KUROTEGUMI KURUWA NO TATEHIKI
(黒手組曲輪達引)

aka SHINOBU-GA-OKA KOI NO KUSEMONO (忍岡戀曲者)
aka EDO ZAKURA KIYOMIZU SEIGEN (江戸櫻清水清玄)
aka KUROTEGUMI SUKEROKU (黒手組助六)

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曾我對面); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Tobaya Jishi (鳥羽屋獅子);
Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi (彦山權現誓助太刀); Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/16
Print Date: 01/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Sukeroku (助六)
 
Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Kôen Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/24
Print Date: 1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
 
 

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: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1979
Print Date: 05/1979
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (澤村宗十郎) as
Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)

Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/82
Print Date: 07/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 5)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 5
(第三期大首絵シリーズの5)
Personal Collection (#3/27)

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences I (01/1999).

                 
Reminiscences I (思い出 I)

Print Date:  01/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#15/72)

Note: 35 copies from the edition of 72 were never printed.  Given
the difficulty in photographing this print in view of its large size, I
have used the image on the Kôkei website in lieu of one of my
own numbered copy.  This print contains larger versions of the
following actors' faces (left to right starting at the top row):

1. Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as Tsurigane Gonsuke (釣鐘権助) in
Sakurahime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/1981).
2. Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (澤村宗十郎) as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo
(07/02/1982).
3. Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Kawashô, Act I of  Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島), Kabuki-za, Tokyo
(1979/01/1979).
4. Onoe Tatsunosuke I (尾上辰之助) as Naosuke Gonbê (直助権兵衛) in
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談),Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/02/1983).
5. Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景情) in Kagekiyo (景清), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/02/1984).
6. Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧) in
Yoshidaya (吉田屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1983).
7. Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉)/Byakko
(白狐) in Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/01/1986).
8. Kawarazaki Gonjurô III (河原崎権十郎) as Sashichi (佐七) in
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1987).
9. Nakamura Tomijûrô V (中村富十郎) as Kô no Moronô (高師直) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1986).
10. Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門) as Keyamura Rokusuke
(毛谷村六助) in Keya-mura (毛谷村), Act IX of Hikosan Gongen Chikai no
Sukedachi (彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1997).
11. Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門) as Sakuraya Koman (桜屋小万)
in Godairiki Koi no Fujime (五大力恋緘), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (09/01/1989).
12. Ichikawa Danshirô IV ( 市川段四郎) as Yasha Gorô (夜叉五郎) in
Jiraiya (児雷也), Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo (11/01/1992).
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/82
Print Date: 07/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 6)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 6
(第三期大首絵シリーズの6)
Personal Collection (#3/27)

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences II (01/2000).
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Monnosuke VII (市川門之助) as
Shinzô Shiratama (新造白玉)

Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/1989
Print Date: 09/1989
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VII (Design 6)]
Dainana-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 6
(第七期大首絵シリーズの6)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
Note: This design was used as the background for Kôkei's 2005
self-portrait print.
 
 

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Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Kinokuniya Bunzaemon (紀伊國屋文左衛門)

Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: I have been unable to find a performance
by Kanzaburô XVII in this role.
 

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
 
Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Sôjûrô VII performed this role in
Tokyo at the Teikoku Geikijô in January
1916, at the Kôen Gekijô in September 1924,
at the Teikoku Geikijô in April 1926, and
the Meiji-za in February 1931.