SUGAWARA DENJU TENARAI KAGAMI
(菅原傳授手習鑑)

aka OSANAMOJI KABUKI NO KAKIZOME (幼字劇書初)
aka ZÔHO TENJINKI (増補天神記)

Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎)  as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)


     
     
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/1900
Print Date: 10/1900?
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This posthumously-issued print
is a revised version of a design
originally issued in connection with a
November 1898 production at the
Meiji-za with a different cast.
 

  Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
  Umeômaru (梅王丸)

  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
  Fujiwara no Shiheikô (時平公)
 

   Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
   Matsuômaru (松王丸)

   
    Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎) as
    Sakuramaru (桜丸)





    Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
    Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
    Performance Date: 10/12/1900
    Print Date: 10/1900
    Artist: Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川芳幾)
    Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan
    ARC Collection
 
    Note: The Tsubouchi Memorial
    Theatre Museum attributes this
    print to Toyohara Kunichika
    (豊原国周).
 
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Shiheikô (時平公)

Ichikawa Somegorô IV
(市川染五郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
'

Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

                
Plays: Shinchôki Atago Renga (信長記愛宕連歌); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Sayo Shigure Ten no Amijima (小夜時雨天網島); Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/00
Print Date: 10/13/00
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  The left character is Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in Sayo Shigure
Ten no Amijima (小夜時雨天網島).  While the right character is not entirely clear, I believe it is Onoe
Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長) in Shinchôki Atago Renga (信長記愛宕連歌).
 
 

Unread as Shihei-kô (時平公)

Unread as Sugiômaru (杉王丸)

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Ichikawa Danjuro IX
(市川団次郎; 市川團次郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3,
Scene 1 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/10/02
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  Certain of the principles
performed together at the
Shintomi-za in Tokyo in January
1881, but this print appears to
be a mitate-e.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as
Nyôbô Tonami (女房戸浪)

Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place/: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

  Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
  Matsuômaru (松王丸)

                    
   Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵) as
   Shundô Genba (春堂玄蕃)
 

                
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Kan Shôjô (菅丞相; 管丞相)
 
Plays:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壷坂霊験記);
Mikazuki (三日月); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/23/03
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The other figure on the cover is as yet unidentified.
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)


  


Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3,
Scene 1 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1905
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)

Note: I have not found a
contemporaneous stage performance
with this particular cast.  Some of
the actors, however, did appear in a
production at the Kabuki-za in
November 1903.  See also Kunisada
III's paper model prints of April
1902.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵)
as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Ichikawa Kodanji V
(市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Fujiwara no Shihei (藤原時平)

  Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
  Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Unread as Nyòbò Chiyo (女房千代)

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Toneri Matsuòmaru (舎人松王丸)

Unread as Shundò Genba (春藤玄蕃)

Unread as
Nyòbò Tonami (源蔵女房戸浪)

Unread as Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)
 
Play:Terakoya (寺子屋), Act IV,
Scene 3 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: 1909?
Print Date: 1909/06/04
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  Although Yaozô VII played the
role of Matsuòmaru on a number of
occasions,  I have not found a
contemporanous performance of
this play with this cast around the
time that the print was made. 
 
 
 

Unread as Hyakushô (百姓)

Unread as Terako (寺子)

Unread as Hyakushô (百姓)

Unread as Genan Sansuke (下男三助)

Unread as Yodarekuri [Yotarô]
(よだれくり [与太郎])

Unread as Terako (寺子)

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Takatoki (高時);
Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); Natsu Sugata Onna Danshichi (夏祭女団七);
Wakamidori Sorazumiyoshi (若緑空住吉)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/12/10
Print Date: 06/13/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Hôjô Takatoki (北條高時) in
Takatoki (高時), Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Danshichi Shima no Okaji
(團七縞お梶) in Natsu Sugata Onna Danshichi (夏祭女団七), and Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) in an as yet unidentified role.
 

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 Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
            Chiyo-hime (千代姫)

            Play: Terakoya (寺子屋), Act 4, Scene 3 of
            Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/01/12
            Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

            Note: This entry has not been verified.

