SAWAMURA SÔJÛRÔ VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
1875 - 03/02/1949
aka SAWAMURA TOSSHÔ III
(沢村 訥升; 澤村訥舛)
MARCH 1911
Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Plays at
the Initial Opening of the Imperial Theater:
Yoritomo (頼朝, Igagoe (伊賀越), and Hagoromo (羽衣).
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/04/11
Print Date: 03/04/11
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed playbill
Image courtesy of the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints
Note: The center panel is by Kiyotada IV. The artist for the
other
two panels are unread but are presumably also by
Kiyotada. In
this production, Tennyo (天女) was played by Onoe Baikô VI, and
Hakuryô (伯竜) was played by Sawamura Sôjûrô VII.
JUNE 1911
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村惣十郎; 澤村惣十郎) as
Kakan Namazu (下官なまず; 下官鯰)
Play: Mikamiyama (三上山)
Performance Place: TTeikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/11
Print Date: 06/1911?
Artist: Yamamoto Kanae (山本鼎)
Series: Sôga Butai Sugata (草画舞台姿), Vol. 1
[Les Feuilles Théâtrales]
Personal Collection
Note: This print was self-carved by Yamamoto Kanae for members
of the Tokyo Hanga Kurabu Hakko (東京版画倶楽部發行).
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村惣十郎; 澤村惣十郎) as
Hanzawa Heikurô (榛沢平九郎)
Play: Shinbugun (振武軍)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/11
Print Date: 06/1911?
Artist: Sakamoto Hanjirô (坂本繁二郎)
Series: Sôga Butai Sugata (草画舞台姿), Vol. 1
[Les Feuilles Théâtrales]
Personal Collection
Note: This print was carved by Yamamoto Kanae for members
of the Tòkyò Hanga Kurabu Hakkò (東京版画倶楽部發行).
DECEMBER 1911
Print Date: 12/28/11, Appendix to Engei Gahô Vol. 6
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection
Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠))
APRIL 1912
Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe
sugoroku)
Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection
Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Ichijô Ôkura (一条大蔵; 一條大蔵)
Play: Ichijô Ôkurakyô (一条大蔵卿; 一條大蔵卿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
MARCH 1913
Play: Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1913
Print Date: 03/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: Also on the bill were Modobashi (戻橋), Ishida Mitsunari
(石田三成), and Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵).
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) was one of four
actors who alternated in roles of Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)
and as Shirabyôshi Sakurako (白拍子櫻子) in Ninin Dôjôji.
NOVEMBER 1914
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Okaru (お軽)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1914
Print Date: 11/1914
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Image courtesy of Fujiarts.com
APRIL 1915
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Mukôkizu Yosaburô ((向疵与三郎)
[Kirare Yosa (切られ与三)]
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1915
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection
Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Mukôkizu
Yosaburô ((向疵与三郎)
[Kirare
Yosa (切られ与三)]
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1915
Print
Date: 03/02/15
Artist:
Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #5]
Personal
Collection
JUNE 1915
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)
Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
JULY 1915
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢)
Play: Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
OCTOBER 1915
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Toriyama Inuchiyo (鳥山犬千代)
Play: Shiranui Monogatari (白縫譚)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10//01/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Toriyama Inuchiyo (鳥山犬千代)
Play: Shiranui Monogatari (白縫譚)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10//01/15
Print Date: 1915?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: Although the print is neither dated nor
identifies the actor, the resemblance to Seifu's
Yakusha-e print from 1915 is unmistakeable.
The actor, however, looks younger, and so it
could depict another actor in some unknown
later production.
JANUARY 1917
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Kasugaya Tokijirô (春日屋時次郎)
Plays: Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局); Kanjinchô (勧進帳);
Akegarasu Haru no Awa Yuki (明烏春淡雪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/17
Print Date: 01/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) was Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) '
was Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳).
The central female actor depicted is Onôe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) either as Urasato (浦里) in the former play or as
Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局) in the play of the same name.
