Plays: Maki no Kata (牧の方); Shinpan Utazaimon (新板歌祭文); Misao Sanbasô (操三番叟);
Nuno-zarashi (布晒し; 布さらし)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/05
Print Date: 05/06/05
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                 
 
Plays: Shinrei Sugawara Michizane-ki (神霊菅原道実記); Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺); 
Some Moyô Konomi no Soroi-gi (染模様御好揃着); Yome Odoshi Dani (嫁おどし谷);
Misao Sanbasô (操三番叟); Shinkyoku Urashima (新曲浦島); Sannin Ishibashi (三人石橋)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/08
Print Date: 06/06/1908
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                 
 
Plays: Hinazuru Sanbasô (雛鶴三番叟); Hikô Geigi (飛行藝妓); Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記);
Iden (遺傳); Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
[Monkey as Sanbasô (舌出三番叟)]

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
Medium: Woodblock printed greeting card
Publication:  Chôkokutô  (彫刻刀), 第 6 号
Date: 1932
Artist: Satô Yonejirô (佐藤米次郎)
 
Note: Although the image is in black and white,
the print is in color.  
 
 

[Monkey as Sanbasô (舌出三番叟)]

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
Medium: Woodblock printed New Year's card
Publication:  Chôkokutô  (彫刻刀), 第 6 号
Date: 1932
Artist: Satô Yonejirô (佐藤米次郎)
 
Note: Although the image is in black and white,
the print is in color.  
 

                                       
                    [Monkey as Sanbasô (舌出三番叟)]

                    Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
                    Medium: Woodblock printed New Year's Card
                    Publication:  Chôkokutô  (彫刻刀), 第 6 号
                    Date: 1932
                    Artist: Fukushima Jôsaku (福島常作)
 
                    Note: Although the image is in black and white,
                    the print is in color.  
 

[Sanbasô Puppet] Sanbasô Ningyô (三番叟人形)

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date: 1939
Artist: Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆)
Published in Japanese Proverbs, Tourist Library #33 (1939)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
[Makeup of Sanbasô] Sanbasô-guma (壽三番叟隈)]

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date: 1941 or 1942
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Zoku Kumadori Jûhachiban (続隈取十八番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

[Sanbasô Puppet] Sanbasô Ningyô (三番叟人形)

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date:  05/08/44
Artist: Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: some Sanbaso-monô play
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1944
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
 
 
 

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko,
Takane Kôji, Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, Shimizu Miezô, and Mori
Shunchô.  A panes by Shunsen follows.
 
 
 

                   
Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play,
Panel 1 of Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                 
Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Booklet Cover for Print Series: Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第)
*Courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
Print Date: 01/1953
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection

Note: First Day Cover; envelope is
postmarked Jan. 1, 1953.
 
 
 

                 
[Sanbasô (三番叟)] Bunraku Actor

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date:  1956
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (石井柏亭)
Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Note: The title and date was taken from a pencil
inscription on a different copy.
 
 
 

                 
[Sanbasô (三番叟)] Bunraku Actor

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date:  1956?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (石井柏亭)
Personal Collection
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Note: Color variant.

                   
Sanbasô (三番斐)

Play: A Sanbasômono play such as Kotobuki Shiki
Sanbasô (壽式三番叟)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

                   
Sanbasô (三番斐)

Play: A Sanbasômono play such as Kotobuki Shiki
Sanbasô (壽式三番叟)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

[Monkey Sanbaso Dancer]
 
Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date: 1992
Artist: Ikeda Shûzô (池田脩三)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

               
Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

                 
Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date:  ?
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (石井柏亭)
Medium: Woodblock printed New Year's card
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Kumadori (隈取)
Personal Collection

       
        Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
        Play:  Okina (翁) or a
        Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play          
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series:  **** Omokage (****面影)
        Personal Collection

        

       
        ? as Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
        Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
        (三番叟物) play
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        senshafuda