ROKKASEN SUGATA NO IRODORI
(六歌仙容彩)

aka KISEN (喜撰)

                 
 
Plays: Tengajaya (天下茶屋); Kokusen'ya Gassen (国姓爺合戦); Rokkasen (六歌仙)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/10
Print Date: 03/02/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Nue Taiji (鵺退治); Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝); Izumo no Okuni (出雲の阿国);
Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨); Rokkasen Kyôga no Suminuri (六歌仙狂画墨塗)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/10
Print Date: 06/01/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: On'na Rônin (女浪人); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記); Shinjû Yoi Gôshin (心中宵庚申);
Bun'ya (文屋); Kisen (喜撰)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/11
Print Date: 06/05/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Nigatsudô (二月堂);  Taiwan Miyage Seiban Shûrai (台湾土産生蕃襲来); Rokkasen (六歌仙)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/13
Print Date: 05/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Shûsan (集散); Garakate (ガラカテ); Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori (六歌仙容彩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/16/20
Print Date: 02/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays:  Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曽我対面); Kanzaki Sasaya Banashi (神崎笹屋話);
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子); Kurayami no Ushimatsu (暗闇の丑松); Kisen (喜撰)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/37
Print Date: 12/1937?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曽我対面); Kanzaki Sasaya Banashi (神崎笹屋話);
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子); Kurayami no Ushimatsu (暗闇の丑松); Kisen (喜撰)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/37
Print Date: 12/1937?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 

                   
Bun'ya Yasuhide
(文屋康秀)

Dance: Bun'ya (文屋),
Section II of Rokkasen
Sugata no Irodori
(六歌仙容彩)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Hana no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 花の巻)
Image courtesy of
Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as
Kisen Hôshi (喜撰法師)

Dance: Kisen (喜撰)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/03/84
Print Date: 09/1984
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 5)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 5
(第三期大首絵シリーズの5)
Personal Collection (#32/45)
 
 
 
 

Okaji (お梶)

Dance:  Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori (六歌仙容彩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: [100 Views of Dance Shikishi]
Shikishi odori hyakkei   (色紙おどり百景)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
                Bandô Mitsugorô VII
                (坂東三津五郎) as
                Kisen (喜撰)

                Dance: Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori
                (六歌仙容彩)
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed
                matchbook cover
 
                Note: Mitsugorô VII first performed
                this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-
                za in July 1907.  His final
                appearance in Tokyo in this role
                was at the Kabuki-za in February
                1957.