NANATSU MEN
(七つ面)

                   
Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: 01/1916
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print was included in Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan. 1916) and may have been issued
separately as a stand-alone print around the same time.  It
was also published as part of a complete set in January 1916.
A copy of the Engei Gahô version is in the Karl collection. 
 
 
 

               
Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Kaneko Saburô (金子三郎)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban Gajô (歌舞伎十八番画帖)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Nagori no Hoshi Zukiyo (名残の星月夜); Chiriyuku Hana Sannin Warai (散花三人笑);
Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森); Shin Nanatsumen ( 新七ツ面)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/03/20
Print Date: 05/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani  Library
 
 
 

                 
Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: 04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection

               
Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: 08/01/52
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 2, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
*Personal Collection (#114)
 

               
Gagoze Akaemon
(元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: 01/23/91
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi
(山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #3
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
[Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)] Iwami Nanatsumen Peony (石見七つ面　牡丹)
/
[Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)]
Iwami Nanatsumen Azalea (石見七つ面　つつじ)
 
Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: 2013
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 10)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo
 
 

                   
Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Series: Kouta Kabuki Jûhachiban (小唄 歌舞伎十八番)
Medium: lithograph or collotype
Personal Collection

Note: The original Shinsui painting upon which this print
is based is dated 1961, so the print would have to be made
on or after that date.  Seeing as the prints were accompanied
by a cassette tape of kouta music, the prints likely date to
the late sixties at the earliest and more likely the 1970s. 

                 
Gagoze Akaemon
(元興寺赤右衛門)

Play: Nanatsu Men
(七つ面)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban
(歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

[Kabuki Jûhachiban  (歌舞伎十八番)] Sugoroku

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Some of the panels bear a passing resemblance to the small size Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番) prints Ota Gakô produced in 1931, but I do not feel that the resemblance
is sufficiently strong as to conclusively attribute the print to Ota.

            
            Gagoze Akaemon (元興寺赤右衛門)

            Play: Nanatsu Men (七つ面)Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?