugorô (新門辰五郎), and Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Oroku (お六) in Shinmon
Tatsugorô (新門辰五郎); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kajiwara Genta
Kagesue (梶原源太景季) in Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記).

JUNE 1928

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Goemon (五右衛門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1928
Print Date: 06/1928?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Personal Collection

Note: There is a record here of Kôshirô VII performing in
this play with Sôjûrô VII in January 1923 but not the venue:
https://zeami.ci.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/~izuka/erito1/tujikabuki1.html
The pair also played the same roles in a production of
Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜渕双級巴) at the
Teikoku Gekijô in October 1928. Given that 1928 appears
to be rather late for Hanayama print, it is possible that the
print reflects a prior performance outside of Tokyo.

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mashiba Hisayoshi (羽柴久吉)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Goemon (五右衛門)

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐); Murai Chôan Takumi no Yaregasa (村井長庵巧破傘);
Urami Kuzu Tsuyu ni Nuregime ( 恨葛露濡衣); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/28
Print Date: 06/1928?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫) in Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝); and Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Osamu Iesada (御家定), Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
as Kaizaka no Chûgi (貝坂の忠義), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hayabusa Sanji (早乗三次),
and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Murai Chôan (村井長庵) in Murai Chôan Takumi no Yaregasa
(村井長庵巧破傘).

OCTOBER 1928

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kinoshita Tôkichi (此下藤吉)

Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Gorôbei (五郎兵衛)

Plays: Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜淵双級巴); Chôryô Heisho no Tamamono (張良兵書賜);
Hizakurige (膝栗毛); Funa Benkei (船辨慶); [Miss Ruth Page Dance] Ruusu Pêji Joshi Buyô
(ルウス・ペエヂ女史舞踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/02/28
Print Date: 10/1928?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tachimen Yajirobé
(栃面屋弥次郎兵衛) in Hizakurige (膝栗毛); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tomomori No Rei
(知盛の霊) in Funa Benkei (船辨慶).

NOVEMBER 1928

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Saigo Takamori (西郷隆盛)

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Okubo Toshimichi (大久保利通)

Plays: Saigou to Ôkubo (西郷と大久保); On'na Shibaraku (女暫); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵); Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛); Kioi Jishi Minori no Iwai (勢獅子大典奉祝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Gozaemon (五左衛門興) and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in Ten no Amijima Shigure no
Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛)
in Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Maizuru (舞鶴) in On'na
Shibaraku (女暫).

JANUARY 1929

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑); Gion Sairei Shinkôki
(祇園祭礼信仰記); Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame
(色彩間苅豆); and Kami no Megumi Wagô no
Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/29
Print Date: 01/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The cover also depicts Ichimura Uzaemon
XV (市村羽左衛門) as Tatsugorô (辰五郎), Onoe
Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Mokuzô (杢蔵), and Morita
Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kisaburô
(喜三郎) in Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Kasane (かさね) in Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame
(色彩間苅豆); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)as Yuki-hime (雪姫)
in Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記).

MARCH 1929

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Hige no Ikyû (髭の意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/29
Print Date: [1929/03]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画春仙似顔集)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kôshirô VII first performed the role of Ikyû in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in February 1925.

APRIL 1929

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年)

Plays: Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Hana no Ueno Homare no Ishibumi (花上野譽碑);
Genji Eboshi (源氏烏帽子); Inazuma Zôshi (稲妻草子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/29
Print Date: 04/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Hôjô Ryônen (方丈了念), Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tsuchiya Naiki (槌谷内記), and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Uba Otsuji
(乳母お辻) in Hana no Ueno Homare no Ishibumi (花上野譽碑); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nagoya Sansan (名古屋山三) in Inazuma Zôshi (稲妻草子).

JUNE 1929

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Plays: Nishiyama Monogatari (西山物語); Yuki no Tokiwa (雪常磐); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Echigo no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Ryôkan to Komori (良寛と子守)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/29
Print Date: 06/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Yoriki Ishiko Bansaku (與力石子伴作) in
Echigo no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tokiwa Gozen (常磐御前; 常盤御前) in
Yuki noTokiwa (雪常磐); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ryôkan (良寛) in Ryôkan to
Komori (良寛と子守).

