Shibaraku (暫)

SHIBARAKU
(暫)

1940

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Date: 1940
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban no Uchi (歌舞伎十八番の内)
Image courtesy of the Asian Collection Internet Auction

[Kiyohara no Takehira (清原武衡)]
[Makeup of an Evil Nobleman] Kugeaku no Kuma (公家悪之隈)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1940
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Jûhachiban (隈取十八番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This was evidently the version of the makeup devised
by Nakajima Mihoemon I (中島三甫右衛門).

1941

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

1941 or 1942

[Genroku Period Makeup of Kamakura Gongorô (鎌倉権五郎)]
Ganzo Saigyô Genroku Shibaraku no Men (元祖才牛元禄暫ノ面).

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
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 National Museum of Tokyo

Note: This was the makeup devised by [Ichikawa]
Saigyû Danjûrô I (才牛団十郎).

NOVEMBER 1948

Kamakura Gongorô (鎌倉権五郎)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 11/1948
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Awase (歌舞伎隈取合)
Image courtesy of the Asian Collection Internet Auction

1950

November (11月): Kamakura Gongorô (鎌倉権五郎)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1950
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: [Calendar of Kabuki Actors] Kabuki Sugata-goyomi
(歌舞伎姿暦)
^Personal Collection

1951

[Kabuki Calendar] Kabuki Karendâ (歌舞伎カレンダー) cover
depicting Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: [Kabuki Calendar] Kabuki Karendâ (歌舞伎カレンダー)
Medium: Colored woodblock print, possibly with hand-applied color
on verso
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson

DECEMBER 1953

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 12/01/53
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 3, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection (#114)

1954

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)]

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Date: 1954
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prings of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言歌舞伎木版画集) Series 1
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

1963

[Play on Sharaku: Ruffian]
Gisaku Sharaku Aragoto (戯似 Sharaku あら事)　

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hatsuyama Shigure (初山滋)
Personal Collection (#15/16)

[Pseudo Sharaku / Aragoto]
Gisaku Sharaku Aragoto (戯似 Sharaku あら事)　

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hatsuyama Shigure (初山滋)
Image courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Note: Color variant. The LACMA copy (ex. Juda Collection)
is entitled "Samurai" on its website, and the image is
rotated 90 degrees to the right.

1965

Shibaraku (D) (暫 (D))
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1965
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1965
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

[Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1965?
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)

1966

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1966
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Title: Kumadori I
Personal Collection (#1/50)

Note: Copies dated 1967 are also known to exist.

1967

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Shibaraku (B) (暫 (B))
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Woodblock printed exhibition catalog cover for
the Twelfth Annual Exhibition of The College Women's
Association of Japan
Image courtesy of the British Museum

Note The cover design is a version of the Shibaraku (B)
stencil print.

Shibaraku (C) (暫 (C)) aka [[Striking A Pose]
Mie wo Kiru (見得を切る)]
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the British Museum

[Assuming a Posture] 見得 (Mie)
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available.
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.

[Assuming a Posture (B)] 見得 (B) (Mie (B))
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available.
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.

1969

[Shibaraku with Iron Fan] Tessen wo Motsu Shibaraku
(i鉄扇を持つ暫)
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1969
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

1970

[Shibaraku with Iron Fan] Tessen wo Motsu Shibaraku
(i鉄扇を持つ暫)
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1970
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This design is very similar to a version produced
in 1969.

1972

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1972
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 100)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1972
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery

Note: A seemingly identical copy was produced in an
edition of 150 in 1974.

1974

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1974
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 150)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery

Note: A seemingly identical copy was produced without
an edition number in 1972.

1975

[Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1975
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

1976

Shibaraku (暫)
[Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)]

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1976
Artist: Al Hirschfeld
Series: Kabuki
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection (#263/275)

Note: Although this is likely an idealized portrait,
there was a production of this play in September
1975 in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za which Hirschfeld
may have seen with Ichikawa Somegorô VI
(市川染五郎) as Gongorô.

[Ichikara Danjûrô's Crest] Mimasu (三ます)
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1976
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

1977

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

1979

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1979
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)

1982

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1982
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Title: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Personal Collection (AP; ed. 100)

Note: The figure in the lower right would appear to be the ghost of Taira-no-Tomomori (平知盛) in
Funa Benkei (船辨慶). It is possible that the figure at the lower left is Ôboshi Yuranosuke
(大星由良之助) in Kanadehon Chushingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵). This particular AP is
actually dated 1983, which could either mean it was dated by hand when it was sold after the edition
was made in 1982 or the 1982 publication date (which came from a dealer's website) was in error.

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa
(鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1982
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Series: Chûshingura Jûni-kei (忠臣蔵十二競)
Medium: ?

Note: This image on the storage box comes from
Karhu's 1992 print "Kabuki-za, Tokyo." It is unclear if
the box contains a woodblock print printed on fabric,
or if it is offset printed.

1983

Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1983
Artist: Clifton Karhu
Image courtesy of Serge Astieres

Note: Ebizô X performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in November 1981. It is possible that he
also performed the role in Kyoto around that time.

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1983
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1983
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: This is believed to be a woodblock print,
not a stencil print.