NEZUMI KOMON HARUGI NO HINAGATA
(鼠小紋春着雛形)

aka NEZUMI KOMON HARU NO SHINGATA (鼠小紋東君新形)
aka NEZUMI KOMON AZUMA NO SHINGATA (鼠小紋吾妻新形)
 aka NEZUMI KOMON HARUGI NO SHINGATA (鼠小紋春着新形)
aka NEZUMI KOZÔ (鼠小僧)
aka NEZUMI KOMON (鼠小紋)

                
Plays:  Nezumi Komon Harugi no Hinagata  (鼠小紋春着雛形); Gion Sairei Shinkôki  (祇園祭礼信仰記);
Fûsen Nori Uwasa no Takadono (風船乗評判高閣)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/08/91
Print Date: 01/09/91
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
 
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Shikan IV (中村芝翫) as Matsunaga Daizen (松永大膳), Onoe
Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Konoshita Tôkichi (此下東吉), Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Yukihime (雪姫) in Gion Sairei Shinkôki  (祇園祭礼信仰記).
 
 
 

JANUARY 1901

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Yûjo Matsuyama (遊女松山)

Play: Nezumi Komon Harugi no
Hinagata (鼠小紋春着雛形)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/13/01
Print Date: 01/04/01
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

  Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
  Umeyama (梅山), in actuality Kôzô
  (幸蔵)

                
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Inaba Kôzô (稲葉幸蔵)
 
Plays: Zôho Tamamo-no-Mae (増補玉藻前); Nezumi Komon Harugi no Hinagata (鼠小紋春着雛形);
Noriaibune Ehô Manzai (乗合船恵方万歳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/13/01
Print Date: 01/15/01
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This cover also depicts  Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前) in Zôho
Tamamo-no-Mae (増補玉藻前).
 

               
[Sixth Generation Nezumi Kozô]
Rukudaime Nezumi Kozô (六代”目鼠小僧)
[Performing Arts Caricatures] Engei Fûshiga (演藝諷刺畫)

Play: Nezumi Kozô (鼠小僧)
Artist: Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤樂天)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Illustration to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 3, No. 11 (Oct. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The robber is presumably Onoe Kikugorô VI in a
regional performance. 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Inaba Kôzô (稲葉幸蔵) and
 
Onoe Kikujirô III  (尾上菊次郎) as 
Matsuyama (松山)
      
Play: Nezumi Komon Harugi no
Shingata (鼠小紋春着新形)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection