NORIAIBUNE
(乗合船)


aka NORIAIBUNE EHÔ MANZAI (乗合船惠方萬歳)
 



JANUARY 1901

                
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 depicts  Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Inaba Kôzô (稲葉幸蔵) in Nezumi
Komon Harugi no Hinagata (鼠小紋春着雛形) and as Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前) in Zôho
Tamamo-no-Mae (増補玉藻前).
 





JANUARY 1905

                 
Plays: Chikyôdai (乳姉妹); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/05
Print Date: 01/02/05
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Takahama Isamu (高濱勇) in Igagoe Dôchû
Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六) and depicts Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫)  in an unknown role.  The
identity of the third figure is as yet unknown at this time.
 





MAY 1911


                 
 
Plays: Iwatesan (岩手山); Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎蔵); Kokaji (小鍛冶); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/11
Print Date: 05/12/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)  as Hoshikage Doemon
(星影土右衛門) and  Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵) in
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎蔵).
 
 


 

JANUARY 1915

                   

Plays: Kentô Bôshi (劒島帽子); Igagoe Dôchû
Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Ibaraki (茨木);
Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫);
Noriaibune Ehô Manzai (乗合船惠方萬歳)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/15
Print Date: 12/30/14
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
 




FEBRUARY 1916

                 
 
Plays: On'na Kabuki (女歌舞伎); Kajiwara Heizô Tameshi no Wazamono (梶原平三試名劒);
Suzu-ga-mori (鈴ヶ森); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Noriaibune (乗合船惠萬歳)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/11/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 





JANUARY 1918

                 
 
Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐); Oedo Nihonbashi (お江戸日本ばし); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ôgiya (扇屋); Noriaibune Ehô Manzai (乗合船惠方萬歳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/18
Print Date: 01/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Horibe Yahei (堀部彌兵衛) in Oedo
Nihonbashi (お江戸日本ばし);  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛) in Tsuchigumo
(土蜘蛛); and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Anewa Heiji (姉輪平次),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Jiro Naozane (熊谷次郎直実), and  Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Oriko Kohagi jitsu Atsumori (折子小萩 実敦盛) in Ôgiya (扇屋).
 
 




APRIL 1921

                 
Plays: Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石噺); Noriaibune (浄瑠璃乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yahê (弥兵衛) and  Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Okô (お幸) in Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Shinobu (信夫) in Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺); and Morita Kan'ya
XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶), and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Togashi
Saemon (富樫左衛門) in Kanjinchô (勸進帳).
 
 
 



           


APRIL 1927

                    
Plays: Zenzen Taieiki (前々太平記); Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Kasane Monogatari (累物語); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




UNKNOWN DATE


Onoe Kikugorô VI  (尾上菊五郎) as
as Tsûjin (通人)
 
Play:  Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eisho (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI performed this role
twice in Tokyo, at the Ichimura-za in
both January 1915 and February 1925.