                 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助)  as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Umeômaru (梅王丸)
 
Plays: Kankô (菅公);  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Wankyu Sue no Matsuyama
(椀久末松山); Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘戀緋鹿子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/13
Print Date: 02/1913?
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 Nakamura Shibajaku IV (中村芝雀) as Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七) and
Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as Osugi (お杉) in Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘戀緋鹿子);
and  Hayashi Chôzaburô I (林 長三郎 ) as Fujiwara (藤原), Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
Okina (翁),  Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Michizane (道真), and Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀)
as Akomaru (阿古丸) in Kankô (菅公).
 
 

                   
Onoe Taminosuke I (尾上多見之助) as
Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Toneri Matsuòmaru (舎人松王丸)
 
Plays: Maiôgi Meiga Aya (舞扇名画彩); 
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑);
Neko to Nezumi (猫と鼠)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/15
Print Date: 03/03/15
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô
VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kano Marinobu
(狩野鞠信),  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Bandô
Osuga (坂東お須賀), and Sawamura Sônosuke
I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Miyawaki Kazuma
(宮脇數馬) in Maiôgi Meiga Aya (舞扇名画彩).
 
 

Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Shundô Genba (春藤玄蕃)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Koito Gentarô (小絲源太郎)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection

           
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
            Matsuômaru (松王丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 10/31/1915
            Print Date: 1915?
            Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
            Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
            Personal Collection
 
            Note: It is also possible that this print depicts
            Kichiemon I in a production at the Ichimura-za in
            January 1912.
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団治; 市川左團治)
as Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑);
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 08/15/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Plays: Igami no Gonta (いがみの權太); Suôotoshi (素襖落); Zôho Tenjinki (増補天神記);
Tôkaidô Hizakurige (東海道膝栗毛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/16
Print Date: 08/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yazaemon (弥左衛門) and Onoe
Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太) in Igami no Gonta (いがみの權太).
 
 

                 
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Shiratayû (白太夫)   
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東 彦三郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Sawamura Chôjûrô,VII (沢村長十郎; 澤村長十郎) as Umeômaru (梅王丸)
 
Plays: On'na Tateshi Gomai no Soroigi  (女達師五枚揃着); On'na Shibaraku (女暫);
Karukayadô (苅萱堂); Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑);
Musume Gonomi Ukina no Yokogushi (處女翫浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Jakushôbô  (寂照坊) in Karukayadô
(苅萱堂).
 
 

Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Note: This design was posthumously reissued
in 1922 in a slightly different color scheme
depicting the actor Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) in the role.

            
            Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as
            Sakuramaru (桜丸)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            
            Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛)
            as Umeômaru (梅王丸)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was posthumously
            reissued in 1922 in a slightly different
            color scheme depicting the actor Bandò
            Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) in the role.

            
            Ichikawa Sanshô V
            (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
            Umeômaru (梅王丸)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            
            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
            Toneri Matsuômaru (舎人松王丸)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was post-humously
            reissued in 1922 in a slightly different
            color scheme depicting the actor
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
            as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in the role.
 
 

            
            Ichikawa Chûsha VII
            (市川中車) as
            Toneri Matsuômaru
            (舎人松王丸)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was post-
            humously reissued in 1922
            in a slightly different color
            scheme depicting the actor
            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as
            Matsuômaru (松王丸) in the
            role.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Michizane (道実)
 
Play: Sugawara Denjû Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)                
Medium: woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection

                `
                Nakamura Ganjirô I
                (中村鴈治郎) as
                Michizane (道実)
 
                Play: Sugawara Denju
                Tenarai Kagami
                (菅原伝授手習鑑;
                菅原傳授手習鑑)
                Performance Place: Shintomi-
                za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 03/11/19
                Print Date: 03/1919?
                Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
                (歌川国貞)
                Medium: woodblock printed
                senshafuda
                Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

            
            Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
            Kakuju (覚寿)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorò VI
(尾上菊五郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
                    
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 

           
            Onoe Kikugorò VI
            (尾上菊五郎) as
            Matsuômaru (松王丸)
                    
            Play: Sugawara Denju
            Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/06/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 

       
        Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
        Shikibu Genzô (式部源蔵)

        Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
        (菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
        Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 09/06/19
        Print Date: 09/1919?
        Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
        Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
        (千代 栄劇彩)
        Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as Shikibu
            Genzô (式部源蔵)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/06/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection