MEIBOKU SENDAI HAGI
(伽羅先代萩)

aka DATE KURABE OKUNI KABUKI (伊達競阿國劇場)
aka SENDAI HAGI (先代萩)
 
Act II, Scene 3: Yukashita (床下) (Below The Floor)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

Play:  Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場; 伊達競阿國劇場)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/28/1895
Print Date: 1901
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Series: Ichikawa Danjûrô Engei Hyakuban
(市川団十郎演芸百番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This print was issued posthumously.
 
 
 

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Niki Danjô (仁木弾正)
    
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (坂東家橘) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place/: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/12/01
Print Date: 11/1901
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
*Image courtesy of the Artelino.com
 
 
  
 

Unread as Unknown

Unread as Menoto Masaoka (乳人政岡)

Unread as Todoke (?) Yashio (届八汐)

Unread as Okinoi (沖の井)

Unread [as Tsuruchiyo (鶴千代)

Unread as Unknown

Unread as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Unknown as Arajishi Otokonosuke
(荒獅子男之助)

Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩 )
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/05/02
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  This is a strange print, as there
was no production of Sendai Hagi at
the Kabuki-za in or around May 1902.
While the actors' names cannot be
clearly read, what can be read
suggests that it might reflect the cast
of a production at the Kabuki-za in
April 1908.   An on-line dealer has a
copy which purports to be dated
1912.  Could there be multiple
printings of this set over the years,
and Tsuouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy contain the first
page from one set and the last page
(with the printing information) from
another set?  Was there a revised
version of Sendai Hagi mounted at
the Kabuki-za in 1902 under a
different name?
 
 
 
 

Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
Masaoka (政岡)
Otokonosuke (男之助)
  
Play: Yukashita (床下), Act II, Scene 3 of
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 1905
Artist: Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延)
Series: Take no Hito Fushi (竹乃一節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This is a reprint of an 1898 design.  Other prints from
this series may have also been reprinted around this time.
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Masaoka (政岡)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hosokawa Katsumoto (細川勝元)
 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記);
Sakamichi Raku (酒道楽); Takarabune Haru Hatsuyume (宝船春初夢)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/06
Print Date: 01/16/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Masaoka (政岡)
 
Ichikawa Danzô VII (市川団蔵; 市川團蔵) as Nikki Danjô 仁木弾正)
 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Daigo no Hanami (醍醐の花見); Gozonji Banzui Chôbê
(御存幡随長兵衛); Harugasumi Sora-mo Sumiyoshi (春霞空住吉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/24/08
Print Date: 03/24/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Masaoka (政岡)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
 
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi  (伽羅先代萩); Gozonji Banzui Chôbei (御存幡随長兵衛);
Daikyôji Mukashi Goyomi (大経師昔暦); Waka Sanjin (和歌三神); Otsu-e (大津絵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/09
Print Date: 11/05/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                   
Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Nikki Danjô 仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩) 
Performance Place: Engi-za Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/10
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#12)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Kôzô II died on February 1934 at
age 80.
 
 

                    
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/13
Print Date: 12/1913
Artist: ?
Personal Collection

Note: The seller had attributed this print to Natori Shunsen. 
Given that it is unsigned and stylized, it is difficult to say
with any certainty who the artist is.  Moreover, the same
seller also erroneously attributed certain other prints to
Shunsen.  If it were by Shunsen,  it would be among the
earliest of Shunsen's prints.
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅男之助)
                
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩);  Sarome [Salome] (サロメ);  Bunroku Samurai Katagi
(文禄侍氣質);  Hikkoshi Sawagi (引越騒ぎ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/13
Print Date: 12/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #3
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Danjûrô VI (市川団十郎;  市川團十郎) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助), depicted in the manner of
Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊国)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 10/10/20
Artist: Kitano Tsunetomi (品川工)
Medium: woobdblock print in the book Shin Nishiki-e jô:
Ukiyo-e no kao (新錦絵帖:  浮世絵の顔)
Personal Collection

                   
Ichikawa Danjûrô VI (市川団十郎; 
市川團十郎) as Arajishi Otokonosuke
(荒獅子男之助), depicted in the manner of
Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊国)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: Kitano Tsunetomi (品川工)
Medium: Woobdblock printed pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: It is not known at this time if this
pochibukuro was printed around the same
time as the book Shin Nishiki-e jô:
Ukiyo-e no kao (新錦絵帖:  浮世絵の顔). 

                   
Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as 
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Yukashita (床下), Act II, Scene 3 of
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/31/21
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#34)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

        
Ôkabuki Engei Sugoroku (大歌舞伎 演藝双六)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection
 

3. Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)
Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)     

           
           13. Niki Danjô ( 仁木弾正)
            Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)     

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection

Note: Prior to the publication of this print, Kôshirô VII
performed this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in
April 1916.
 
 
 
 

Ichkawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo    
Performance Date: 06/06/24
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #3
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/1924
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 1
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                    
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII also portrayed this role in an April
1916 production at the Teikoku Gekijô.

