KAMI NO MEGUMI WAGÔ NO TORIKUMI
(神明恵和合取組)

aka MEGUMI NO KENKA (め組の喧嘩)

                 
Plays:  Jiraiya Gonichi Monogatari (児雷也後日物語); Wada Gassen Onna Maizuru (和田合戦女舞鶴);
Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (奥州白石噺); Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/31/04
Print Date: 01/03/1904
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組の辰五郎)

Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no
Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #1]
Personal Collection

Note: This print is not signed, but
the artist of certain other pochibukuro in
the set has been identified as Fujisawa,
and a signed postcard version exists.
 
 
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門 ) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
 
Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組).  
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/29
Print Date: 01/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The seller atrributed the authorship to
Kiyotada IV.  Also on the bill were Sugawara
Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑), Gion
Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記), and Iro Moyô
Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆). 
 
 
 
   

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門 ) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1941
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#3)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Uzaemon XV first played the role of Tatsugorô in this
play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in January 1911.  Although
Uzaemon XV's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in
January 1941, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Uzaemon XV's prior performances.
 
 
 

                 
Hassaku (八朔)

Play: Kami no Wagô Megumi no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組)
Print Date: 2003
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 17)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Tatsugorô (辰五郎)

Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô
no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed
this role seven times in Tokyo
between January 1911 and
January 1941.  Presumably
one of those productions toured
in Osaka.
 
 
 
 

   
    Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
    as Tatsugorō (辰五郎)

    Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô
    no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
    Performance Place: ?
    Performance Date: ?
    Print Date: ?
    Artist: ?
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    matchbook cover
 
    Note: Kikugorô VI first per-
    formed this role in Tokyo at
    the Ichimura-za in January
    1909.  His final performance
    in Tokyo was at the Tokyo
    Gekijô in January 1948.  

       
        Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
        as Tatsugorô (辰五郎)
 
        Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô
        no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
       
        Note: Kikugorô VI performed this role
        in Tokyo nine times between January
        1909 and January 1948.  Kikugorô VII
        performed the role in Tokyo five times
        between January 1987 and May 2007.

? as Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
 
Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
           
Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Onoe Shôroku II performed this role 8 times since 1948, the
last time being at the Kokuritsu Gekijô in January 1971.
 

                 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kisan (璣山)
Personal Collection