KUROZUKA
(黒塚)

                 

Play: Kurozuka (黒塚)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #75
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Tsukurimono: Hut thatched with brushwood. Waku-kasewa: Spinning wheel. Moon (the circle
at top left): Depicts an autumn scene with a skull. It says in the play, "The ear of silver grass is
''growing in fall and waiting for the moon at night."
 
 

                 

Play: Kurozuka (黒塚)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #76
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Akagashira: Red wig. In Kanze school, shirogashira (white wig) is used sometimes. Oishiba:
Firewood Nochi-shite carries on her back. Uchizue: Thin stick. About 60 cm long, with a cross bar at
the end. Zukin: Hood. Juzu: Buddhist prayer beads. Kumotorikata: Cloud-shaped background depicts
the koshimaki pattern.

 
 
 
 

               
[Village Woman/Female Ogre]
Mura no Josei/Kijo (村の女性/鬼女)
 
Play: Kurozuka (黒塚)
Print Date: 01/25/30
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures]
Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 1, #15
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Plays:  Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚); Kurozuka (黒塚); Shutsujin Emaki (出陣絵巻);
Tôkyô no Mukashi Banashi (東京の昔話)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/02/32
Print Date: 10/1932?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

Plays:  Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚); Kurozuka (黒塚); Shutsujin Emaki (出陣絵巻);
Tôkyô no Mukashi Banashi (東京の昔話)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/02/32
Print Date: 10/1932?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as
Adachi-ga-hara no Kijo (安達原の鬼女)

Play: Kurozuka (黒塚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/87
Print Date: 09/1987
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Figures of the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Roku Sugata
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六姿)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as
Iwate (岩手) [Kijo (鬼女)]

Play: Kurozuka (黒塚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/95
Print Date: 07/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Ennosuke - Kurozuka (猿之助 - 黒塚)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#5/100)