BANDÔ SHÛCHÔ III (坂東秀調)
11/07/1880 - 09/22/1935

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Oen (おえん; お娟)

Play:  Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/17
Print Date: 09/15/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: [Fujisawa Print Set #1]
Personal Collection
 
 

Bandô Shûchô III as Ofude (お筆)

Play: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/18
Print Date: 01/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)  #5
^Personal Collection
 
 

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Ofude (お筆)
 
Play: Hirakana Seisuiki
(ひらがな盛衰記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/18
Print Date: 01/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Medium: woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
 

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Niho Teru Tayû (鳰照太夫)
            
Play: Niho no Ukisu (鳰の浮巣; にほの浮巣) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/04/18
Print Date: 10/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Koume (小梅)
 
Play: Mukae Kago [Koume Yoshibê]
(迎駕篭 [小梅由兵衛])
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Tokiwa Gozen (常盤御前)
 
Play: Ichijô Ôkura Monogatari
(一條大蔵譚),) which appears
to be a version of Act IV, Scene 3 of
Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/20
Print Date: 01/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Bandô Shûchô III  (坂東秀調) as
Omatsu (おまつ)
           
Play: Kamiko Jitate Ryômen Kagami
(紙子仕立両面鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/08/20
Print Date: 06/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as Sadarae (簓江)
           
Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo (鎮西八郎為朝)
 
Kataoka Ichizô IV  (片岡市蔵) as Oni Yasha (鬼夜叉)
 
Plays: Muromachi Gosho (室町御所); Aki no Wakare (秋の別れ); Nani Ôshima Homare no
Tsuyoyumi (名大島功譽強弓); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/22
Print Date: 12/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫) and
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信) in Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝); and
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Yoshiteru (義輝), Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升;
市川三舛) as Iwatsuki Suisuke (岩槻主水助), Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Ikeda Tango no Kami
Masatake (池田丹後守将武), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tamon (多門) in
Muromachi Gosho (室町御所).
 

 
Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Nyôbô Osetsu (女房おせつ)
        
Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/24
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) [#A]
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Bandô Shuchô III (坂東秀調) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅), Act IV,
Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date: 1925
Artist:  Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#7)
Personal Collection
 

[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.
 

           
            Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
            Shiinkichi (新吉)
 
            Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as 
            Ohisa (お久)
                       
            Play: Shinkei Kasane-ga-Fuchi (真景累ヶ淵)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo       
            Performance Date: 08/10/26
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Machine printed lithograph
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as Okaru (お軽)


Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura 
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/28
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)  (#16)
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.  Shûchô III died on September 22,
1935 at age 56.  He first played the role of Okaru in
Tokyo in April 1912, and his final Tokyo appearance in
this role was in November 1928 at the  Shinjuku
Shinkabuki-za. This print, however, closely resembles
a photograph from the November 1928 production at
the Hongô-za.
 
 

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as Bijin (美女)
           
Play: ?
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1920
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

           
            Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
            Nureginu (濡衣)
 
            Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
            (本朝廿四孝)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
 
            Note: Shûchô III performed this
            role in Tokyo at the Hongô-za in
            November 1913 and at the
            Teikoku Gekijô in December
            1922.