Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

SAGI MUSUME
(鷺娘)

1919

Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: 1919
Artist: Kaburagi Kiyokata (鏑木清方)
Series: [Selection of Beauties] Bijin-ga Senshu (美人画選集)
*Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

1925

Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Date: 1925
*Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

JANUARY 1926

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中雙六);
Sagi Musume (鷺娘); Yasuna (保名); Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街醉醒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Plays: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中雙六);
Sagi Musume (鷺娘); Yasuna (保名); Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame (籠釣瓶花街醉醒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

c. 1932-1933

[White Egrets and an Umbrella]

Play: [Sagi Musume (鷺娘)] ?
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

1935

[A Heron's Spirit]
Sagi Musume no Sei (鷺娘の精)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: 1935
Artist: Taniguchi Kôkyô (谷口香嶠)
Publication: A Complete Guide to Kyoto (1935)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a postcard size reduced
version of an earlier print by Taniguchi. The
label states the print depicts Sagi Musume
as personified by a noted dancing teacher
of Mikyako Odori (都をどり), one of the four
great spring shows in the five geisha districts
(hanamachi) of Kyoto, Japan.

1942

Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume
(鷺娘)
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

1955

Ichikawa, Shôchô III (市川松蔦) as
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Tôyoko Hall, Toyko
Performance Date: 12/1955
Print Date: 1957?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: A similar but more detailed version of this
design is shown in the 2002 Shunsen catalog
(bearing a 1957 date) and 1991 Shunsen catalogs
(and appears to be a painting, not hanga-genga).
It is possible that the actual date of this print is
not 1957.

1978

Illusioniste

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Shimbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/78
Print Date: 1978 (ed. 35)
Artist: Yayanagi Gô (矢柳剛}
Series: Tomasaburô (玉三郎)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo

JANUARY 1992

Yuki (雪)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: 01/1992
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#24/72)

Note: 6 copies from the edition of 72 were destroyed by the artist.

OCTOBER 1993

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 10-11/1993
Artist: Paul Binnie
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com

Note: An additional color variant was issued
in the spring of 1994.

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘))

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 10-11/1993
Artist: Paul Binnie
Personal Collection

Note: Artist proof with mica

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 03-04/1994
Artist: Paul Binnie
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com

Note: This is a later color variant.

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 07/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Tamasaburô - Sagi Musume (玉三郎 - 鷺娘)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#22/100)

NOVEMBER 2017

Heron Maiden

Dance: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Yachiyo-za, Yamaga
Performance Date: 10/31/2017 - 11/05/2017
Print Date: 2018
Artist: Kobayashi Ayako (小林綾子)
Personal Collection (#2/3)

Note: The artist was inspired by Bandô Tamasaburô (坂東玉三郎) V's
performance when creating this print. She has also viewed the Cinema
Kabuki video of Tamasaburô V's performance at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo
in May 2005.

UNKNOWN DATES

[Spirit of the Heron Maiden] Sagi Musume no Sei (鷺娘の精)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Taniguchi Kôkyô (谷口香嶠)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print depicts Sagi Musume as personified by a noted
dancing teacher of Mikyako Odori (都をどり), one of the four
great spring shows in the five geisha districts (hanamachi) of
Kyoto, Japan. Various online sources date this print to 1918 and
to 1925. Since Taniguchi Kôkyô died in 1915, it is possible
that this print was posthumously published. Given the
design's popularity, it is also possible that it was printed
at different times in different editions.

Dance - Snowy Heron Girl (I)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Dance - Snowy Heron Girl (II)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Personal Collection

[Heron Maiden] Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

[Heron Maiden] Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda (large size)
Personal Collection

[Heron Maiden]
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Dance: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô (山川秀峰)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com*

[Heron Maiden]
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Dance: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô
(山川秀峰)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochikuburo
Series: [Ten Aspects of Dance]
Buyô Jyû-shû no Uchi
(舞踊十種之内) Vol. 1
Personal Collection