Kataoka Nizaemon XII (片岡仁左衛門) aka Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童)

KATAOKA NIZAEMON XII (片岡仁左衛門)
09/09/1882 - 03/16/1946

aka KATAOKA GADÔ IV (片岡我童)

MAY 1917

Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)
as Okuma (おくま)

Play: Musume Hyoban Zen'aku Kagami
(娘評判善悪鏡)
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

SEPTEMBER 1919

            Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
            Iinuma Katsugorô (飯沼勝五郎)

            Play: Hakone Reigen Izari no
            Adauchi (箱根霊験躄仇討)
            Performance Place: Meiji-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/02/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

1924

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock test print
Image courtesy of Ed Freis

Note: This keyblock test print significantly alters
the lines on the collar,proper right sleeve, eye-
brows, bridge of the nose, and hands from those
on any known version of this print.design.
Presumably the blocks were subsequently
recarved in whole or in part before a commercial
version of this design was released. See the
entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection

Note: This is a keyblock test print with a tissue
paper overlay on the right sleeve with hand-
coloring suggesting the floral pattern of the
kimono.

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is an unnumbered test print (though not a test print
corresponding to the keyblock print shown above). It may be a
color variant or else an unfaded example of the first edition
printing. See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This is the first edition printing of this design (edition of 100),
possibly faded. Gado IV performed this role at the Shinbashi Enbujô
in Tokyo in June 1924, and likely performed it in Kyoto around that
time. It is also possible that the play was called Shin Asagao Nikki
(新朝顔日記), a new version of Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki that was
sometimes performed in its place.

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of Scholten Japanese Art

Note: This is the second edition printing of this design in a
variant color scheme. See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information. A seemingly
similar version from the Ed Freis collection is shown in Brown
and Goodall-Cristante, Shin-Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art/University of Washington
Press 1996). That copy is stamped on the verso as being a
sample print.

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924 or later
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is either a color variant or a faded copy of the second
edition printing. See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information.

JANUARY 1936

Kataoka Nizaemon XII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Matsudaira Chôshichirô (松平長七郎)

Play: Sanzen Ryô Kogane no Kurairi
(三千両初春蔵入; 三千両初春藏入)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/36
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Print Date: 1950 or later
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩) (#27)
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 XII died on March 16,
1946 at age 65.

UNKNOWN DATES

Kataoka Nizaemon XII? (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 Gadô IV (片岡我童)
   as Nagato-no-Kami (長門守)

   Play: Ume Kyôdai Naniwa
   Senki (梅✪✪浪花扇記)
   Performance Place: ?
   Performance Date: ?
   Print Date: ?
   Artist: ?
   Medium: Woodblock printed
   matchbook cover

        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.

        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)
        as Kyô Ningyô (京人形)

        Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Gadô IV performed
        this role at least twice in
        Tokyo, at the Kabuki-za in
        November 1916 and at the
        Teikoku Gekijô in December
        1919. It is possible that one
        of those productions toured
        Osaka.

Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Gadô IV played Hangan in a
production at the Shinbashi Enbujô in
Tokyo in June 1935. It is possible that
he also performed the role in Osaka
around that time.

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

        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as ?

        Play(s): ?
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/19**
        Print Date: 11/19**?
        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 Hito? (片岡) as ?

        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as ?

        Play(s): ?
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/19**
        Print Date: 11/19**?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Kataoka Gadō IV (片岡我童) 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 XII (片岡仁左衛門)
        as Akoya (阿古屋)

        Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki
        (壇浦兜軍記)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: 1943
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of
        MiniatureJapaneseWoodblocks.net

        Note: Nizaemon XII played this role at
        the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in June 1941.
        That production likely toured Osaka
        around that time.

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

        Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童);
        Bandô Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎); Nakamura
        Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門)

        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

Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: ?; Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童);
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助); Ichikawa Sadanji III
(市川左団次; 市川左團次); Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀)

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

            Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)

            Play: ?
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?)
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
            Personal Collection

            Note: This pochibukuro
            bears the mon of Kataoka
            Gadô IV. It may or may not
            be by Sadanobu III.