MODORIBASHI
(戻橋)

                 
Plays:  Utsunomiya ni Shiki no Tsuri Yogi (宇都宮紅葉釣衾); Morodoribashi (戻橋);
Oatsurae Kariganezome (御誂雁金染)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/13/04
Print Date: 10/13/1904
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kagekiyo (景清); Sangokubusô Hisago no Gunbai (三国無双瓢軍扇); Modoribashi (戻橋);
Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑); Shinoda-zuma (信田妻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/12/08
Print Date: 11/13/08
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                   
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII as Watanabe no Tsuna (渡邊綱)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Demon of Mount Atago (disguised as Sayuri (小百合)
 
Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/13
Print Date: 03/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
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Note: Also on the bill were Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺), Ishida Mitsunari
(石田三成), and Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵).
 
 

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Sayuri (小百合)

Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/18
Print Date: 04/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)  #9
Print Date: 04/1918?
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Miyajima no Danmari (宮島だんまり); Hikozaemon Musashi Abumi  (彦左衛門武蔵鐙);
Modoribashi (戻橋); Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami  (辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/18
Print Date: 04/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
Plays: Kaikai no Jyokotoba (開會の序詞); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略絵巻);
Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺); Takatoki (高時); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛); Ehon Taikôki  (繪本太閤記); Modoribashi (戻橋); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/28-30/21
Print Date: 12/1921?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri  (樓門五三桐); Takatoki (高時); Chiyoda Ninjô (千代田刃傷);
Modoribashi (戻橋); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/22
Print Date: 03/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Sayuri (小百合)

Play:  Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/25
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#4)
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI first played the role of Sayuri in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-za in October 1904.  Depending on the precise
publication date of this print, it is possible that Shunsen
modeled this print after one of Baikô VI's performances
at the Teikoku Gekijô in March 1913, April 1918, or
April 1922.
 
 
 
 

Plays: Ookurakyô (大蔵卿); Modoribashi (戻橋); Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門);
Futaribakama (二人袴)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/25
Print Date: 06/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

               
Demon of Mount Atago

Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Print Date: 11/15/25
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

 
Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Tokiwazu Bushi (常磐津節)
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Plays:   Byakkotai (白虎隊); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻);  Modoribashi (戻橋);
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/01/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko,
Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen, Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, and
Shimizu Miezô.  A panel by Mori follow
 
 
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Sayuri (小百合) and Watanabe no Tsuna (渡邊綱)
 
Play: Modoribashi (戻橋), Panel 5 of Kobikichō Kabuki-za
Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Mori Shunchô (森 春鳥)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                   
[Modori Bridge] Modoribashi (戻り橋)
Watanabe no Tsuna (渡邊綱) and the demon of Mount Atago
Play: Modoribashi (戻り橋)
Print Date: 1969
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 
 

                 
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Play: ?
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 5-21, 1994
Print Date: 1994
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of  Kuzu-no-Ha (葛の葉)
[Act IV of Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑),
Meoto Dôjôji (男女道成寺), Kôjô (口上), Hana no Ueno
Homare no Ishibumi (花上野誉碑), and Modoribashi (戻橋).
It starred Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫), Ichikawa Sadanji
IV (市川左団次; 市川左團次), Sawamura Tôjûrô II
(沢村藤十郎;  澤村藤十郎), Nakamura Hashinosuke III
(中村橋之助), Nakamura Fukusuke IX (中村福助), Ichimura
Kakitsu IX (市村家橘), and Ichikawa Otora VI (市川男寅).
 
 

                 
[Watanabe no Tsuna (渡邊綱) and Kijo (鬼女)]
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Print Date: 1995 [Another source dates this to 1996]
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
Image courtesy of the Asian Collection Internet Auction
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi  (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)  as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) 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)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)  as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi  (鏡獅子) and similar plays

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)

Title:  Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
 

                 
Demon of Mount Atago

Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
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Mikamiyama (三上山 )
Demon of Mount Atago (disguised as Sayuri (小百合))

Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date:  ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Shinko Engeki Jûsshu no Uchi (新古演劇十種の内)]
 
 
 
  

 

                 

Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune
(鳥居忠宗)
Series: [Collection of
Ten New and Old Plays]
Shinko Engeki
Jûsshu (新古演劇十種)

Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助)
as Kijo (鬼女)
 
Play:  Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Fukusuke V performed this role
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in December
1925.

       
        Demon of Mount Atago
 
        Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Kumadori (隈取)
        Personal Collection