UME YANAGI SAKIGAKE SOGA
(梅柳魁曾我)

aka KICHIREI KOTOBUKI SOGA (吉例壽曾我)
aka KICHIREI SOGA (吉例曾我)
aka SOGA NO ISHIDAN (曽我の石段; 曾我の石段)

 
Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as
Kisegawa Kametsuru (喜瀬川亀鶴)

Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次;
市川左団次) as
Soga Jûrô (曽我十郎)

Play: Kichirei Soga (吉例曽我)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/1900
Print Date: 12/20/1899?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Metropolitan Central Library

Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) as
Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)

Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Ômi Kotôta (近江小藤太)
 

    
      Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次;
      市川左団次) as Soga Jûrô (曽我十郎)
     
      Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
      市川左團次) as Ômi Kotôta
      (近江小藤太)
     
      Unread as Unknown
     
      Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
      市川小團次) as
      Yawata Saburô (八幡三郎)

      Play: Kichirei Soga (吉例曽我)
      Performance Place: Meijki-za, Tokyo
      Performance Date: 01/14/1900
      Print Date: 05/11/1900
      Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
      *Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
      Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例寿曽我); Toyotomi Tenshûni (豊臣天秀尼);
Genpei Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (桜鍔恨鮫鞘);
Harugeshiki Kumoi no Kyokumari (春景色雲井曲毬)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/10
Print Date: 01/14/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助)  as Senoo Jûrô (瀬尾十郎) and Ichikawa
Kuzô IV (市川九蔵) as Aoi Gozen (葵御前) in Genpei Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧).  The other figure
is as yet unidentified.
 

                 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Hachiman Saburô (八幡三郎)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Ômi Kotôta (近江小藤太)
 
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経)
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例寿曽我); Sadatô Munetô (貞任宗任); Yagura Daiko Shusse no
Torikumi (櫓太鼓出世取組); Kamiko Jitate Ryōmen Kagami (紙子仕立両面鑑)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/13//11
Print Date: 01/13/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Yorozuya Sukeroku (萬屋助六)
and  Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Agemaki (揚巻) in Kamiko Jitate Ryōmen
Kagami (紙子仕立両面鑑).
 

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例寿曽我); Shinagawa no Daiba (品川の台場); Fudô (不動);
Ittô Ryû Narita no Kakegaku (一刀流成田掛額); Shôchikubai Yuki Akebono (松竹梅雪曙)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/12
Print Date: 01/1912
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Fudô Myôô (不動明王) and
Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Miyoshino (侍三吉) in Fudô (不動); and Ichikawa
Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) in an unknown role.
 

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例壽曾我); Nakoso no Seki (なこその關); Ichi no Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記); Shinjû Naniwa Harusame (心中浪華春雨); Fuwa Kazuemon (不破數右衛門)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/15
Print Date: 01/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Abe Saburo Munenori (阿部三郎宗任) and
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Yawata Taro Yôshiie (八幡太郎義家) in Nakoso no Seki (なこその關).
 
 

                 
Kudô Saemon Suketsune (工藤左衛門祐経)

Play: Soga no Ishidan (曽我の石段;  曾我の石段)
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. ?
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Kensaki Make-up (劒先の隈)


Role: Morono (師直); Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)
Play: Kanadehon Chushingura (假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵) Prologue; Soga Taimen (曾我対面) and
Soga no Ishidan (曽我の石段; 曾我の石段)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 40
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
A Modern Kensaki (現今の劒先の隈)

Role: Morono (師直); Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)
Play: Kanadehon Chushingura (假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵) Prologue; Soga Taimen (曾我対面) and
Soga no Ishidan (曽我の石段; 曾我の石段)
Print Date: 11/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 11, No. 43
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
[Sword Point Makeup] Kensaki-guma (剣先隈)
[for Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)]

Play: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例壽曾我)
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Jûhachiban (隈取十八番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This was a version of the makeup as modified by
Matsumoto Kôshirô V (松本幸四郎 ).\
 
   

                 
Ichikawa Danshirô IV (市川段四郎) as
Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経)

Play: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例寿曽我)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/99
Print Date: 02/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Culminant Series XIII (Design 10)]
Daijûsan-ki Shûsei Shirîzu no 10
(第十三期集成シリーズの10)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経)
 
Play: Kichierei Kotobuki Soga
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
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) #5
Personal Collection
  
Note: I can find no record of Sadanji
II performing this role in Tokyo in
the 1920s.  His most immediate
prior performance in this role in
Tokyo was at the Meiji-za in
January 1918,  It is possible that this
piece reflects a performance outside
of Tokyo.  The envelope for Set #5
is shown in the Chikamine entry for
January 1928.