KATAOKA NIZAEMON XIII (片岡仁左衛門)
12/15/1903 - 03/26/1994

aka KATAOKA GATÔ IV (片岡我当)



1951

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

Play: Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection
 



NOVEMBER 1953




                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/1953
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: I can find no record of Nizaemon XIII performing
this role in the relevant time period.   He did not appear in
November 1953 production at the Teikoku Gekijô with
Minosuke VI, the subject of a contemporaneous print by
Shunsen.
 
 
 

FEBRUARY 1957

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

Play:  [Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)?]
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Waseda University has a photograph from a production of 
Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛) at the Dotonbori Bunraku-za
(Asahi) in Osaka in January 1958 where Kataoa Nizaemon VIII [sic]
portrayed Ume no Yoshibê.  This was classified as a shinkô geki
(emerging theater
, not kabuki theater) production.  Kabukidb.net
confirms the existence of such a production but omits the name
of the actor playing Ume no Yoshibê, although it indicates that
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII appeared in other plays on the same bill. 
As this production was performed almost after this print was
made, one wonders if there was an earlier production
somewhere in Tokyo made difficult to locate because it was
not, strictly speaking, a kabuki play?


 




MAY 1959

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)
 
Play:  Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
(夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/59
Print Date: 1959
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: A similar but reversed and more detailed
version of this design is shown in the 2002 and
1991 Shunsen catalogs (and appears to be a
painting).
 
 
 


NOVEMBER 1978

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Gappô Dôshin (合邦道心)

Play: Sesshû Gappô ga  Tsuji (摂州合邦辻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/78
Print Date: 11/10/78
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 5)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 5
(第一期大首絵シリーズの5)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com (ed. 36)
 
Note: Color variants of this print exist.
 
 
 
  
 
 


SEPTEMBER 1983

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Yakko Torazô (奴虎蔵)

Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)

Play: Kikubatake (菊畑), Act III, Scene 2 of
Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/83
Print Date: 09/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 25)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第三期大首絵シリーズの1)
Personal Collection (#13/36)

Note: 3 copies from the edition of 36 were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 
 

OCTOBER 1986

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

Play: Act 4 of Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/04/86
Print Date: 11/1986
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, Six Acts from Kanadehon Chûshingura]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Kanadehon Chûshingura Roku-maku
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・女形大首六姿)
Personal Collection (#11/54)

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences II (01/2000).
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Reminiscences II (思い出 II)

Print Date:  01/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
Note: This print contains larger versions of
the following actors' faces (left to right
starting at the top row):
 
1. Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
2. Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as Hannyo (斑女) in
Sumidagawa (隅田川), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1981).
3. Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (11/1980).
4. Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo (10/04/1986).
5. Nakamura Kanzaburô XVlI (中村勘三郎) as Danjô Imôto Yashio (弾正妹八汐) in
Sendai Hagi (先代萩), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/01/1983)
6. Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as Fujioka Tôjûrô (藤岡藤十郎) in
Shisenryô (四千両), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1983).
7. Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Yûjo Okaru (遊女おかる) in
Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1988).
8. Jitsukawa Enjaku III (實川延若) as Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作) in
Nozakimura (野崎村), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1989).
9. Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as Benten Kozô (弁天小僧) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1995).
10. Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in
Terakoya (寺子屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1997).
11. Sawamura Tanosuke VI (澤村田之助) as Mitsuhide Tsuma Satsuki (光秀妻皐月) in
Kikyô no Hataage (桔梗旗揚), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1997).
12. Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1996).
 
 
 
 


MARCH 1989

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kawachiya Tokubê (河内証徳兵衛)

Play: Onna Goroshi Abura no Jigoku (女殺油地獄)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/89
Print Date: 05/1989
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VII (Design 3)]
Dainana-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 3
(第七期大首絵シリーズの3)
Personal Collection (#35/90)
 
 
 
 

NOVEMBER 1992

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (楼門五三桐)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/92
Print Date: 03/1993
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 4)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 4
(第七期大首絵シリーズの4)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com