KATAOKA NIZAEMON XI (片岡仁左衛門)
1857 - 10/16/1934

aka KATAOKA GATÔ III (片岡我当)

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Sendô Shichirôji (船頭七郎次)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康)

Kataoka Gatô III (片岡 我當) as Nozawa Yajûrô (野沢弥十郎)
 
Play: Matsu no Sakae Chiyoda no Shintoku (松栄千代田神徳)
Performance Place: Kabukii-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/17/03
Print Date: 10/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 

   
    Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Nyôbô Omatsu (女房おまつ)

    Kataoka Gatô  III (片岡 我當) as Yorozuya Sukeroku (萬屋助六)

    Onoe Baikô VI (尾上 梅幸) as Tayû Agemaki (太夫揚巻)

    Play: Kamiko Jitate Ryômen Kagami (紙子仕立両面鑑)
    Performance Place/: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
    Performance Date: 10/17/03
    Print Date: 10/1903
    Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
    Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 

Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Nyôbô Tonami (女房戸浪)

Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place/: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 

  Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
  Matsuômaru (松王丸)

   Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵) as
   Shundô Genba (春堂玄蕃)
 

       
        Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
        Kanzeon Keshin (観世音化身)

       

        Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki
        (壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 11/21/03
        Print Date: 11/1903
        Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
        Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
        Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 
 

  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
  Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)

  Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
  Sawaichi (沢市)

Ichikawa Komazô VIII
(市川高麗蔵) as
Fudôyama Hidegorô
(不動山秀五郎)

Play: Mikazuki (三日月)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/10/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Central Metropolitan Library
 
 
       

  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
  Nyôbô Okiku (女房お菊)
 

Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
Mikazuki Jirokichi (三日月治郎吉)

Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我當; 片岡我当) as
Yodogimi (淀君) and
Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元)

Play: Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu
(沓手鳥孤城落月)
Performance Place: Kado-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 05/13/05
Print Date: 05/1905
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Although attributed to Sadanobu II, this print is
possibly an early print by Sadanobu III.
 
 
 
 

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kajiwara Genta Kagesue (梶原源太景季)
           
Play: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記; ひら仮名盛衰記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Oda Ôi/Oda Tasui  (小田大炊)
 
Play: Kagamiyama Chigusa no Nishiki
(鏡山千草錦) [Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/14
Print Date: 11/14/14
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #1]
Personal Collection
 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Yojirô (與次郎; 与次郎)

Play: Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki
(近頃河原の達引) [Horikawa (堀川)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Nippon Daemon (日本駄右衛門)
 
Ichikawa Sumizo VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Tadanobu Rihei (忠信利平)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;  市川左團次) as   
Nangô Rikimaru (南郷力丸)

Nakamura Matagorô I (中村又五郎;  中村叉五郎)
as Akaboshi Jûzaburô (赤星十三郎)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)
 
Play: Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪; 辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Ishii Hakutei (石井柏亭)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao) 
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

           
            Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
            Nippon Daemon (日本駄右衛門)
 
            Play: Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
            (弁天娘女男白浪; 辨天娘女男白浪)
            Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/15
            Print Date: 06/1915?
            Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
            Personal Collection

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as
Daimonjiya Bantô Gonpachi
(大文字屋番頭権八)

Play: Kamiko Jitate Ryômen Kagami
(紙子仕立両面鑑)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo,
Performance Date: 06/05/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Ishii Hakutei (石井柏亭)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao) 
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Furuteya Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛)

Play: Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya
(櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Sano Genzaemon (佐野源左衛門)
           
Play: Yûshoku Kamakurayama (有職鎌倉山)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/17
Print Date: 05/1917?
Artist: Baidô Kunihide (梅堂国秀)
Series: Shin Kyogen (新狂言) #4
Personal Collection
 
 
 
  

                
                Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
                Yamazaki Jôkan (山崎浄閑)
           
                Play: Nebiki no Kadomatsu (壽門松)
                Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 05/03/17
                Print Date: 05/1917?
                Artist: Baidô Kunihide (梅堂国秀)
                Series: Shin Kyogen (新狂言) #5
                Personal Collection
  

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Sakura Sôgo (佐倉宗吾)
            
Play: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/04/18
Print Date: 10/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection

            
            Kataoka Nizaemon XI
           (片岡仁左衛門) as
            Sakura Sôgo (佐倉宗吾)
 
            Play: Sakura Giminden
            (佐倉義民伝)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 10/04/18
            Print Date: 10/1918?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection 
 
 
 
          

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
as [Heisaku of Numazu] Numazu no
Heisaku (沼津の平作)
       
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
Musume Oyone  (娘お米)

Play: Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 11/03/1917
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
 
 

       
        Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
        as ?

