ONATSU KYÔRAN
(お夏狂乱)

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Onatsu (お夏)
 
Plays: Ichikawa Danjûrô (市川團十郎);
Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂亂); Eiyû to Bijin (英雄と美人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/14
Print Date: 09/03/14
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸)
as Onatsu (お夏) in Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂亂); and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ichikawa
Danjûrô I (市川團十郎), Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sugiyama Hanroku
(鼓打杉山半六), and Sawamura Sônosuke I
(澤村宗之助) as Osai (お才) in Ichikawa Danjûrô
(市川團十郎).
 
 

                   
Onatsu (お夏)

Play: Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock print from the book
Koi Hyaku Dai (恋百題)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Onatsu (おなつ)
 
Plays: Honchô Ôshôkun  (本朝王昭君); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Meigetsu Hachiman Matsuri
(名月八幡祭)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/21
Print Date: 10/1921?
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 Tawaraya Sôtatsu (俵屋宗達),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (烏丸光広), and  Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Gakusô Keiun (學僧慶雲) in Honchô Ôshôkun  (本朝王昭君); and  Bandô
Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Uosô (魚惣),  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Chijimiya Shinsuke (縮屋新助), and  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Geisha Miyokichi (芸者美代吉) in Meigetsu Hachiman Matsuri (名月八幡祭).
 
 
 

Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
in Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Saibôzu Nishizumi (斉坊主西住)
and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koume (小梅) in Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛); and  Morita
Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hirano Saemon-no-jô (平ノ左衛門尉) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Nichiren (日蓮) in Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人).
 
 
 

Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
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
 
 

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as 
Onatsu (お夏; 緒夏; おなつ)

Play:  Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/34
Print Date: 1935
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection (#159/500)

Note:  This print was commissioned after Baikô VI's death.
It is possible that it was issued in the same wrapper as the
Baikô VI shini-e  shown below.  Baikô VI first performed
the role of Onatsu in September 1914 at the Teikoku
Gekijô in Tokyo.  He is also known to have performed the
role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in October 1921,
October 1925, and June 1930.  It is possible that this
print is based on one of those earlier performances.
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Toyotomi Sandaiki (豊臣三代記); Kataoka Ichizô [V] Shûmei Hirô/Kôōjô (片岡市蔵襲名披露/口上);
Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱); Yuki no Wataridori (雪の渡り鳥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/34
Print Date: 10/1934?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                   
Onatsu (お夏)

Play: Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Yuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 雪の巻)
Image courtesy of the Ronin
Gallery
 

                 
Maizuru (舞鶴)
 
Play: Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
Print Date: 2017
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo
  
 
  

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
as Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
 
Play:  Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
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: Baikô VI performed this role in
Tokyo five times between September
1914 and October 1921.  He also
appeared as a character called Onatsu
in November 1917 in a play called
Onatsu Seijûrô (お夏清十郎) which
appears to be another version of the
story.

       
        Onatsu (お夏)

        Play: Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson