SOGAMONO
(曾我物)

                 
 
Plays: Chikamatsu Kaikei Soga (近松会稽曽我); Higo no Kami Kiyomasa (肥後守清正);
Migawa Zazen (身替座禅);   Koi Sumô Haru Kaobure (恋相撲春顔触); Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (寿靭猿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/17/12
Print Date: 02/17/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Chukô Shigure no Matsu (忠孝時雨松); Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記); Soga Kyôdai (曾我兄弟);
Osaragi Kuyô (大佛供養); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/03/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kotobuki Saruwaka (壽猿若); Ôgi Fuji Hôrai Sôga (扇富士蓬莱曾我); Yoshino Shizuka (吉野静);
Nanbyô Dereteria (難病デレテリア)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/19
Print Date: 01/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

[Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)?]

Print Date: 1953
Artist: Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆)
Series: [The West and the East No. 12: Booklet of the Vacation Trip]
Sochu Sohon. No. 12: Higashi Nishi; Yuko Cho (東西(遊行帖)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
[Face to Face] Taiketsu (対決)
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎) and enemy

Play: ?
Print Date: 1969
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: A related version appears to dated 1970.
 
 

                   
[A Broad Sword] Danbira (だんびら)
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1970
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
 
 

                   
[Gorô on Horseback] Bashô no Gorô (馬上の五郎)
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1972
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
 
 

                   
[Ready To Strike]
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)
 
Play: ?
Print Date: 1979
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art
 
 

                   
[Goro in the Rain]
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)
 
Play: ?
Print Date: 1984
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of The Ren Brown Collection
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as ?



Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection   

Note: The publisher information and artist cartouche
suggest that this print was likely made around the same
time as two known 1914 prints by Shunsen.  The
butterflies on Kichiemon I's Kichiemon I's kimono also
suggest that the character might be Soga Gorô Tokimune
(曾我五郎時致), but I can find no record of Kichiemon I
playing this character in any play prior to 1929.  One
possibility, however, is that the print depicts Kichiemon I
as Ôguchiya Gyôu (大口屋暁雨) in the play Kyôkaku
Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘), commonly known as
Harusame Gasa (春雨傘) or Jitsuroku no Sukeroku
(実録の助六).  Kichiemon I performed in a production
of  Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa at the Ichimura-za in
January 1913.
 

                           
        Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

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

        Note: This design is very similar to one produced in 1970.