MODORI KAGO
(戻駕)

aka MODORI KAGO IRO NI AIKATA (戻駕色相肩)

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Naniwa no Jirosaku (浪花の次郎作)
 
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: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Naniwa no Jirosaku (浪花の次郎作)
 
Plays: Shizuka Gozen Furutsuka Engi (静御前古塚縁起); Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記);
Kishihime Matsukutsu Wakagami (岸姫松轡鑑); Modori Kago (戻籠); Kin'iro Oni  (金色鬼)/Gôruden
Monsutâ)（ゴールデン、モンスター）
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/14
Print Date: 06/1914?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koyama Hachirô Tomofusa (小山八郎朝房)
in Shizuka Gozen Furutsuka Engi (静御前古塚縁起); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Miuranosuke Yoshimura (三浦之助義村) in Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記); and Sawamura
Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as ? in an unknown play.
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); Noroi (呪); Kingo Hideaki (金吾秀秋); Modori Kago (戻駕)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/19
Print Date: 05/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Kagekatsu (景勝),  Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Jihizô (慈悲蔵), and  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Yokozô (横蔵)
in Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝).

                    
Plays: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年);
Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水); Modori Kago Iro Koi Aigata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/23
Print Date: 01/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mondo (主水) in  Shiraito
Mondo (白糸と主水); Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshioka] Kijirô (吉岡鬼次郎) and 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Okyô (お京) in Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki 
(鬼一法眼三略巻); and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as  Rokujô Shôshô Tadaaki (六條少将忠顕), 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年),  and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Narita Kosaburô Takashin (成田小三郎尭心) in Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年).
 
 
 
 

Plays: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水);
Modori Kago Iro Koi Aigata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/23
Print Date: 01/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Plays: Modori Kago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩); Chûshingura Nenjû Gyôji (忠臣蔵年中行事);
Tsuri On'na (釣女);  Sengokujidaishi no Ichipêji (戦国時代史の一頁); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記);
Rabu Tetsugaku (ラヴ哲学); Hikari to Iro (光と色) (dance)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/25
Print Date: 12/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
a Kamuro (禿)

Play: Modori Kago (戻駕)
Print Date: 09/27/42
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Tsuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 月の巻)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Azuma Yoshirô (吾妻與四郎; 吾妻与四郎)

Play:  Modori Kago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: I can find no record of Sadanji III performing this
role.  He did portray Yoshirô under his previous name of
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) at the Tokyo Gekijô in
April 1949.  It is possible that the painting study for this
print was done at that time, but with Sadanji III's
intervening name change prior to the publication of the
print, a decision was made to use Sadanji III's current name.  
Or perhaps the print was based on some performance that
Sadanji gave outside of Tokyo.  The print itself resembles a
photograph from a production at the Ichimura-za in
September 1915 when he performed the role under the
name of  Ichikawa Otora IV (市川男寅).
 
 
   

               
Bandô Yasosuke V (坂東八十助) as
a Kamuro (禿; かむろ)

Play: Modori Kago (戻駕)   
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: I can find no record of Yasosuke V performing this
role in Tokyo (or elsewhere).
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
a Kamuro (禿)
 
Play:  Modori Kago (戻駕)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI performed this
role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in
July 1924.