FUKUI MOHEI (福井茂兵衛)

03/16/1860 - 02/26/1930

Iwao Keizaburô (岩尾慶三郎) as
Umi Mikoto (海尊)
 
Fujisawa Asajirô (藤沢浅二郎) as
Gôno-kun (郷ノ君)
 
Mizuno Yoshimi (水野好美) as
Suruga (駿河)
 
Saori Keiichirô (小織桂一郎) as
Kataoka (片岡)
 
Shizuma Kojirô (静間小二郎) as
Kamei (亀井)
 
Play: Ataka no Seki Yoshitsune Mondô
(安宅関義経問答)
Performance Place: Torigoe-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/22/1892
Print Date: 12/01/1892
Artist: Utagawa Kokunimasa
(歌川小国政)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

  Kanaizumi Ushitarô (金泉丑太郎) as
  Benkei (弁慶)
 
  Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as
  Yoshitsune (義経)

Kimura Shûhei (木村周平) as
Togashi (富樫)
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 Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as
 Toppi Dai (突飛太)

        
        Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as
        Kudô Takeo (工藤猛夫)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        Play: [The Student's Crime]
        Shosei no Hanzai (書生之犯罪)
        Performance Place:  Torigoe-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 11/22/92
        Print Date: 12/1892
        Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
        Personal Collection
 

Shizuma Kojirô (静間小二) as
Senda Keiichi (千田桂一)
 
Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as
Komazawa Gôichi (駒沢剛一)
 
Kimura Shûhei (木村周平) as
Nyôbô [Wife] Okimi (女房お君)

Saori Keiichirô (小織桂一郎) as
Nishida Kôichi (西田巷一)
 
Terashima Kurajirô (寺嶋倉次郎) as
Ginta Kurasan (銀田倉三)
 
Taniguchi Kisaku (谷口喜作) as
Jiden Yoshinosuke (自田由之助)
 
Yano Kanjirô (矢野勘次郎) as
Yao Haini (?) (矢尾佩二)
 

MAY 1893       

Satô Toshizô (佐藤歳三) as
Shiki Hidari-heimon Masuyuki
(志貴左兵門倍行)
 
Fujii Ichirô (藤井一郎) as
[Widow Jissôin]
Koshitsu Jissōin (後室実相院)
 
Play: Kusunoki Masayuki (楠正行)
Performance Place: Azuma-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1893
Print Date: 05/1893?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: One reference lists this
production as having been performed
in June 1893, which suggests that it
opened in late May 1893.  It is
possible that the unknown figure is a
second rendition of Satô Toshizô
 
 
 
 

  ?  as ?
 
  Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as
  Kusunoki Sakingo Masayuki
  (楠左金吾正行)

OCTOBER 1893

Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as Shimizu Jirô (清水次郎)
 
Unknown as Child
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: Fukano-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/29/93
Print Date: 10/1893
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan  
 
Note: The bill consisted of Sengokusen Hokage Shirahama
(千石 船帆影白浜), Kaikishi (会来士), and Azuma Nairi (東內裡). 
This print could reflect any one of those plays.
 
 
 
 

MARCH 1894

Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as
Ôiso no Tora (大磯の虎)
 
Play: Meiji Tenichibo (治天一坊 )
Performance Place: Shinichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/29/1894
Print Date: 03/1894?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theater Museum
 
 
 
 

  Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as
  Matsudaira Kagemasa (松平景正)