OCTOBER 1929

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tokiyori (時頼)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Dôgen (道元)

Plays: Dôgen to Tokiyori (道元と時頼); Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐); Sono Omokage Kijin Kagami
(其俤鬼人鏡); Kusatsu Uba-ga-mochi (草津姥ヶ餅)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/29
Print Date: 10/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Shinsuke (親助) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kuwanaya Tokubei (桑名屋徳兵衛) in Sono Omokage Kijin Kagami
(其俤鬼人鏡); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamamo no Mae (玉藻の前) in Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐).

NOVEMBER 1929

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ojô Kichiza (お嬢吉三)

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Obô Kichisa (お坊吉三)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Oshô Kichisa (和尚吉三)

Plays: Okumura Ioko (奥村五百子); Sesshû Gappô-ga-Tsuji (攝州合邦辻);
San'nin Kichisa Tomoe no Shiranami (三人吉三巴白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/29
Print Date: 11/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Otoku (おとく), Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as Gappô Dôshin (合邦道心), and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamate Gozen
(玉手御前) in Sesshû Gappô-ga-Tsuji (攝州合邦辻).

NOVEMBER 1934

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/34
Print Date: 09/05/35
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

APRIL 1935

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist:?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library

Note: This was a special performance. Also on the bill were Momijigari (紅葉狩), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪). The set design is unsigned and is probably not by Kiyotada.

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library

Note: This was a special performance. Also on the bill were Momijigari (紅葉狩), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪).

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Taira no Koremochi (平維茂)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sarashina-hime (更科姫), in reality Togakushi no Kijo
(戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library

Note: This was a special performance. Also on the bill were Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪).

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library

Note: This was a special performance. Also on the bill were Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪). The set design is unsigned and is probably not by Kiyotada.

MARCH 1936

Ichikawa Sanshô (市川三升; 市川三舛) as Ashikaga Tadayoshi (足利直義)

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Kataoka Nizaemon XII (片岡仁左衛門) as Kaoyo (顔世)

Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Takano Moronao (高野師直)

Matsumoto Koshiro VII (松本幸四郎) as Momoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)

Matsumoto Koshiro VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

? as ?

Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as En'ya Hangan (塩谷判官)

Kataoka Nizaemon XII (片岡仁左衛門) as Okaru (おかる)Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10/36
Print Date: 03/1936?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library

FEBRUARY 1937

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Atsumori (敦盛)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/37
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
*Personal Collection

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)

Play: Ya no Ne (矢の根)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/37
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
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

1941

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kimura Shigenari (木村重成)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
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
*Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role opposite Uzaemon XV three times
at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1935, April 1939, and October 1941.
One or more of those productions likely toured Osaka around those times.

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

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: 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
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: These actors performed their respective roles in a
production at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in January 1934.
That production likely toured Osaka around that time.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Konoshita Tôkichi (此下東吉)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Matsunaga Daizen (松永大膳)

Play: Kinkakuji (金閣寺, Act IV of
Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記)
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)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Uzaemon XV and Kôshirô VII performed their
roles together at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in February
1934. That production likely toured Osaka around
that time.

JUNE 1946

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII 松本幸四郎) (as
Benkei (弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/46
Print Date: 1950 or later
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩) (#30)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design. Kôshirô VII died on January 27, 1949
at age 80. He first played the role of Benkei in this play in
Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in April 1914. Although
Kôshirô VII's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in
June 1946, it is possible that Gakô based this print on one
of Kôshirô VII's prior performances.

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Benkei (弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/46
Print Date: 1952
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿その一) (#5)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kôshirô VII first played the role of Benkei in this play
in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in April 1914. Although
Kôshirô VII's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in June
1946, it is possible that Gakô based this print on one of
Kôshirô VII's prior performances.

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Benkei (弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/46
Print Date: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿その一) (#5)
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII first played the role of Benkei in this play
in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in April 1914. Although
Kôshirô VII's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in June
1946, it is possible that Gakô based this print on one of
Kôshirô VII's prior performances.