SHINJÛ TEN NO AMIJIMA
(心中天網島)

aka SHINJÛ KAMIYA JIHÊ (中紙屋治兵衛)
aka SAYO SHIGURE TEN NO AMIJIMA (小夜時雨天網島)
aka KOTATSU (炬燵)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Koharu (小春)



Play: Sayo Shigure Ten no Amijima
(小夜時雨天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/1900
Print Date: 10/15/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

  Bandô Shûchô II (坂東秀調) as
  Nyôbô Osan 女房おさん

                   
   Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
   Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

                
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)
 
Plays: Shinchôki Atago Renga (信長記愛宕連歌); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Sayo Shigure Ten no Amijima (小夜時雨天網島); Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/00
Print Date: 10/13/00
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  While the right character is not entirely clear, I believe it is Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎)
as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長) in Shinchôki Atago Renga (信長記愛宕連歌).
 

                 
 
Plays: Kawanakajima Kassen (川中島合戦); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Shinonome (東雲); Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Kioi Jishi Matsuri Nigiwai (勢獅子祭賑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/10/06
Print Date: 10/10/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Nobi (野火);  Yoshitsune Koshigoejô (義経腰越状); Goban Tadanobu (碁盤忠信); 
Sayo Shigure Ten no Amijima (小夜時雨天網島); Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/11
Print Date: 11/01/1911
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
   

 Koharu (小春)
 
Play:  Shinjû Ten no Amija (心中天網島)
Print Date:  1911
Artist: Kaburagi Kiyokata (鏑木清方)
Publication: Bungei Kurabu (文芸倶楽部), Vol. 17-13
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Shukado Co. Ltd.
 
 
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Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 
 

            
            Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) as
            Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)
           
            Play: Kotatsu (炬燵)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 01/02/12
            Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

                 
Osan (おさん)

Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  01/25/14
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed cover for Chikamatsu no Hitobito (近松の人々) by Takasu Baikei (高須梅渓)
Personal Collection

Note: This copy was the 5th edition published on May 23, 1916, but presumably had the same cover
and frontispiece as the original 1914 edition.  It appears to depict a bunraku puppet production of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima.
 

                 
[Shinmachi Bridge] Shinmachi-hashi (新町橋)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  01/25/14
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed frontispiece for Chikamatsu no
Hitobito (近松の人々) by Takasu Baikei (高須梅渓)
Personal Collection

Note: This copy was the 5th edition published on May 23, 1916,
but presumably had the same cover and frontispiece as the
original 1914 edition.  It is unclear is the frontispiece bears any
relationship to the bunraku puppet play depicted on the book's
cover.  It has been included on this site in an abundance of caution.
 

                 
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of The Art of Japan

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.

                 
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Original Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).
 
 

                 
Koharu (小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of The Art of Japan

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.
 
 
 
 

                 
Koharu (小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of Art Shop Ezoshi

Note: Color variant of the first edition printed by Minatoya.

                 
Koharu (小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Original Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;  澤村宗十郎)
as Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助)
as Kinokuniya Koharu (紀の国屋小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

                 
 
Plays: Taka Osange (高尾さんげ); Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Sumidagawa (隅田川);
Yoshiware Suzume (吉原雀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 06/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                    
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

Play: Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵), a version of Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/11/16
Print Date: 1916
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: On'na Kabuki (女歌舞伎); Kajiwara Heizô Tameshi no Wazamono (梶原平三試名劒);
Suzu-ga-mori (鈴ヶ森); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Noriaibune (乗合船惠萬歳)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/11/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛; 紙屋治兵衛)
      
Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/06/17
Print Date: 1917?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: It is possible that this postcard reflects
Ganjirô I's performance at the Shintomi-za in
February 1916.
 