                    
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
[1928 Calendar] Showa San Kotobuki Tatsu Nichiyô Kagami (昭和三寿辰日曜鑑)
 
January: Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致) and Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成) in a
Sogamono such as
Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)
February: ?
March: Ōtomo Kuronushi (大伴黒主) in Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪關扉)
April:  Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
May:  Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
June:   Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七) in Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七)
July: possibly Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平) and Okura (お軽) in  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
August: ?
September: ?
October:  Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
November: Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) in Shibaraku (暫)
December: Fujiya Izaemon (伊佐衛門) in Kuruwa Bunshô Yoshidaya
(廊文章吉田屋; 廓文章  吉田屋)

Print Date: 01/1928
Magazine: New Year's Appendix to Engei Shashin (演芸写真), Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan. 1928)
Medium: Machine printing

Note:  Hasui designed 34 machine-printed covers for Engei Shashin (and its precedessor
Engei Shashin Chô) between October 1925 and July 1928.  Many of these issues contained
machine-printed forntispieces.  Since they were offset printed, they are outside the scope
of this website.  An exception, however, has been made for this calendar, which appears to
be unique in the Hasui canon.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I    
(中村吉右衛門) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/28
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #3
Personal Collection
   

 
 
 
 

                           
        Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
        Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 10/01/28
        Print Date: [1929]
        Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
        Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
        (創作版画 春仙似顔集)
        Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Face Making-Up of Otokonosuke of Yukashita
(床下男之助の隈)

Role: Otokonosuke (男之助)
Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 4
Personal Collection
 
 

Otokonosuke (男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection
 
 
          
        

Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Otokonosuke (男之助)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: This card was probably designed
to celebrate the Year of the Rat, which
likely dates it to 1924, 1936, or 1948.
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjuro VI (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎)
[as Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)]

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 07/1953
Artist: Shinagawa Takumi (品川工)
Title: [Shade Makeup] Kuma ( 隈取)
Medium: Woodblock printed seal
Portfolio: Loving Service Seal Hanga
Image courtesy of Irwin Lavenberg
 
Note: This print was part of a larger set of images
found on a printed and perforated gummed sheet.
The portfolio also included prints by Onchi
Kôshirô (恩地孝四郎) and Kitaoka Fumio
(北岡文雄).
 
 
 
 
1974

                   
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 1974
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
*Image courtesy of Castle Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Hashinosuke III (中村橋之助) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)
[Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/02/98
Print Date: 09/1998
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Full Length Portraits - Series XII (Design 5]
Daijûni-ki Zenshin-zu Shirîzu no 5
(第十二期 全身図シリーズの5)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
Note: This design was used as the background for
Kôkei's 2006 self-portrait print.
 
 
 

                 
[Me, Profile]  Yokogao no ga (横顔の我)

Print Date:  2006 (ed. 5)
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Medium: Woodblock print printed with sumi ink
Series: [Me Series (Design 3)] Ga no Rensaku no 3 (我の連作の1)
Personal Collection (#2/5)
 
Note: Two copies were monotypes printed with oil based paints and three
copies were printed with sumi ink.  The picture in the background is based
on Kokei's1989 woodblock print of Nakamura Hashinosuke III (中村橋之助) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助) in Sendai Hagi (先代萩) [Meiboku Sendai
Hagi (伽羅先代萩)], which was performed at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in August
1998.

                 
[Me, Profile]  Yokogao no ga (横顔の我)

Print Date:  2006 (ed. 5)
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Medium: Woodblock print with oil based paints
Series: [Me Series (Design 3)] Ga no Rensaku no 3 (我の連作の1)
Personal Collection (#*/5)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com (#*/5)
 
Note: It is unclear if this is the second of the two monotypes printed with oil
based prints or the same monotype photographed under different lighting
conditions.
 
 
 
 

                 
[Me, Profile]  Yokogao no ga (横顔の我)

Print Date:  2006 (ed. 5)
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Medium: Woodblock print printed in sumi ink
Series: [Me Series (Design 3)] Ga no Rensaku no 3 (我の連作の1)
Personal Collection (#*/5)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com (#*/5)
 

                 
[Nikki Danjo (仁木弾正)]  Kagetori (影取)                              
 
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助) Daido (大道)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: 2003
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光) (2003)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 16)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo
 
 

                   
Nedoshi ni In mo (子歳に因も):
Yukashita no Arajishi Otokonosuke
(床下の荒獅士男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Edo Tako-e (江戸凧繪)
Image courtesy of Henk Herwig

                 
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩) 
Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 13)
Image courtesy of Eldred's
 
 
 
 

                   
Otokonosuke (男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery

Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
 
Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: 盛會御禮  
Personal Collection
 

Soga Gorô Tokimune
(曾我五郎時致)

Play: Yanone (矢の根)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection
 
 
                      
       

         
        Jitsukawa Enjaku II
        (実川延若; 實川延若) as
        Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
        (伽羅先代萩)
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        matchbook cover
 
 
                      
       

       
         Otokonosuke (男之助)
 
        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
        (伽羅先代萩)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Kumadori (隈取)
        Personal Collection
 
 

        

Otokodate (男伊達)
 
Play:  Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: (Year of the Rat)
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: Ôno Shin (大野信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
    
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play:  Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)