MOCHIZUKI
(望月)

aka IMAYÔ MOCHIZUKI (今様望月)
aka SHINKYOKU MOCHIZUKI (新曲望月)

                
Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房)
 
Hanawaka (花若)

Play: Mochizuki (望月)
Print Date: 07/05/98
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#90]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 

 

                 
Plays: Miyakoôji Isamu Harugoma (都大路勇者春駒); Mochizuki (望月); Hanakawado Kioi no Manaita
(花川戸橋侠俎); Jûnidan  (十二段);  Hatsugasumi Iro mo Sumiyoshi (初霞彩住吉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/07/05
Print Date: 01/1905
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 

                 
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房)
 
Plays: Hiyoku no Tsuru Senzai Soga (比翼鶴千歳曽我); Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono 
(大杯觴酒戦強者); Shinkyoku Mochizuki (新曲望月); Kitsune Shizuka no Keshô Kagami (狐静化粧鏡);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/07
Print Date: 05/07/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I as Ii Kamon-no-Kami
Naotaka (井伊掃部頭直孝) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戦強者); Nakamura
Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前) in Kitsune Shizuka no Keshô Kagami (狐静化粧鏡); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Umegawa (傾城梅川) and Jitsukawa Enjirô I
(実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I as Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来).
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次)  as Ozawa no Gyôbu (小澤刑部)
 
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
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Nitta Yoshitoki (新田義時)
in Sokokura no Yu (底倉湯), and Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Ôishi Kuranosuke
(大石内蔵助) in the play of the same name.
 

                 
 
Plays: Shikorobiki (錣引); Tôdai Yawa (東台夜話); Mochizuki (i望月); Ekirei (駅鈴);
Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki (近頃河原の達引)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/20/12
Print Date: 09/20/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                
Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房)

Play: Mochizuki (望月)
Print Date: 10/1924
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [One Hundred Nô Plays]
Nôgaku Hyakuban (能楽百番) [#50]
*Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University
 


 

                
Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房)

Play: Mochizuki (望月)
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures] Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 4, #39
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 

                 
Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房) disguised as a lion dancer

Play: Mochizuki (望月)
Print Date: 01/1955
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: Noh Play Explanation and Stores Series 3
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

                
Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房)
 
Hanawaka (花若)

Play: Mochizuki (望月)
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Image courtesy of the Library of
Università Pontificia Salesiana