FUBUKI NO HANA OSHIZU REIZA (吹雪花於静禮三)

aka KOISO-GA-HARA YUKI NO SHIGARAMI (小磯原雪柵)
aka NORIZOME SOGA OGYÔ NO MATSU (魁駒曾我御行松)
aka KEISEI SOGA KURUWA KAGAMI (契情曾我廓亀鑑)
aka KEISEI KAGAMIYAMA (傾城加賀見山)
aka OSHIZU REIZA (お静礼三; 於静禮三)



MAY 1912
 

                   
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Narihira Reizô (業平礼三郎)
[Ôshûya Reizaburô (奥州屋禮三郎; 奥州屋礼三郎)]

Play: Koisogahara (小磯ヶ原; 小磯ケ原), Act III of
Fubuki no Hana Oshizu Reiza (吹雪花於静禮三)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/12
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#18)
*Personal Collection

Note: The only record I can find of Sôjûrô VII  performing
this role in Tokyo was at the Teikoku Gekijô in May 1912. 
Presumably, this print is based on a later performance outside
of Tokyo, such as in Yokohama.
 
 
 
   

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Oshizu (お静)
 
Plays: Ai to Urami (愛と怨); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Koiso-ga-Hara (小磯ヶ原);
Fuku no Kami (福の神)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/12
Print Date: 05/15/12
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  Sawamura ? (沢村**)  as ? in Ai to Urami (愛と怨), and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七) and  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Princess Chihaya (千早姫) in Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七).
 
 


 

OCTOBER 1916

                 
 
Plays: Keisei Kagamiyama (傾城加賀見山); Kanaoka (かな岡); Zôhô Getsu Monogatari (増補雨月物語);
Hidakagawa Shitto no Adanami (日高川嫉妬仇浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/16
Print Date: 10/1916?
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 Kanaoka (金岡) in
Kanaoka (かな岡), and Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) in an unidentified role in
an unknown play.