NICHIREN SHÔNIN TSUJI SEPPÔ
(日蓮聖人辻説 法)

aka NICHIREN SHÔNIN (日蓮上人)


APRIL 1904

               

Play: Nichiren Shonin Tsujiseppô (日蓮聖人辻説法) 
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/021/04 
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 49 (May 1, 1904)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 




SEPTEMBER 1919

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Hiki Daigaku Kumamoto (比企大学熊本) or Daigaku Saburô (大学三郎)
 
Plays: On'na Narukami (女鳴神);  Ikka Zoku (一家族); Izumo no Okuni (出雲の阿國);
Nichiren Shônin Tsuji Seppô (日蓮聖人辻説法); Ranchô (蘭蝶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/31/19
Print Date: 08/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Sakuragawa Ranchô (桜川蘭蝶)
in Ranchô (蘭蝶); and Ichimura Kamezo III (市村亀蔵; 市村龜蔵) as Taemanosuke (當麻之助) in On'na
Narukami (女鳴神).
 





OCTOBER 1925

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nichiren (日蓮)

Play:  Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
 
 





Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hirano Saemon-no-jô (平ノ左衛門尉)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren (日蓮)
 
Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
in Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Saibôzu Nishizumi (斉坊主西住)
and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koume (小梅) in Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛).
 



 

OCTOBER 1935


Plays: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曽我狩場曙 ); Nichiren Shônin Tatsukuchi Hônan
(日蓮聖人 竜口法難); Shizuhata Obi (賤機帯); Mitsuningyô (三人形); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻); Genta Shigure (源太時雨)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/35
Print Date: 10/1935?
Artist:?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 



                    
Plays: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曽我狩場曙 ); Nichiren Shônin Tatsukuchi Hônan
(日蓮聖人 竜口法難); Shizuhata Obi (賤機帯); Mitsuningyô (三人形); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻); Genta Shigure (源太時雨)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/35
Print Date: 10/1935?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library