OSHICHI-KICHISAMONO
(お七吉三物)
1913
Title: Jidai Bijin Fûzoku Sugoroku (時代 美人 風俗 双六)
Print Date: 01/1913
Artist: Kaburagi Kiyokata (鏑木清方)
Publication: Appendix to Bungei Kurabu (文芸倶楽部)
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Note: Plays depicted include Fuji Musume (藤娘), Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉),
and some Oshichi-mono.
JANUARY 1914
Issei Ichidai Appare Sugoroku (一世一代天晴双六)
Print Date: January 1, 1914
Artist: Igawa Sengai (井川洗厓)
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection
Note: Published by Kodan Kurabu, No. 15 No. 1 New Year Issue
Appendix.
Yaoya
Oshichi (八百屋お七)
Play:
Some Bunraku Oshichi-mono play
Artist:
Igawa Sengai (井川洗厓)
AUGUST 1914
Kobayashi Nobuko (小林延子) as Oshichi (お七)
Plays: Oshichi Kichi Zan Namidabashi (お七吉三涙橋); Otoko Nora (男ノラ);
Konsen (混線);
Natsu no Sono (夏の園)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/03/14
Print Date: 08/1914?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
SEPTEMBER 1916
Nakamura Shibajaku IV (中村芝雀) as
Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
Play: Some Oshichi-mono play
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: This postcard was missing when the
folder and other three postcards were
acquired. While it is believed to depict
Shibajaku IV as Oshichi, it is possible that it
depicts another actor in another role from
as-yet unlocated third set of Kanpô postcards.
NOVEMBER 1922
Plays: Futatsu no Yagura (二の櫓); Katakiuchi Ranru Nishiki (敵討襤褸錦);
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Oshichi (お七)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/04/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Plays: Futatsu no Yagura (二の櫓); Katakiuchi Ranru Nishiki (敵討襤褸錦);
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Oshichi (お七)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/04/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
FEBRUARY 1927
Plays: Taira no Masakado (平將門); Shinyû (親友); Oshichi (お七)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/27
Print Date: 02/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Plays: Taira no Masakado (平將門); Shinyû (親友); Oshichi (お七)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/27
Print Date: 02/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
1971
Oshichi (お七)
Play: Some Oschichi-Kichasamono play
Print Date: 1971
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art
1985
Oshichi (お七)
Play: Some Oschichi-Kichasamono play
Print Date: 1985
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
1987
Oshichi (お七) A
Play: Some Oschichi-Kichasamono play
Print Date: 1987
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 100)
Image courtesy of the Lambsquay Japanese Print Gallery
UNKNOWN DATES
Title page for Ôno Shin (大野信)
Play: Some Oschichi-Kichasamono
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: Ôno Shin (大野信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Yaoya Oshichi VII (八百屋お七)
Play: Some Oschichi-Kichasamono
Print Date: (Year of the Dragon)?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: Ôno Shin (大野信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Nakamura Fukusuke
(中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)
Play: Some
Oschichi-Kichasamono
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock
printed
matchbook cover
Note: Fukusuke V performed this
role in Kichisama Mairu Yukari
no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信) at
the Shintomi-za in January
1923, and Fukusuke VI performed
this role in the same play at the
Meiji-za in June 1936.
Fukusuke
V also performed this role in
Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三) at the
Hongô-za in May 1924, in
Shochikubai Yushima no
Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額) at the
Hongô-za in February 1926, and in
Shochikubai Yuki no Akebono
(松竹梅雪曙) at the Shintomi-za in
December 1918. This print
could depict any one of those
performances.
Nakamura Fukusuke (中村福助) as
Oshichi (お七)
Play: Some
Oschichi-Kichasamono
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: Fukusuke V
performed this
role in Kichisama Mairu
Yukari
no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信) at
the Shintomi-za in
January
1923, and Fukusuke VI
performed
this role in the same
play at the
Meiji-za in June
1936. Fukusuke
V also performed this
role in
Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三)
at the
Hongô-za in May 1924,
in
Shochikubai Yushima no
Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額) at
the
Hongô-za in February
1926, and in
Shochikubai Yuki no
Akebono
(松竹梅雪曙) at the
Shintomi-za in
December 1918.
This print
could depict any one of
those
performances.
Oshichi (お七)
Dance: Some Oschichi-
Kichasamono play
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô
(山川秀峰)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochikuburo
Series: [Ten Aspects of
Dance] Buyô Jyû-shû no
Uchi (舞踊十種之内)
Image courtesy of
Artelino.com
Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
Play: Some Oshichi-Kichisamono
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Note: A related senshafuda design
exists.
Yaoya Oshichi
(八百屋お七)
Play: Some Oshichi-
Kichisamono
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Image courtesy of Gary
Christenson
Note: At least one other
senshafuda purchased as
part of a set was by
Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信), A related
postcard design exists.