Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)

UTAGAWA KUNISADA III (歌川国貞)

aka Baidô Hôsai (梅堂豊斎); Baidô Kunimasa IV (梅堂国政); Kôchôrô Hôsai (香朝楼豊斎)

1919

JANUARY 1919

Onoe Kikugorò VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Funatsu Kôbê (舟津幸兵衛)

Play: Suitengû Megumi no Fukagawa
(水天宮利生深川)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/19
Print Date: 01/03/19?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
            Kinkanban Jingorô (金看板甚五郎)

            Play: Kinkanban Kyôkaku Hondana
            (金看板侠客本店)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 01/02/19
            Print Date: 01/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Arashi Kichisaburò VI (嵐吉三郎) as
            Shikon Daigorò (紫紺大五郎)

            Play: Kinkanban Kyôkaku Hondana
            (金看板侠客本店)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 01/02/19
            Print Date: 01/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

FEBRUARY 1919

Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Osono (おその)

Play: Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
(彦山権現誓助刀)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Sawamura Sônosuke I
            (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
            Osono (おその)

            Play: Hikosan Gongen Chikai no
            Sukedachi (彦山権現誓助刀)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/02/19
            Print Date: 02/1919?
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
            Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助)

            Play: Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
            (彦山権現誓助刀)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/02/1919
            Print Date: 02/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as
            Keyamura Rokusuke
            (毛谷村六助)

            Play: Hikosan Gongen Chikai
            no Sukedachi (彦山権現誓助劍)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/02/19
            Print Date: 02/1919?
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
            Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時)

            Play: Na mo Tachibana Homare no Ishikiri
            (名橘誉石切)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/08/1919
            Print Date: 02/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
            Matano Gorô (俣野五郎)

            Play: Na mo Tachibana Homare no Ishikiri
            (名橘誉石切)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/08/1919
            Print Date: 02/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

MARCH 1919

Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Note: This design was posthumously reissued
in 1922 in a slightly different color scheme
depicting the actor Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) in the role.

            Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as
            Sakuramaru (桜丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛)
            as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was posthumously
            reissued in 1922 in a slightly different
            color scheme depicting the actor Bandò
            Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) in the role.

            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
            Toneri Matsuômaru (舎人松王丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was post-humously
            reissued in 1922 in a slightly different
            color scheme depicting the actor
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
            as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in the role.

            Ichikawa Chûsha VII
            (市川中車) as
            Toneri Matsuômaru
            (舎人松王丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was post-
            humously reissued in 1922
            in a slightly different color
            scheme depicting the actor
            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as
            Matsuômaru (松王丸) in the
            role.

            Nakamura Ganjirô I
            (中村鴈治郎) as
            Michizane (道実)

            Play: Sugawara Denju
            Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
            Kakuju (覚寿)

            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

APRIL 1919

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Ume-no-Kata (梅の方)

Play: Shin Usuyuki Monogatari
(新薄雪物語)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Onoe Kikugorò VI (尾上菊五郎) as
            Sonobe Hyôe (園部兵衛)

            Play: Shin Usuyuki Monogatari
            (新薄雪物語)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/30/19
            Print Date: 04/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
            Saizaki Iga-no-Kami (幸崎伊賀守)

            Play: Shin Usuyuki Monogatari
            (新薄雪物語)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/30/19
            Print Date: 04/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) as
Atsumori (敦盛)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

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

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Katsura-hime (桂姫)

Play: Shuzenji Monogatari
(修禅寺物語; 修禪寺物語)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
            Yoriie (頼家)

            Play: Shuzenji Monogatari
            (修禅寺物語; 修禪寺物語)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/03/19
            Print Date: 04/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次)
as Yasha-ô (夜叉王)

Play: Shuzenji Monogatari
(修禅寺物語; 修禪寺物語)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Kawarasaki Gonjûrô II
(河原崎権十郎; 河原崎權十郎) as
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本無三四))

Play: Kodama Hibiki Denju Osamu Ryôtô
(谺響伝授乃両刀; 谺響傳授の兩刀)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/19
Print Date: 1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

MAY 1919

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Mitsuhide (光秀)

Play: Ehon Taikôki
(繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/19
Print Date: 05/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Note: This design was posthumously
reissued in a slightly different color
scheme when Chûsha VII reprised this
role at the Meiji-za in September 1922.

            Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)
            as Hisayoshi (久吉)

            Play: Ehon Taikôki
            (繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/03/19
            Print Date: 05/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Sawamura Sojuro VII (:沢村宗十郎) as
            Hatsugiku (初菊)

            Play: Ehon Taikôki
            (繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/03/19
            Print Date: 05/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
            Takechi Jûjirô (武智十次郎)

            Play: Ehon Taikôki
            (繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/03/19
            Print Date: 05/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

JUNE 1919

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Midaroku ( 弥陀六)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
            Kumagai Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was posthumously
            reissued in a slightly different color
            scheme when Kichiemon I reprised this
            role at the Shintomi-za in March 1922.

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

            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

JULY 1919

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Izumi no Saburò (泉の三朗)

Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô
(義経腰越状)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/19
Print Date: 07/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Note: Sadanji II also played this role in a
version of the play produced under the title
Goto Menuki (五斗目貫) at the Shintomi-
za in October 1917. It is possible that this
print depicts that performance instead.

            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
            Gotobê (五斗兵衛)

            Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô
            (義経腰越状)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/03/19
            Print Date: 07/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Ichikawa Sadanji II
            (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
            Hirata ** (平田**)

            Play: Kisogawa Jisuiki (木曽川治水記)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/03/19
            Print Date: 07/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

SEPTEMBER 1919

Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Onoe Kikugorô VI
            (尾上菊五郎) as
            Matsuômaru (松王丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denjù
            Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/06/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Ichikawa Sadanji II
            (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
            Fudesuke (筆助)

            Play: Hakone Reigen Izari no Adauchi
            (箱根霊験躄仇討)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/02/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Image courtesy of Artelino.com

            ^Note: A trimmed, damaged copy is in the
            Karl collection.

            Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
            Iinuma Katsugorô (飯沼勝五郎)

            Play: Hakone Reigen Izari no Adauchi
            (箱根霊験躄仇討)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/02/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
            Iinuma Katsugorô (飯沼勝五郎)

            Play: Hakone Reigen Izari no
            Adauchi (箱根霊験躄仇討)
            Performance Place: Meiji-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/02/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
            Takiguchi Ueno (滝口上野)

            Play: Hakone Reigen Izari no Adauchi
            (箱根霊験躄仇討)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/02/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Michitose (三千歳)
Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
(雪暮夜入谷畦道)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za,
Yokohoma
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as'
            Kaneko Ichinojô

            Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
            (雪暮夜入谷畦道)
            Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
            Performance Date: 09/06/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

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

            Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
            (雪暮夜入谷畦道)
            Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

DECEMBER 1919

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Chôgorô (長五郎)

Play: Setta Naoshi Chôgorô (雪駄直し長五郎)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/29/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection