OTSU-E
(大津絵)

                 
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi  (伽羅先代萩); Gozonji Banzui Chôbei (御存幡随長兵衛);
Daikyôji Mukashi Goyomi (大経師昔暦); Waka Sanjin (和歌三神); Otsu-e (大津絵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/09
Print Date: 11/05/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Masaoka (政岡),  Ichikawa Sadanji
II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正), and  Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) as Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi  (伽羅先代萩).
 

               
Meijiza (明治座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/09
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 113 (Dec. 1, 1909)
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Note: The plays on the November bill were Meiboku Sendai Hagi 
(伽羅先代萩); Gozonji Banzui Chôbei (御存幡随長兵衛); Daikyôji
Mukashi Goyomi (大経師昔暦); Waka Sanjin (和歌三神); and
Otsu-e (大津絵). 
 
 

               
[Main June Kyôgen]
Omomaru Rokugatsu Kyôgen (主なる六月狂言)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 133 (July 1, 1911)
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Note: A production of Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記) opened
at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo on June 5, 1911.  A production of Otsue-
zoshi (大津絵双紙) opened at the Ichimura-za in Tokyo on June 8,
1911.
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Shiki Sanbasô (式三番); Yoritomo (頼朝); Nimai Ezôshi (二枚繪草紙); Otsue (大津繪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/20
Print Date: 04/1920?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Hojo Tokimasa (北条時政), Morita Kan'ya
XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yahachirô (屋八郎),  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Minamoto no
Yoritomo (源頼朝), and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上 梅幸) as Masako-hime (政子姫) in Yoritomo (頼朝); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Oshima (お島) and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nagara Ichirōemon (長柄市郎右衛門) in Nimai Ezôshi (二枚繪草紙).
 
 
 

                    
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as
Kuniiri-yakko (國入奴)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)
 
Plays:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Ôtsue (大津絵);  Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人);
Tsuta Momiji Utsunoya Tôge (蔦紅葉宇都谷峠)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/04/27
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
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Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon
I (中村吉右衛門) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane
(熊谷次郎直実) and Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵)
as Sagami (相模) in Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記); Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kurobê (九郎兵衛), Bandô Mitsugorô VII
(坂東三津五郎) as Hyakushô Manbê (百姓万兵衛),
and Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Saemon (左衛門) in Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人).
 
 
 

Onikuma (鬼の隈)

Role: Red Devil; Blue Devil; Black Devil
Play: Rai Jin; Otsu-e (大津絵); Shoki (鍾馗)
Print Date:  08/13/29
Artist: Ota Gako (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 8, No. 10
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