 
 
 

               
                Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
                Konaya Magoemon (粉屋孫右衛門)
           
                Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網嶋)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 04/06/17
                Print Date: 04/1917?
                Artist: Baidô Kunihide (梅堂国秀)
                Series: Shin Kyogen (新狂言) #4
                Personal Collection
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Kawashô (河庄), Act I of Shinjû Ten no
Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naniwa-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/31/18
Print Date:  01/28/19
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Hyôban Rien Tansei (評判梨園丹青)
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I first portrayed Kamiya Jihê in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-za in October 1906.  He reprised the role at
the Shintomi-za in May 1911 and October 1916, and
at the Kabuki-za in April 1917.  It is possible that this
print depicts one of those earlier performances.
 
 
 

                 
[Jihê's Mask] Jihê no Masuku  (治兵衛のマスク)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  1920
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.

                 
[Jihê's Mask] Jihê no Masuku  (治兵衛のマスク)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Original Print Date:  1920

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).

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Plays: Takiguchi Tokiyori (瀧口時頼); Akujyô no Kyôjin (屋上の狂人); Shinjû Ten no Amijima
(心中天網島); Sekenmizu (世間見ず)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ganjirô also performed this play at the Shintomi-za in
Tokyo in November 1922, but I assume that Kanpo, a Kyoto
artist, saw it in Osaka.  It is also possible that it was
performed in  Kyoto somewhere around this same time.
  
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a color variant test print lacking a mica background.
  
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Plays: Futatsu no Yagura (二の櫓); Katakiuchi Ranru Nishiki (敵討襤褸錦);
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Oschichi (お七)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/04/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Futatsu no Yagura (二の櫓); Katakiuchi Ranru Nishiki (敵討襤褸錦);
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Oshichi (お七)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/04/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Koharu (小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天の網島)
Print Date: c. 1922-1923
Artist: Kikuchi Keigetsu (菊池契月)
Series: Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu Furoku Mokuhan (大近松全集 付録木版)
Image courtesy of the Scholten Gallery
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 06/09/23
Print Date: 1923
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
 

                 
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Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 06/09/23
Print Date: 1923
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
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Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎; 中村鴈治郎) as 
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play:  Shinjû Kamiya Jihê (心中紙屋治兵衛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 04/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Ganjirô I also portrayed Kamiya Jihê in a
production of Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
at the Shintomi-za in November 1922.  I cannot rule
out the possibility that this print reflects that
performance.
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Genpei Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧); Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/27/26
Print Date: 07/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima
(心中天網嶋; 心中天網島)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/20/26
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 7 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物 大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

   Kinokuniya Koharu (紀の国屋小春)
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   Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)
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   Konaya Magoemon (粉屋孫右衛門)
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Placement of characters on stage design
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  Stage Design
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[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎 as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Publication Date: 1927
Artist: ?
 
 
 
 

Plays: Genpei Seisuiki (源平盛衰記); Nanbuzaka (南部坂); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵); Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/03/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Genpei Seisuiki (源平盛衰記); Nanbuzaka (南部坂); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵); Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/03/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Saigou to Ôkubo (西郷と大久保); On'na Shibaraku (女暫); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵); Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛); Kioi Jishi Minori no Iwai (勢獅子大典奉祝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Jishô  no Aki (治承の秋); Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税);  Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji
(京鹿子娘道成寺); Shinju Kamiya Jihê (心中紙屋治兵衛); Jûnidan Koi no Kakehashi (十二段恋契)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/02/31
Print Date: 06/1931?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Jishô  no Aki (治承の秋); Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税);  Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji
(京鹿子娘道成寺); Shinju Kamiya Jihê (心中紙屋治兵衛); Jûnidan Koi no Kakehashi (十二段恋契)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/02/31
Print Date: 06/1931?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shigure Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/31
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#15)
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.  Ganjirô I died on February 1, 1935 at
age 76.  He first played the role of Kamiya Jihê in this play
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in October 1906 (he had played
it in Osaka as far back as February 1885).  Although
Ganjirô I's final Tokyo appearance in this role was at the
Kabuki-za in November 1931, it is possible that Gakô
based this print on one of Ganjirô I's prior performances.
(His final Tokyo appearance in the first act, Kawashô
(河庄), was at the Kabuki-za in June 1931.)
 
