Plays: Jûni Doki Kaikei Soga  (十二時會稽曽我); Sakigake Genpei Tsutsuji (魁源平躑躅);
Adesugata On'namaiginu (艶容女舞衣); Kumo no Ito Oyozume Banashi (蜘糸宿直噺)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/06
Print Date: 01/03/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Tonosama Kanji (殿様勘次); Ehon Taikôki  (絵本太功記); Kaji (借児);
Kumo no Ito Oyozume Banashi (蜘糸宿直噺)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/07/10
Print Date: 07/10/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Otogirisô (弟切草);  Kumo no Ito (蜘蛛糸); Ranchô (蘭蝶)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/11/12
Print Date: 05/12/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曾我狩場曙); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭禮信仰記);
Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森); Kumo no Ito Oyozume Banashi (蜘糸宿直噺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/16
Print Date: 06/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Play: Kumo no Ito (蜘蛛の糸)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Tokiwazu Bushi (常磐津節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
[Metamorphosis] Henka  (変化) 
[Spider Spirit) Kumo no Sei (蜘蛛の精)

Play: Kumo no Ito Azusa no Yumihari (蜘蛛絲梓弦)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery

Note: It is possible that the print depicts the Earth Spider
(Tsuchigumo) in Tsuchigumo (土蜘)

                   
[Pushing-Back] Oshimodoshi (押し戻し)
Sakata Shumenojô Kintoki (坂田主馬之丞金時) and
Usui Yukienojô Sadamitsu (碓井靭負之丞貞光)
 
Play: Kumo no Ito Azusa no Yumihari (蜘蛛絲梓弦)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

? as Usugumodayû (薄雲太夫) in
Kumo no Ito Azusa no Yumihari (蜘蛛絲梓弦) or a similar play
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Wan'ya Kyûbê (椀屋久兵衛) in
Wankyû Sue no Matsuyama (椀久末松山)
 
Tanpay (単平) as Sakuramaru (桜丸) in Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)

Print Date: ?
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Image courtesy of Dr. Osamu Nagai

Note: Ganjirô I starred in the premiere of Wan'ya Kyûbê at the Naka-za in Osaka in
March 1906.  He would later perform the role in Toyko at times when Nagai Seijirô
would have been active at the Shintomi-za in February 1913 and again in November
1920, though this print likely depicts some regional theatre performance.