MEKURA NAGAYA UME NO KAGATOBI
(盲長屋梅加賀鳶)

                 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Matsuzô (松蔵)

Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as Okane (お兼)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Dôgen (道玄)

Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Yoshinoyama Yuki no Furugoto
(吉野山雪の故事); Modori Kago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/11/06
Print Date: 04/14/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

               

Play: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀 鳶)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/11/06
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 73 (May 1, 1906)
Image courtesy of the University of California 
 
 

               
[March at the Ichimura-za]
Sangetsu no Ichimuraza (三月の明市村座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10/12
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 142 (Apr. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the March bill were  Mekura Nagaya Ume no
Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Kishiyanagi Oboro Hitokage
(岸柳朧人影); Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
(彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱); and Dairi Bina Sannin Jôgo
(内裏雛三人上戸).
 
 

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kagatobi Gorôji (加賀鳶五郎次)

Play: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 1920
Artist: Yamamura Koka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
 
 

               
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kagatobi Gorôji (加賀鳶五郎次)

Play: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 06/01/27
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei to Eiga (演藝と映画), Vol. 2, No. 6
(June 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a lithographic reproduction of a 1920 woodblock print by
Kôka.  Matsusuke IV reprised this role at the Ichimura-za in Tokyo in
July 1924 and perhaps subsequently performed this role regionally,
which might explain why it was included in this magazine.
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Gorôji (雷五郎次)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) as Minosuke (巳之助)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Umeyoshi (梅吉)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Banjaku Ishimatsu (磐石石松)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Dôgen (道玄)
  
Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Sesshû Gappô-ga-Tsuji (州合邦辻);
Kamakura Bushi (鎌倉武士)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ôgushi Jirô (大串次郎) in
Kamakura Bushi (鎌倉武士); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamate Gozen (玉手御前) in Sesshû
Gappô-ga-Tsuji (州合邦辻).
 
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Tenjinmachi Umekichi (天神町梅吉)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Gorôji (五郎次)
 
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Kinnosuke(己之助)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as  
Takegaki Dôgen (竹垣道玄)
 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Iseya Yohei (伊勢屋与兵衛)
 
Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume-ga-Kagatobi
(盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Iromoyô Chotto Karimame
(色彩間苅豆); Modorikago Iro ni Aikata
(戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/06//24
Print Date: 0706//24
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Kasane (かさね) in Iromoyô
Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆).
 
 
 

Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Kishiyanagi Oboro Hitokage
(岸柳朧人影);  Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆); Nikudan Sanyûshi (肉弾三勇士)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/06/32
Print Date: 03/1932?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Kishiyanagi Oboro Hitokage
(岸柳朧人影); Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆); Nikudan Sanyûshi (肉弾三勇士)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/06/32
Print Date: 03/1932?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library