 
 
  

               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shigure Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/31
Print Date: 1953
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#11)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ganjirô I first played the role of Kamiya Jihê in this
play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in October 1906 (he had
played it in Osaka as far back as February 1885).  Although
Ganjirô I's final Tokyo appearance in this role was at the
Kabuki-za in November 1931, it is possible that Gakô based
this print on one of Ganjirô I's prior performances.  Indeed,
the actor looks considerably younger here than in Ota's other
portrait of Ganjirô I.  (His final Tokyo appearance in the first
act, Kawashô (河庄), was at the Kabuki-za in June 1931.)

Play: Shinjū Ten no Amijima (心中天綱島)
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: Gidayû Bushi (義太夫節)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjiro I (中村雁治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play:  Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima  (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Ôsaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 03/1933
Print Date: 11/1933
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Ganjirô Jûnikyoku no Uchi
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Print Date: February? 1935     
Artist: Yamaguchi Sohei (山口草平)              ``
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This is a memorial print for Yamaguchi Sohei, who
died on February 1, 1935.  Ganjirô I played the role of
Kamiya Jihei dozens of times between at least 1886 and
1933.
 
 
 
 

           
            Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
            Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)

            Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
            Print Date: February? 1935   
            Artist: Yamaguchi Sohei (山口草平)     
            Image courtesy of Artelino.com

            Note: This is a color variant of the memorial print for Ganjirô I .

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛; 紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1951
Print Date: 02/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)
 
Kinokuniya Koharu (紀の国屋小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
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
 
 
 

                 
Puppeteer, [Kiritake] Monjûrô (Bunraku)
Ningyôdzukai, Monjūrô (Bunraku)
(人形使い、[桐竹]紋十郎（文楽))

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Print Date:  1954
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
*Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Note: The puppets are Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) (right),
Osui (おすい), the daughter of Jihê (center), and
Koharu Koharu (小春) (left)
 
 
 
 
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Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play:  Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu IV (長谷川貞信)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #3
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Senjaku II (中村扇雀の紀) as
Kinokuniya Koharu (国屋小春)

Play: Kawashô ( 河庄), Act I of
Shinju Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1979
Print Date: 01/10/79
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 7)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 7
(第一期大首絵シリーズの7)
Personal Collection (ed. 36)
 
Note: Color variants of this print exist.

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Kawashô ( 河庄), Act I of
Shinju Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1979
Print Date: 01/10/79
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 8)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 8
(第一期大首絵シリーズの8)
Personal Collection (ed. 45)

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences I (01/1999).  Color variants of this print exist.
 
 
 
 

                 
Reminiscences I (思い出 I)

Print Date:  01/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#15/72)

Note: 35 copies from the edition of 72 were never printed.  Given
the difficulty in photographing this print in view of its large size, I
have used the image on the Kôkei website in lieu of one of my
own numbered copy.  This print contains larger versions of the
following actors' faces (left to right starting at the top row):

1. Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as Tsurigane Gonsuke (釣鐘権助) in
Sakurahime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/1981).
2. Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (澤村宗十郎) as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
3. Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Kawashô, Act I of  Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1979).
4. Onoe Tatsunosuke I (尾上辰之助) as Naosuke Gonbê (直助権兵衛) in
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/02/1983).
5. Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景情) in
Kagekiyo (景清), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/02/1984).
6. Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧) in
Yoshidaya (吉田屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1983).
7. Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉)/Byakko (白狐) in
Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/01/1986).
8. Kawarazaki Gonjurô III (河原崎権十郎) as Sashichi (佐七) in
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1987).
9. Nakamura Tomijûrô V (中村富十郎) as Kô no Moronô (高師直) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1986).
10. Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門) as Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助) in
Keya-mura (毛谷村), Act IX of Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
(彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1997).
11. Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門) as Sakuraya Koman (桜屋小万) in
Godairiki Koi no Fujime (五大力恋緘), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (09/01/1989).
12. Ichikawa Danshirô IV ( 市川段四郎) as Yasha Gorô (夜叉五郎) in
Jiraiya (児雷也), Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo (11/01/1992).
 
