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).
 
 
 
 

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