SOGAMONO
(曾我物)

               
[Ancient Customs of Early Spring and the Soga Brothers]
Hatsuharu no Koshiki to Sōga no Kazukazu (初春の古式と曾我の数々)

Play: Some Soga-mono
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1908)
 
 

               
[Sôga Brothers] Sôga Kyôdai (曾我兄弟)
 
Play: Some Soga-mono
Artist: Odake Kokkan (尾竹国観; 尾竹國觀)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 2, No. 6 (June 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               

Play: Some Soga-mono
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1911)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: Given that all the other 1911 covers of Engei Gahô were
by Hayashi Ryokusui (林緑水), it is likely that he designed this
cover as well.
 
 

                 
 
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
 
Note: The cover possibly depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Ochikubo Koshirô (落窪小四郎)
and Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in Higo no Kami Kiyomasa
(肥後守清正).
 
 

                 
Horikoshi Fukusaburô (堀越福三郎) as Kaegagoro (替我五郎)
 
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Haha Manjô (母滿江)
 
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
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Mori Ranmaru (森蘭丸), 
Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長),  Ichikawa Monnosuke VI
(市川門之助) as Odai (おだい),  Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as Matsumushi (松虫), and 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Hayashi Shinroku (林新六) in Chukô Shigure no Matsu
(忠孝時雨松); and Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧), Nakamura
Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門), and  ? as ? in Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章).
 
 

[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.