KURUWA BUNSHÔ
(廓文章)

aka YOSHIDAYA (吉田屋)
aka YÛGIRI IZAEMON (夕ぎり伊左衛門)
aka YÛGIRI NAGORI NO SHOGATSU (夕霧名残の正月)
aka YÛGIRI AWA NO NARUTO (夕霧阿波鳴門)

                
Plays:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壷坂霊験記);
Mikazuki (三日月); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/23/03
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Play: Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助); Sokokura no Yu (底倉湯); Imayô Mochizuki (今様望月);
Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/21/09
Print Date: 02/27/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

[Costume Competition Sugoroku] Ishô Kei Nigao Sugoroku (衣裳競似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/21/11
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).
 

 
25. Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
                     
Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Print Date: 10/21/11
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
 
 
 
 

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎 [sic: 中村鴈治郎]) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
 
Play: Yûgiri Izaemon (夕ぎり伊左衛門)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

                 
 
Plays: Chukô Shigure no Matsu (忠孝時雨松); Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記); Soga Kyôdai (曾我兄弟);
Osaragi Kuyô (大佛供養); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/03/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (伊佐衛門)

Play: Yûgiri Izaemon (夕ぎり伊左衛門)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/18
Print Date: 03/1918
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #8
^Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Taikôki Chôsen no Maki (太閤記朝鮮之巻); Shin Asagao Nikki (新朝顔日記); Ôsakazuki Shusen
no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戰強者); Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/18
Print Date: 12/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

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

Yûgiri (夕霧)

Play: Yûgiri Awa no Naruto (夕霧阿波鳴門)
Date: c. 1922-1923
Artist: Shima Seien (島成園)
Series: Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu Furoku Mokuhan
(大近松全集 付録木版)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Hosokawa Chi Daruma (細川血達摩); Imoseyama Michiyuki (妹背山道行);
Honganji Engi (本願寺縁起); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Horikawa Youchi (堀河夜討);
Yûgiri Izaemon (夕ぎり伊左衛門); Katsudô Kyô Jidai (活動狂時代);
Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/1927?]
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 

                   
[1928 Calendar] Showa San Kotobuki Tatsu Nichiyô Kagami (昭和三寿辰日曜鑑)
 
January: Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致) and Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成) in a
Sogamono such as
Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)
February: ?
March: Ōtomo Kuronushi (大伴黒主) in Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪關扉)
April:  Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
May:  Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
June:   Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七) in Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七)
July: possibly Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平) and Okura (お軽) in  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
August: ?
September: ?
October:  Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
November: Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) in Shibaraku (暫)
December: Fujiya Izaemon (伊佐衛門) in Kuruwa Bunshô Yoshidaya
(廊文章吉田屋; 廓文章  吉田屋)

Print Date: 01/1928
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Magazine: New Year's Appendix to Engei Shashin (演芸写真), Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan. 1928)
Medium: Machine printing

Note:  Hasui designed 34 machine-printed covers for Engei Shashin (and its precedessor
Engei Shashin Chô) between October 1925 and July 1928.  Many of these issues contained
machine-printed forntispieces.  Since they were offset printed, they are outside the scope
of this website.  An exception, however, has been made for this calendar, which appears to
be unique in the Hasui canon.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉)
as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: 06/1947
Print Date: 06/1947?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: It is possible that this print
reflects a performance at the Tokyo
Gekijô in November 1946 or the
Minami-za in Kyoto in December
1946.
 
 
 
 

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Kamoshita Chôko,
Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen, Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo,
Shimizu Miezô, and Mori Shunchô.  The panels by Chiaki follow.
 
