OSHICHI-KICHISAMONO
(お七吉三物)

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.
 
 
 

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)

                 
 
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: 07/03/14
Print Date: 07/1914?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
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

Note: This postcard was missing when the
set was acquired.
 
 
 
 

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
 
 
 

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.
 
 
 

                   
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
 
 

                   
Oshichi (お七)

Play: Some Oschichi-Kichasamono play
Print Date: 1985
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 
 

                 
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
 
 

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