APRIL 1918
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)
Play: Benten Musume Meo no
Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪;
辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #4
Personal Collection
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)
Play: Benten Musume Meo Shiranami
(辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #A]
Personal Collection
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)
Play: Benten Musume Meo no
Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪;
辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
JUNE
1918
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Kedani Omomizu (毛谷主水)
Play: Kuriyama Daizen (栗山大膳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/18
Print Date: 06/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection
NOVEMBER
1918
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Torazô (虎蔵; 寅蔵)
Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
MAY 1919
Sawamura Sojuro VII (:沢村宗十郎) as
Hatsugiku (初菊)
Play: Ehon Taikôki
(繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/19
Print Date: 05/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection
AUGUST 1920
Sawamura Sojuro VII (:沢村宗十郎) as
Soga Jûrô (曽我十郎)
Play: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono
(夜討曽我狩場曙; 夜討曾我狩場曙)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/20
Print Date: 08/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
1921
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Kaja-kai Ushiwaka (冠者会牛若)
Play: ?
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection
JANUARY
1922
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Takechi Jûjirô Mitsuyoshi (武智十次郎 光義)
Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/22
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩) (#5)
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.
This is a curious work. Although the
cartouche identifies
the actor as Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助), I can find no evidence that
Sônosuke I,
who was primarily a onnagata, ever played the
role of
Takechi Jûjirô Mitsuyoshi. Sôjûrô VII,
however, did,
starting with a production at the Teikoku Gekijô
in
September 1912. In both the September 1912
and
January 1922 productions, Sônosuke I
played
opposite Sôjûrô VII as Takechi Jûjirô
Mitsuyoshi's
betrothed, Jûjirô Hatsukiku (十次郎妻初菊). Gakô
was likely working from a photograph which he
misread and inadvertently reversed the two
actors
in the two roles. That Gakô thought the
actor was
Sônosuke I is unmistakable given how the
cartouche
is written and by the fact that he noted that
Sônosuke
I died on April 7, 1924 at age 39.
JANUARY
1926
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Hachirobê (八郎兵衛)
Play: Unagidani (鰻谷)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô
Performance Date: 01/1926
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
MARCH
1927
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Masaoka (政岡)
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
2-shû (舞台絵巻 第2集)
Image courtesy of Gary
Christenson
APRIL
1927
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
as Musashibô Benkei
(武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎 as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
3rd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
3-shû (舞台絵巻 第3集)
Personal Collection
JANUARY
1928
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成)
Play: Kichirei Soga no Taimen
(吉例曽我対面)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/28
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) #7
Personal Collection
JUNE 1928
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Mashiba Hisayoshi (羽柴久吉)
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐; 樓門五山桐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1928
Print Date: 06/1928?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum
Note: There is a record here of Sôjûrô VII
performing in
this play with Kôshirô VII in January 1923 but not
the venue:
https://zeami.ci.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/~izuka/erito1/tujikabuki1.html
The pair also played the same roles in a
production of
Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜渕双級巴) at the
Teikoku Gekijô in October 1928. Given that
1928 appears
to be rather late for Hanayama print, it is
possible that the
print reflects a prior performance outside of
Tokyo.
JANUARY 1929
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/29
Print Date: 01/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: The seller atrributed the authorship to
Kiyotada IV. Also on the bill were Gion
Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記), Iro Moyô
Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆), and Kami
no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組).
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
portrayed Yukihime in Gion Sairei Shinkôki.
FEBRUARY
1930
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Osome (お染)
Play: Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/30
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩) (#31)
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. Sôjûrô VII died on March
2, 1949 at
age 75. Sôjûrô VII also portrayed
Osome in a product of Osome
no Michiyuki (お染の道行) in February 1923 at the
Ichimura-za. It i
s possible that this work reflects that earlier
performance.
OCTOBER 1948
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Ranchô (らんてふ; 蘭蝶)
Nakamura Shikaku II (中村芝鶴) as
Konoito (此糸) [of the Wakagiya]
Play: Wakagi no Adanagusa (若木仇名草)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1948
Print Date: 10/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com