Ôtani Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as
Yakko Edobei (奴江戸兵衛)

Play: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱)
Performance Place: Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/1794
Print Date: 11/2011
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: [Sharaku's Caricatures]
Sharaku no Giga (写楽の戯画)
Series: [A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo]
Edo Sumi Hyaku Shoku (江戸墨百色)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#37/100)

Note:  The tattoo of Ôtani Oniji is based on a 1794 print
by Sharaku.  The cartouche depicts Ichikawa Ebizô I
(市川海老蔵) as Takemura Sadanoshin (竹村定之進)
in the same play, also after a 1794 print by Sharaku.
 
 
 
 

                 
Ôtani Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as
Yakko Edobei (奴江戸兵衛)

Play: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱)
Performance Place: Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/1794
Print Date: ? (ed. 250)
Artist: Katô Yuichirô (加藤裕一郎?}
Print Title: Antique Store In Kiyomizu]
Kiyomizu no Kotto-ya (清水の骨董屋)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: The print shown in the antique store is by Tôshûsai Sharaku
(東洲斎写楽) and depicts Ôtani Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as Yakko Edohei
(奴江戸兵衛) in the play Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna
(恋女房染分手綱), which premiered at the Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo, on
May 5, 1794.
 
 

               
Ôtani Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as
Yakko Edobei (奴江戸兵衛)
 
Play: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱)
Performance Place: Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/1794
Print Date: ? (ed. 60)
Artist: Ôuchi Makoto (大内マコト)
Print Title: [Fan - Ni] 扇 - に (Ougi - Ni)
Medium: etching with woodblock printed color
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: This design is based on a 1794 print by Tôshûsai Sharaku
(東洲斎写楽).

Ôtani Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as
Yakko Edobei (奴江戸兵衛)

Play: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱)
Performance Place: Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/1794
Print Date: c. 1997
Artist: Kitano Takeshi (北野武)
Print Title: [Scull Sharaku]  ZvvbbxzDokuro Sayaraku (髑髏写楽)
Personal Collection (ed. 50)
 
Note: The original creation was used in the film
[Fireworks] Hana-bi (花火) in 1997.   The
woodblock print was made for one of Kitano's
television shows.  It combines elements of
Sharaku's 1794 print with the skeleton from
Kuniyoshi's c. 1844 print "Mitsukuni Defying
the Skeleton Spectre Invoked by Princess
Takiyasha."
 
 
 
 
 

                           
            Ôtani Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as
            Yakko Edobei (奴江戸兵衛)
           
            Performance Place: Shikoku Konpira Kabuki Grand Theater,
            Kotohira
            Performance Dates: June 15-18, 1985
            Print Date: 1985
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Machine printed poster
            Personal Collection

            Note: The program was made up of Saikai Zakura Misome
            no Kiyomizu (再桜遇清水) and Niwaka Jishi (俄獅子).  It
            starred Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門), Sawamura
            Tôjûrô II (沢村藤十郎;  澤村藤十郎), Sawamura Sôjûrô IX
            (沢村宗十郎;  澤村宗十郎), Ichimura Yoshigorô II
            (市村吉五郎), Ichimura Kakitsu IX (市村家橘), and
            Nakamura Kangorô XIII.  The poster design is based on a
            print by Tôshûsai Sharaku (東洲斎写楽) that depicts Ôtani
            Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as Yakko Edobei (奴江戸兵衛) in the play
            Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱), which
            premiered at the Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo, on May 5, 1794.