        Kataoka Hajime (片岡一) as
        Shibakari Otome (柴刈乙女)
       
        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as ?

        Play(s): ?; Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
        Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
        (伊賀越道中双六); ?
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/03/1917
        Print Date: 11/1917?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
 
        Note: This was Kataoka Hajime's first
        stage appearance.
 
 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Moronô (師直)
          
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Image courtesy of Tuula Moilanen

               
                Kataoka Nizaemon XI
                (片岡仁左衛門) as
                Ôboshi Yuranosuke
                (大星由良之助)

                Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
                (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 11/01/18
                Print Date: 11/28/18
                Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
                Series: [Fujisawa Print Set #2]
                Personal Collection

               
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakiemon (柿右衛門)

Play: Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/19
Print Date: 1920
Aritst: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Note: Nizaemon XI also performed this role at the Meiji-za in January
1917.  It is possible that this print reflects that performance.

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Sukeemon (紙子仕立両面鑑)
 
Play: Kamiko Jitate Ryômen Kagami
(紙子仕立両面鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/08/20
Print Date: 06/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as 
Mo’un Kokushi (蒙雲國師; 蒙雲国師)
 
Play: ?
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
        
Play: Chûshingura Nenjû Gyôji
(忠臣藏年中行事)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô,
Tokyo   
Performance Date: 10/01/28
Print Date:  1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine  (神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
Personal Collection
 

                             
            Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
            Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
            Play:  Chûshingura Nenjû Gyôji (忠臣藏年中行事)
            Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 10/01/28
            Print Date: 10/1928?
            Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
            Medium: Lithograph
            Personal Collection

            Note:  Nizaemon XI also performed this role in
            Kanadehon Chûshingura at the Kabuki-za in April 1921.
            Given that 1921 and 1928 appear to be rather early and late,
            respectively, for a Hanayama print, it is possible that the
            print reflects an intermediate performance outside of Tokyo.

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Yojirô (與次郎の母親)

Play: Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki (近頃河原の達引
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1931
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)  (#13)
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.   Nizaemon XI died on October 16,
1934 at age 78.  He first played the role of Yojirô in
Tokyo in Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki
(近頃河原の達引)  at the Meiji-za in April 1909.  Consequently,
this print could depict an earlier performance.
  

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Play: Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
Print Date: 10/16/1935
Artist: Kitazawa Rakuten (北沢楽天)
Personal Collection'

Note: This is a shini-e for Katoka Nizaemon XI,
who died on October 16, 1934.  Nizaemon XI
first performed the role of Kakiemon at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1912.   He
reprised the role in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in
January 1917, at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1919, at the Ichimura-za in October
1922, at the Teikoku Gekijô in June 1925, and
at the Meiji-za in October 1929.
 
 

       
        Gin'nan no rakuyô (銀杏の落葉)
        Haiku Sheet composed by Takayasu Gekko (高安月郊)

        Print Date: 10/16/1935
        Artist: Suga Tatehiko  (菅楯彦)
        Personal Collection

       
        Folder cover

        Print Date: 10/16/1935
        Artist: Unknown
        Personal Collection

       
        Inside flaps of folder

        Print Date: 10/16/1935
        Artist: Unknown
        Personal Collection

                   
Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当; 片岡我當) as
Kusunoki Masashige (楠正成)

Kataoka Matsunosuke III (片岡松之助) as
Kusunoki Masayuki (楠正行)

Play:  Nankô Sakuraieki Ketsubetsu (楠公桜井駅 訣別)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1902
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

Note: There was a play called Nankô Sakuraieki
(楠公桜井駅) that was performed at the Nakatachiuri
Shin Engeki-ba in Kyoto in February 1901 the
previous year, but it is not known at this time if Gatô
III and Matsunosuke III performed in that play.
 
 

Unread as Gankyû (雁九)

Unread as Kanzeon  (観世音) 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片山小左衛門) as
Sawaichi (沢市)
 
Unread as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)

Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki
(壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/10/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  Although there was a production
of Tsubosaka Reigenki at the Meiji-za
in March 1907, Nizaemon XI was not
in that production.  I have not been
 able to find a production with
Nizaemon XI as Sawaichi prior to
1914.
 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Tsukahara [Bokuden] (塚原 [卜伝])
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1920
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1920
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
 
 
 
 
 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Hotei Ichiemon (布袋市右衛門)
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914-1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This appears to be a character from some version of
Gonin Otoko (白波五人男).  The publisher, Shibata, was an
Osaka publisher, so the play was likely performed in Osaka
or Kyoto.  Indeed, I can find no Tokyo performance with
Nizaemon XI in this role.  The rabbit depicted under
Eishô's signature could indicate that this print was made
during the Year of the Rabbit (1915, or less likely, 1927).
 
 
 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門
as Heisaku (平作)
 
Play: Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku 
(伊賀越道中双六)
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: Nizaemon XI performed this role
in Tokyo five times between April 1911
and June 1929.

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
as ?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakiemon (柿右衛門)
 
Play: Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: 盛會御禮 
Personal Collection
 
Note: Although the actor is not
identified this was a signature
role for Nizaemon XI, and the only
actor to perform this role in Tokyo
between November 1912 and
June 1925.
 
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi  (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)  as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)  as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi  (鏡獅子) and similar plays

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)

Title:  Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
 
 

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XI? (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助; 大石内蔵助)
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)?

Note: I can find no record of Nizaemon XII or
XIII performing this role in Tokyo during Shunsen's
lifetime, leading me to believe that it depicts
Nizaemon XI.   Nixaemon XI portrayed the
character several times in plays such as Goban
Teiheiki (碁盤太平記) and Ôishi Kuranosuke
(大石内蔵助).   It is possible that it was intended
as a memorial print, which would date it to the
mid-1930s.  Although purporting to be hanga
genga in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs, it
appears to be a finished painting and I have not
found a hand-colored keyblock print for this
design.

       
        Kataoka Nizaemon XI  (片岡仁左衛門)
        as ?

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

       
        Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII
        (片岡仁左衛門) as
        Fujiya Izaemon
        (藤屋伊左衛門))

        Play: Kuruwa Bunshô
        (廓文章)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Nizaemon XI performed
        this role four times in Tokyo
        between February 1906 and
        November 1922.  Nizaemon XII
        performed this role in Tokyo in
        February 1942.  Presumably one
        of those productions toured in
        Osaka.  The relative youth of the
        portrait suggests that it is more
        likely to be Nizaemon XII. 
 
 
 

       
        Kataoka Nizaemon XI
        (片岡仁左衛門) as
        Yojirô (与次郎)

        Play: Chikagoro Kawara no
        Tatehiki (近頃河原の達引)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
   
        Note: This print may not be by
        Sadanobu III.  Nizaemon XI
        last played this role in Tokyo at 
        the Kabuki-za in April 1931.  
        However, it likely reflects a
        performance in Osaka or
        Kyoto.  The following senshafuda
        is probably by the same artist.

   
    Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
    as ?
 
    Play: ?
    Performance Place: ?
    Performance Date: ?
    Print Date: ?
    Artist: ?
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    senshafuda
    Personal Collection

    Note: The preceding pochibukuro is
    probably by the same artist.  It likely
    depicts Nizaemon XI as Yojirô (与次郎)
    in Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki
    (近頃河原の達引).

Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII
(片岡仁左衛門);; Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童); Bandô
Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎); Nakamura
Fukusuke IV  (中村福助)

Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
 
 
 

       
        Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
        (松本幸四郎); Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII (片岡仁左衛門);
        Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸); Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎);
        Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

Kataoka Nizaemon (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
 
Play: Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Nizaemon XI performed this role
in Tokyo six times between 1912 and
1929.  Nizaemon XIII performed this
role at the Toyoko Hall in Janaury 1961.

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as
Yuranosuke (由良之助)
         
Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵;
假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Nizaemon XI performed
his role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in November 1915,
November 1918, and April
1921.         
        

            
            Kataoka Nizaemon XI
            (片岡仁左衛門) as
            Kakiemon (柿右衛門)

            Play: Meikô Kakiemon
            (名工柿右衛門)           
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
 
            Note: Nizaemon XI performed
            this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
            za in November 1912, at the
            Meiji-za in January 1917, at the
            Teikoku Gekijô in November
            1919, at the Ichimura-za in
            October 1922, at the Teikoku
            Gekijô in June 1925, and at
            the Meji-za in October 1929.
                                   
                      

               
                Kataoka Nizaemon XI
                (片岡仁左衛門) as
                Kakiemon (柿右衛門)

                Play:  Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
                Personal Collection
 
                Note: During the relevant time period
                when the print could have been made,
                Nizaemon XI performed this role at
                the Meiji-za in June 1917; at Teikoku
                Gekijô in November 1919; at the
                Ichimura-za in October 1921, and at
                the Teikoku Gekijô in June 1925.