 
 

                   
Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章), Panel 2 of Kobikichō Kabuki-za
Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/02/54
Print Date: 12/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 

                   
Izaemon (伊左衛門)

Keisei Yûgiri (傾城夕霧)

Play:   Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu IV (長谷川貞信)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #10
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

               
Kataoka Takao (片岡孝夫) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play:Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Toyko
Performance Date: 06/04/76
Print Date: 07/1981
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal Collection (#85/200)

Note: Takao also performed this role at the Minami-za, Kyoto, in March
1977.
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧)

Play: Yoshidaya (吉田屋) [Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/83
Print Date: 01/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 13)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 13
(第三期大首絵シリーズの13)
Personal Collection (#15/27)

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences I (01/1999).  2 copies from the edition
of  27 were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 
 

                 
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 (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).
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Yoshidaya (吉田屋) [Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/83
Print Date: 01/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 14)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 14
(第三期大首絵シリーズの14)
Personal Collection (#3/27)

Note: 3 copies from the edition of  27 were destroyed by the artist.

               
? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: May 9-26, 1995
Print Date: 1995
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Toribeyama Shinjû
(鳥辺山心中), Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章), Yowa Nasake Ukina
no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛),  and Yashiki Musume (屋敷娘). 
It starred Nakamura Baigyoku V (中村梅玉), Kataoka Gatô V
(片岡我當; 片岡我当), Sawamura Tôjûrô II (沢村藤十郎;
 澤村藤十郎), Nakamura Matsue VI (中村松江), Nakamura
Tôzô VI (中村東蔵), Kataoka Roen VI (片岡芦燕), Kataoka
Shinnosuke (片岡**), Nakamura Tamatarô (中村智太郎), and
Kamimura Kichiya VI (上村吉弥; 上村吉彌).
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Yoshidaya (吉田屋) [Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/96
Print Date: 05/1996
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits XI (Design 2)]
Daijûichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 2
(第十一期大首絵シリーズの2)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
Note: A smaller, simplified version of the actor's
face was also used on a 1998 holiday card.
 
 
 
 

                 
1998 Holiday Card with portraits of
Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫)

Print Date: c. 01/01/98
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
Note: The holiday card uses reduced,
simplified images of Kataoka Takao
(left to right starting at the top row)
from the following prints:
 
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in
Sukeroku (助六), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/83);
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門) in
Yoshidaya (吉田屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/96);
Tobizu Matsukichi (鳶頭松吉) in
Omatsuri (お祭り), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/94);
Tamiya lemon (民谷伊右衛門) in
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/02/83);
Tsurigane Gonsuke (釣鐘権助) in
Sakurahime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/81);
Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門) in
Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Act VII of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵),
Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/88).
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XV (片岡仁左衛門) as
Fujiya Izaemon (伊佐衛門)

Play: Kuruwa bunshô Yoshidaya
(廊文章吉田屋; 廓文章  吉田屋)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/13
Print Date: 2013
Artist: Tachihara Inuki (立原位貫)
Personal Collection (edition size unknown)

Note: If this print was made before the May 2013 Kabuki-za production,
then it would have been based on Nizaemon XV's performances at the
Kabuki-za in March 2008 or April 2009.
 
 
 
 

 
Nakamura Ganjirô VI (中村鴈治郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #2]
Personal Collection

 
Nakamura Ganjirô VI (中村鴈治郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

       
        Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII
        (片岡仁左衛門) as
        Fujiya Izaemon
        (藤屋伊左衛門))

        Play: Kuruwa Bunshô
        (廓文章)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Nizaemon XI performed
        this role four times in Tokyo
        between February 1906 and
        November 1922.  Nizaemon XII
        performed this role n Tokyo in
        February 1942.  Presumably one
        of those productions toured in
        Osaka.
 
 
 
 

                 
Oiran Yûgiri (おいらん夕霧)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Print Date:  ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
 
Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role
twice in Tokyo, at the Shintomi-za in
February 1912  and again in November
1913.  He also played the role at the
Naka-za in Osaka in November 1921,
and presumably at other venues outside
of Tokyo over the years.
 
 
 

               
Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
 
Play:  Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Kan'ya XIII  performed this role
in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in December
1918.

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as Izaemon (伊左衛門) 
           
Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII performed this role nine times between
1952 and 1987.