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
 

                 
 
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
 

                 
 
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
 

                 
 
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
 
 

                 
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.