ONOE SHÔROKU II (尾上松緑)
03/28/1913 - 06/25/1989

 

FEBRUARY 1948

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as Sagami Gorō (相模五郎)?
 
Onoe Shôroku II (市川松緑) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Tôkyō Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1948
Print Date: 02/1948?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Tô Kyôgen Kabuki Nishikie (当狂言歌舞伎錦絵)
Image courtesy of a Private Collector
 
 

 

SEPTEMBER 1948


? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo           
Performance Date: 09/1948
Print Date: 09/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Mitsukoshi Kabuki Hanga (三越歌舞伎版画)
Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color on verso
Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com

Note: The plays and dances on the September 1948 bill at
the Mitsukoshi Gekijô were Daiganjôju Tengajaya-mura
(大願成就天下茶屋聚); Sarutori (さる酉; 申酉);
Karigane (雁がね; 雁金); Tonbi Yakko (とんび奴; 鳶奴);
and Ryogoku no Aki (兩國の秋).  The print most likely
depicts Onoe Shoroku II ( 尾上松緑) as Adachi
Motouemon (安達元右衛門) in Daiganjôju Tengajaya-
mura.

            
            Three Dance Performances:
            Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
            Tobi no Mono Matsukichi (鳶の者松吉)

            Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as
            Yatsutaki Taira (奴瀧平)
 
            Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
            Benten Oteru (弁天おてる)
            
            Plays: Sarutori (さる酉; 申酉); Tonbi
            Yakko (とんび奴; 鳶奴); Karigane
            (雁がね; 雁金)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/1948
            Print Date: 09/1948?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Mitsukoshi Kabuki Hanga
            (三越歌舞伎版画)
            Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com



FEBRUARY 1949

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Ôtomo Kuronushi (大伴黒主)

Play:  Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (
積恋雪関扉; 積戀雪關扉)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/49
Print Date: 04/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 


JULY 1949


                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô
Performance Date: 07/05/49
Print Date: 1955?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#12)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum




JANUARY 1951

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Eizan no Sôchichû (叡山の僧智籌)

Play: Tsuchi Gumo (土蜘)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1951
Print Date: 11/1951
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
 



                   



JANUARY 1952

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勸進帳; 勧進帳)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/52
Print Date: 03/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
 
 




APRIL 1954

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)

Play:  Hashi Benkei (橋辨橋; 橋弁慶)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)

Note: The first record I could find of Shôroku II
performing this role was at the Kabuki-za in May
1956.  Either the print reflects a performance outside
of Tokyo or it depicts Benkei in a different play.
 



OCTOBER 1955

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Kômori Yasu Gorô (蝙蝠安五郎)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1955
Print Date: 11/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery






MARCH 1956

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play:  Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/56
Print Date: 04/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection





MARCH 1957

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)

Play:Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/57
Print Date: 03/1957?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)

Note: Shôroku II also performed the role in
January 1956 at the Shinbashi Enbujô.  It is
possible that this print depicts that performance.  
Although purporting to be hanga genga in the
2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs, it appears to
be a finished painting and I have not found a
hand-colored keyblock print for this design.
 
 


NOVEMBER 1980

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1980
Print Date: 11/11/80
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits II (Design 3)]
Daini-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 3
(第二期大首絵シリーズの3)
Personal Collection (#34/36)

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 Kokei (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).
 
 
 
 



FEBRUARY 1983

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Yashû Mushuku Tomizô (野州無宿富蔵)

Play: Shisenryô (四千両)
[Shisenryô Koban no Umenoha (四千両小判梅葉)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/83
Print Date: 02/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 16)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 16
(第三期大首絵シリーズの16)
Personal Collection (#3/27)
 



NOVEMBER 1983

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁)  as
Sekimori Sekibê (関守関兵衛)

Play: Seki no To (関の扉)
[Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/83
Print Date: 11/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 27)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 27
(第三期大首絵シリーズの27)
Personal Collection (#3/36)
 
 
 
 


SEPTEMBER 1984

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as
Kisen Hôshi (喜撰法師)

Dance: Kisen (喜撰)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/03/84
Print Date: 09/1984
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 5)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 5
(第三期大首絵シリーズの5)
Personal Collection (#32/45)
 
 



NOVEMBER 1988

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as
Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経)

Play: Soga no Taimen (対面)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1988
Print Date: 01/1989
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VII (Design 1)]
Dainana-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第七期大首絵シリーズの1)
Personal Collection (#33/90)    
 
 


UNKNOWN DATE

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as 
Hidari Jingorô (左甚五郎 )
      
Nakamura Utaemon  VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
           
Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: I have been unable to find a performance
by both of these actors in the same play at the
same time.
 
 
 
 


                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
           
Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Onoe Shôroku II performed this role 8 times since 1948, the
last time being at the Kokuritsu Gekijô in January 1971.
 


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