ÔMORI HIKOSHICHI
(大森彦七)

              
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

Play:  Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/11/1897
Print Date: 11/1900
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Series: Ichikawa Danjûrô Engei Hyakuban
(市川団十郎演芸百番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This print was issued posthumously.  
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Iwaya no Kagekiyo (岩窟景清);  Takatoki (高時); Kanjinchô (勧進帳); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七);
Yanone (矢の根); Tsukiyo no Sunadori (月夜漁); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/23/05
Print Date: 09/22/05
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Konoshita Tôkichi (此下東吉)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Yukihime (雪姫)

Plays: Gishi no Yoshi Homare (義士の芳誉); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Kokkei Ataka no Seki (滑稽安宅関)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/15/07
Print Date: 07/15/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Konoshita Tôkichi (此下東吉)
and  Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Yukihime (雪姫) in Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記).
 
 

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

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

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

       
        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
 
        Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
        Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 05/01/12

                 
 
Plays: Ai to Urami (愛と怨); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Koiso-ga-Hara (小磯ヶ原);
Fuku no Kami (福の神)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/12
Print Date: 05/15/12
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
 
Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
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]
Image courtesy of David Bull
 
 
 
 

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as    
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

Play:  Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Performance Place:  Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/17
Print Date: 05/25/18
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #8
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Chausuyama Gaika no Jindate (茶臼山凱歌陣立); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七);
Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Onatsu Seijûrô (お夏清十郎); Takigyô Yukima no Ichikawa (薪荷雪間の市川)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/17
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Senhime (千姫); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Jigoku (地獄); Sannin Ishibashi (三人石橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

 
Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記); Daigo no Haru (醍醐の春);  Shinju (新樹);
Tamamo-no-Mae Asahi no Tamoto (玉藻前曦袂); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七);
Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/03/21
Print Date: 06/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記); Daigo no Haru (醍醐の春);  Shinju (新樹);
Tamamo-no-Mae Asahi no Tamoto (玉藻前曦袂); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七);
Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/03/21
Print Date: 06/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII also portrayed Ômori Hikoshichi in a
production at the Kabuki-za in March 1926.  I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects that
performance.
 
 

Operas: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

               
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Tokiwazu Bushi (常磐津節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII  (松本幸四郎) as
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
 
Play:  Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
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: Kôshirô VII performed this role
eleven times in Tokyo between May 1912
and April 1947.