Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Otogirisô (弟切草);  Kumo no Ito (蜘蛛糸); Ranchô (蘭蝶)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/11/12
Print Date: 05/12/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Yonezô V 9市川米蔵) as Usugumo (薄雲) and Ichikawa Sai'nyû I
(市川齊入) as Minamoto no Yorimitsu (源頼光) in Kumo no Ito (蜘蛛糸); and Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次)  as Karaki Masaemon (唐木政右衛門) and Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) as Sawai Matagorô (沢井股五郎; 澤井股五郎) in Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
伊賀越道中双六).
 
 

                 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Sakuragawa Ranchô (桜川蘭蝶)
 
Plays: On'na Narukami (女鳴神);  Ikka Zoku (一家族); Izumo no Okuni (出雲の阿國);
Nichiren Shônin Tsuji Seppô (日蓮聖人辻説法); Ranchô (蘭蝶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/31/19
Print Date: 08/1919?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Hiki Daigaku Kumamoto (比企大学熊本)
or Daigaku Saburô (大学三郎) in Nichiren Shônin Tsuji Seppô (日蓮聖人辻説法); and Ichimura Kamezo III
(市村亀蔵; 市村龜蔵) as Taemanosuke (當麻之助) in On'na Narukami (女鳴神).
 

               
Sawamura Denjirô I (沢村伝二郎; 沢村傳二郎) as
Ranchô (蘭蝶)

Play: Ranchô (蘭蝶)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/29/24
Print Date: 05/1924?
Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Denjirô I also performed this role at the Miyato-
za in April 1923.  I cannot rule out the possibility that
this print reflects that performance.