MOMIJIGARI
(紅葉狩)

aka SHINKYOKU MOMIJIGARI (新曲紅葉狩)

                 
 
Plays: Yo ni Hibiku Taiko no Isahoshi (世響太鼓功); Momijigari (紅葉狩); Genpei Nunobiki no Taki
(源平布引滝); Nanitaka Keian Taiheiki (名高慶安太平記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/09/06
Print Date: 09/09/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

           
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵); Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/14/07
Print Date: 11/14/07
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Seichû Yoshiomi-roku (誠忠義臣録); Ya-no-Ne (矢の根); Ansei Kurofune Banashi (安政黒船話);
Momijigari (紅葉狩); Ômisoka (大晦日)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/09/10
Print Date: 11/11/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                   

Plays: Ansei Kibun Tsukuda no Yoarashi
(安政奇聞佃夜嵐); Momijigari (紅葉狩);
Takubê Jôshi (宅兵衛上使)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/15/14
Print Date: 09/15/14
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Shikorobiki (錣引); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡);
Shûshin no Oni (執心の鬼); Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/26/15
Print Date: 11/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Momijigari (紅葉狩);
Kiyari Ondo Mutsuki no Nigiwai (木遣音頭睦月賑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/20/16
Print Date: 01/1916?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山舊錦繪); Uishiraga (初白髪);
Momijigari (紅葉狩); Mieidô Shinjû (御影堂心中); Azuma Bune (浅妻舟); Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山舊錦繪); Uishiraga (初白髪);
Momijigari (紅葉狩); Mieidô Shinjû (御影堂心中); Azuma Bune (浅妻舟); Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Momijigari (The She-Devil Enjoying Scarlet Maple-Leaves)
(紅葉狩鬼女の隈)

Role: Kijo (鬼女)
Play: Shinkyoku Momijigari (新曲紅葉狩)
Print Date: 12/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 12, No. 60
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/33
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#14)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Baikô VI died on November
8, 1934 at age 65.  He first played the role of Togakushi
no Kijo in this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1903.
Although Baikô VI's final Tokyo appearance in this role
was in October 1933, it is possible that Gakô based this
print on one of Baikô VI's prior performances.
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/33
Print Date: 1953
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#9)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Baikô VI first played the role of Togakushi no Kijo in
this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1903.  Although
Baikô VI's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in
October 1933, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Baikô VI's prior performances.

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist:?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
Note: This was a special performance.  Also on the bill were Momijigari (紅葉狩), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪).   The set design is unsigned and is probably not by Kiyotada.
 
 
 

                    
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
Note: This was a special performance.  Also on the bill were Momijigari (紅葉狩), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪). 
 

Plas: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
Note: This was a special performance.  Also on the bill were Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪).  
 
 
 

                    
Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/10/35
Print Date: 04/1935?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki artwork
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
Note: This was a special performance.  Also on the bill were Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧), Shinpan Utazaimon ((新版歌祭文), and Shima Chidori Tsuki
no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪).   The set design is unsigned and is probably not by Kiyotada.
 

                   
October (10月): [Demon of Mt. Togaksuhi]
Togakushiyama  no Oni (戸隠山の鬼 )

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Print Date: 1950
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: [Calendar of Kabuki Actors] Kabuki Sugata-goyomi
(歌舞伎姿暦)
^Personal Collection
 
 

                 
Nakamura Fukusuke VIII (中村福助) as
Yamagami (山神)


Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1982
Print Date: 05/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 1)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第三期大首絵シリーズの1)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (村歌右衛門) as
Togakushiyama no Kijo (戸隠山の鬼女)


Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1982
Print Date: 05/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 2)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 2
(第三期大首絵シリーズの2)
Personal Collection (#6/27)

Note: 1 copy from the edition of 27 was destroyed by the artist.

                 
[Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女) and
Taira no Koremochi (平維茂))]
Momijigari (紅葉狩)
 
Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Print Date: 1996
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
Image courtesy of the Asian Collection Internet Auction
 
 

[Princess Sarashina (更科), in reality Togakushi no Kijo
(戸隠の鬼女)] Kabuki - Maple Viewing (紅葉狩)
Ex Libris Connie Stumpel
 
Dance: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Print Date: 08/2018
Artist: Hamanishi Katsunori (浜西勝則)
Medium: Mezzotint
Personal Collection
 
 
 

               
Kijo (鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

                 
Yamagami (山神)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

                   
Sarashina-hime (更科姫)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Date: ?
Artist: Hiratsuka Akio (平塚昭夫)
Medium: Ex Libris stencil print
Personal Collection

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Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Princess Sarashina (更科),
in reality Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Woodblock printed magazine print
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI performed this role in Tokyo
multiple times between 1906 and 1941.  Based on
similar magazine prints by Chikamine, this print
most likely reflects Kikugorô VI's performance at
the Shintomi-za in February 1922,  Ichimura-za in
October 1922, or at the Ichimura-za in Febraury
1927.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

       
        Togakushiyama  no Oni
        (戸隠山の鬼 ) [October]
    
        Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
        Series: Shibai Mitate
        Jūni-Kagetsu
        (芝居見立十二ヶ月)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

           
            Sarashina-hime (更科姫)
 
            Dance: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô
            (山川秀峰)
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochikuburo
            Series: [[Ten Aspects of Dance]
            Buyô Jyû-shû no Uchi
            (舞踊十種之内)  Vol. 1
            Personal Collection
 
            Note: My copy of this pochiburo
            lacks the series title on the
            back and may technically
            belong to this series.
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次;  市川左團次) as
Koremochi (維茂)
 
Play:  Momijigari (紅葉狩)
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:  Sadanji II performed this role
four times in Tokyo between September
1906 and September 1925.