RENJISHI
(連獅子)

                 
 
Plays:  Horibe Myôkaini  (堀部妙海尼);  Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Renjishi (連獅子);
Katô Saemon (加藤左衞門); Mitsu Uroko (三ツ鱗)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/16/12
Print Date: 11/1912
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Cover for Renjishi (連獅子)
[Kyôgen Actor (狂言俳優)]

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Medium: Machine printed
Personal Collection

                   
Ko Shishi (子獅子) and Oya Shishi (親獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Oya Shishi (親獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/52
Print Date: 01/1952 or later
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: This was Ennosuke II's last performance in this
role in Tokyo.  He first performed the role at the Meiji-
za in September 1934.  It is possible that this print
depicts an earlier performance, particularly one of his
post-WWII performances at the Tokyo Gekijô in
December 1945, January 1947, or January 1949.
 
 
       

               
Renjishi  (連獅子)

Play: Renjishi  (連獅子)
Print Date: 1976
Artist: Al Hirschfeld
Series: Kabuki
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection (#258/275)
 
 
 

                   
[Two Lions Side By Side] Renjishi (連獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

                   
[Two Lions Side By Side] Renjishi (連獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

                   
[Kabuki Lion] Kabuki Shishi (歌舞伎獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 80)
Image courtesy of Gallery Sobi
 
 

                   
Shishimai (獅子舞)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1979
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
 

                   
[Red and White Shishi Dancers]

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1983
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery
 
 

                   
[Lion Dancers (small size)]

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 1983
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Castle Fine Arts

                 
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Play: ?
Performance Place: Shikoku Konpira Kabuki Grand Theater,
Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 14-24, 1990
Print Date: 1990
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Renjishi (連獅子),
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛),
Chatsubo (茶壺), and Shiranami Gonin Otoko (白波五人男). 
It starred Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎), Bandô
Mitsugorô IX (坂東三津五郎), Kawarasaki Gonjûrô III
(河原崎権十郎;  河原崎權十郎), Bandô Hikosaburô
(坂東彦三郎), Bandô Yasosuke V (坂東八十助),
Nakamura Shibajaku VII (中村芝雀), Bandô Shûchô V
 (坂東秀調), Bandô Shônosuke (坂東正之助), Onoe
Kikuzô VI (尾上菊蔵), and Ichimura Tsuruzô (市村鶴蔵).
 
 

                 
Renjishi II (連獅子 II)
 
Oya Shishi (親獅子)
 
Ko Shishi (子獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子) 
Print Date: 2011 (ed. 300)
Artist: Katô Hideaki (加藤英明)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

[Oya Shishi (親獅子) and Ko Shishi (子獅子)]
Kagami-Jishi (鏡獅子)
Ex Libris Cees Lith
 
Dance: Renjishi (連獅子)
Print Date: 11/2013
Artist: Hamanishi Katsunori (浜西勝則)
Medium: Mezzotint
Personal Collection

Note: Although titled Kagami-Jishi, the print appears to
depict the lions in Renjishi, rather than the lion in the dance
Shunkyô Kagami Jishi.
 
 
 
 

            
? as Oya Shishi (親獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                 
? as Ko Shishi (子獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

                 
? as Ko Shishi (子獅子)

Play: Renjishi (連獅子)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda (large size)
Personal Collection 
 
 
 

                 
[Oya Shishi (親獅子) and Ko Shishi (子獅子)]
 
Play:  Renjishi (連獅子)?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 16)
Image courtesy of Lot-Art.com