MEISAKU HIDARI KOGATANA
(銘作左小刀)

aka SHIKI NO HINA ASAKUSA HAKKEI (時翫雛浅草八景)
aka NISEKAKETE CHIKAI NO HORIMONO (盟約誓彫物)
aka KYÔ NINGYÔ (京人形)

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
 
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Hidari Jingorô (左甚五郎)
 
Plays: Kiheitai (奇兵隊); Ataka no Seki (安宅關); Matsudaira Chôshichirô (松平長七郎);
Narukami (鳴神); Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Benkei (弁慶) and Ichikawa Sumizô VI
(市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Yoshitsune (義経) in Ataka no Seki (安宅關); Bandô Jusaburô III
(阪東壽三郎; 坂東寿三郎) as Hirado Seizô (平戸清藏), Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Kano Gon'emon (河野権右衛門), and an unknown actor in Matsudaira Chôshichirô (松平長七郎); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Kumo Taema-hime (雲絶間姫) and Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Narukami Jônin (鳴神上人) in Narukami (鳴神).
 

           
Ôkabuki Engei Sugoroku (大歌舞伎 演藝双六)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection

8. Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
 
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?
                      

               
Nakamura Fukusuke (中村福助) as
Kyô Ningyô (京人形)

Play: Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum


 
 
 

   
    [Kyoto Doll]
    Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
 
    Dance: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
    Print Date: ?
    Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô
    (山川秀峰)
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    pochikuburo
    Series: [Ten Aspects of Dance]
    Buyô Jyû-shû no Uchi
    (舞踊十種之内)
    Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 
 

                     
    Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as 
    Hidari Jingorô (左甚五郎 )
      
    Nakamura Utaemon  VI (中村歌右衛門) as
    Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
           
    Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
    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 both of these actors in the same play at the
    same time.
 
 
 
 

       
        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)
        as Kyô Ningyô  (京人形)

        Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Gadô IV performed
        this role at least twice in
        Tokyo, at the Kabuki-za in
        November 1916 and at the
        Teikoku Gekijô  in December
        1919.  It is possible that one
        of those productions toured
        Osaka.