 
 
 

                 
Bunraku-Osan (文楽 [おさん])

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima  (心中天網島)
Print Date: 1987 (ed. 30)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Etching/Silkscreen
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/96
Print Date: 03/1996
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits XI (Design 1)]
Daijûichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第十一期大首絵シリーズの1)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences II (01/2000).
 
 
 
   

                 
Reminiscences II (思い出 II)

Print Date:  01/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Note: This print contains larger versions of
the following actors' faces (left to right
starting at the top row):

1. Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
2. Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as Hannyo (斑女) in
Sumidagawa (隅田川), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1981).
3. Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (11/1980).
4. Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo (10/04/1986).
5. Nakamura Kanzaburô XVlI (中村勘三郎) as Danjô Imôto Yashio (弾正妹八汐) in
Sendai Hagi (先代萩), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/01/1983)
6. Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as Fujioka Tôjûrô (藤岡藤十郎) in
Shisenryô (四千両), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1983).
7. Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Yûjo Okaru (遊女おかる) in
Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1988).
8. Jitsukawa Enjaku III (實川延若) as Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作) in
Nozakimura (野崎村), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1989).
9. Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as Benten Kozô (弁天小僧) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1995).
10. Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in
Terakoya (寺子屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1997).
11. Sawamura Tanosuke VI (澤村田之助) as Mitsuhide Tsuma Satsuki (光秀妻皐月) in
Kikyô no Hataage (桔梗旗揚), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1997).
12. Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1996).
 
 
 
 

                 
2000 Holiday Card depicting
Jihê (治兵衛) and Koharu (小春)?

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima 
(心中天網島)?
Print Date: c. 01/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima  (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III  (長谷川貞信)
Personal Collection

                   
[Osan (おさん)] ?

[Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)] ?

Play:  [Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)] ?
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: ?
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô I
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

        Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima
        (心中天網嶋; 心中天網島)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Ganjirô Tôri Kyogen
        Nigaoe Jû-shu Part 1
        (玩辞楼当利狂言
        似顔絵十種 其一)
        Personal Collection

        Note: Ganjirô I played the role
        of Kamiya Jihei dozens of times
        between  at least 1886 and
        1933.
 
 
 

Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)
 
Kinokuniya Koharu (紀の国屋小春)

Tanaka Magoemon (多奈孫右衛門)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Print Date: ?
      
Note: Color images are not currently available.

        
        Nakamura Ganjirô I or II
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛;
        紙屋治兵衛)
       
        Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima
        (心中天網島)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
   
        Note: This was a signature
        role for both Ganjirô I and II.
        A postcard  with a 1957
        stamp is in the Hasegawa
        Sadanobue  - Undated
        Postcards section,
        suggesting that it is Ganjirô
        II, but the design could also
        have been reprinted.
 
 
 
 

       
        Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
        Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛; 紙屋治兵衛)

        Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: pre-1957
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: Ganjirô II performed this role in
        Tokyo prior to the postmark at the Shinbashi
        Enbujô in September 1948, at the Meiji-za
        in February 1951, and at the Kabuki-za  in
        August 1954.  A related pochibukuro can
        be found in the Hasegawa Sadanobu III -
        Undated Pochibukuro #2 section.
 
 

       
        Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀)  as
        Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

        Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima
        (心中天網嶋; 心中天網島)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

Koharu (小春)
 
Play: Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨炬燵), Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima  (心中天網島)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
  

               
                ? as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)
 
                ? as Koharu (小春)
 
                ? as Magoemon (孫右衛門)

                Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)