OSHICHI KICHISA
(お七吉三)



 For other plays involving Oshichi at the watchtower, see also Yagura no Oshichi (櫓のお七),
Kichisama Mairu Yukari no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信), and Oshichi- Kichisamono (お七吉三物).



NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1911

                 
 
Plays: [A Doll's House] Ningyô no Ie (人形の家);  Kanzan Shatoku (寒山拾得); Oshichi Kichisa
(お七吉三); [The Merchant of Venice] Benisu no Shônin (ヴェニスの商人)

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/28/11
Print Date: 11/23/1911
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 






MAY 1924

                 
Nakamura Fukusuke V  (中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)
 
 
Play:  Oshichi  Kichisa (お七吉三)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/1924
Print Date: 05/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 
 



 
 
 


DECEMBER 1924


Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵)
as Kichisa (吉三)

Play:  Oshichi Kichisa
(お七吉三)
Performance Place:  Hōgaku- za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/1924
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
  
Note: Omezô IV also performed
the role of Obô Kichisa in Sannin
Kichisa  (三人吉三) at the
Mitsukoshi  Gekijô in February
1948.