SHINREI YAGUCHI NO WATASHI
(神霊矢口渡)

aka YAGUCHI NO WATASHI (矢口渡)

Ichikawa Gonjûrô I  (市川権十郎; 市川權十郎) as
Minase Rokurô (南瀬六郎)

Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as 
Yura Hyôgonosuke (由良兵庫助)

Nakamura Kashô  I (中村歌昇) as Tsukuba Gozen (筑波御前)

Ichikawa Botan II (市川ぼたん) as Tokujumaru (侑寿丸)
[Tomochiyomaru （友千代丸）]

Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/03
Print Date: 01/10/03
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 

           
            Ichikawa Yonezô  IV.5 (市川米蔵) as  
            Ofune (おふね)

            Ichikawa Kodanji V
            (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
            Rokuzô (六蔵)

            Ichikawa Sadanji I
            (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
            Tonbê (頓兵)

            Play: Shinrei  Yaguchi no Watashi
            (神霊矢口渡)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 01/14/03
            Print Date: 04/24/03?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
            Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

Tonbê  (頓兵)
Ofune (おふね)     
Minase Rokurô (南瀬六郎)

Play: Act IV, Scene 3 of Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Print Date: 1905
Artist: Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延)
Series: Take no Hito Fushi (竹乃一節)
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Note: This is likely a reprint of a pre-1900 design.  Other prints from
this series may have also been reprinted around this time.
 
 
 

                 
 
Play: Ume Yanagi Sakura no Kagazome (梅柳桜幸染); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺);
Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡); Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/27/09
Print Date: 02/27/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Takezawa Kenmotsu (竹澤監物)

Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Yura Hyôgonosuke Nobutada (由良兵庫助信忠)

Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection

                 
 
Plays: Shikorobiki (錣引); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡);
Shûshin no Oni (執心の鬼); Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/26/15
Print Date: 11/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Onoe Tamizô III (尾上多見蔵) as
Tonbei (頓兵衛)
 
Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)    
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/21
Print Date: 03/1921?
Artist: ?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
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Note: This print is similar in format to the series of prints
designed  by Kunisada III between 1917 and 1920, and
was probably issued by the publisher in a limited attempt
to continue the series after Kunisada III's death in 1920. 
It is also possible that it is a posthumous reissue of an
unknown Kunisada III design.
 
 
 
   

                    
Plays: Dankyô (斷橋); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神靈矢口渡);  Yasuna (保名); Musuko (息子);
Kyôkaku Harusame Kasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Yoyogi no Kamikaze (代々木の神風); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡);
Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曾我對面); Ibaraki (茨木); Osada no Adauchi (おさだの仇討);
Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操り三番叟); Nochi no Tsuki Shuen Shimadai (后月酒宴島臺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/28
Print Date: 01/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi ((神霊矢口渡))
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)
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Ichikawa Danshirô IV (市川段四郎) as
Watashimori Tonbê (渡し守頓兵衛)

Play: Yaguchi no Watashi (矢口渡) 
[Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/87
Print Date: 01/1988
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Scenes from the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Rokkei
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六景)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵)  as
Ofune (お舟)
 
Ichikawa Otora VI (市川男寅) as
as Rokuzô (六蔵)

Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 7-22, 2001
Print Date: 2001
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Nozaki-mura (野崎村),
Fuji Musume (藤娘), Modori Kago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩),
Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡), and Ninin Dôjôji
(二人道成寺).  It starred Nakamura Jakuemon, Nakamura
Shibajaku VII (中村芝雀), Ichikawa Sadanji IV (市川左団次;
市川左團次), Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵), Ôtani
Tomoemon VIII (大谷友右衛門), Sawamura Tetsunosuke V
(沢村鉄之助; 澤村鐵之助, Ichikawa Otora VI (市川男寅), and
Sawamura Sônosuke III (沢村宗之助;  澤村宗之助).
 
 
 
 

Ôtani Tomoemon VI
(大谷友右衛門) as
Tonbê (頓兵衛)

Play:  Shinrei Yaguchi no
Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Tomoemon VI performed
this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijô in March 1923.