Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑) aka Osanamoji Kabuki no Kakizome (幼字劇書初) aka Zoho Tenjinki (増補天神記)

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)

See also Act III, Scene 2: Ga no Iwai (賀の祝) (The Celebration) for additional prints featuring the triplets.

OCTOBER 1900

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)

APRIL 1902

Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as
Shihei-kô (時平公)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Sugiômaru (杉王丸)

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

Ichikawa Komazô VII.8 (市川高麗蔵)
as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) 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 Shôchiku
Ôtani Library

Note: I have not found a contempor-
aneous stage performance with this
particular cast. Many of actors,
however, did appear in a production
at the Kabuki-za in November 1903.

Unread as Shihei-kô (時平公)

Unread as Sugiômaru (杉王丸)

Unread as Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Unread as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Unread 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: Although this set bears the
same publication date as the prior
print, it features a different cast.

1905

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)

NOVEMBER 1915

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.

MARCH 1919

Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Play: Sugawara Denjù 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 Denjù 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 Denjù 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 Denjù 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 Denjù 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 Denjù 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.

FEBRUARY 1921

Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Nichiren Shônin Kôtan Nanahyakunen
Kôso Nichiren (日蓮聖人降誕七百年高祖日蓮); Kirare Otomi (切られお富)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/16/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

MAY 1921

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画春仙似顔集) (#12)
Personal Collection

MARCH 1922

Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1922
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画春仙似顔集) (#29)
Personal Collection

Note: Hikosaburô VI first played this role in Tokyo at the
Teikoku Gekijô in February 1918. He also played the role
at the Shinbashi Enbujô in February 1919 and February
1920, and at the Asakusa Shochiku-za in February 1921.
It is possible that Shunsen modeled this print on one of
these other prior performances.

JUNE 1922

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/06/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
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 (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was originally
issued in a slightly different color scheme
circa March 1919 depicting the actor
Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) in this role at
the Shintomi-za.

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/06/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This design (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was originally
issued in a slightly different color scheme
circa March 1919 depicting the actor
Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛)
in this role at the Shintomi-za.

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

Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/06/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print (lacking Kunisada's normal
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920 is similar to a
senshafuda designed by Kunisada circa
March 1919 depicting the actor Ichikawa
Chùsha VII (市川中車) as Toneri Matsuômaru
(舎人松王丸) at the Shintomi-za.

APRIL 1925

Operas: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

c. 1925-1926

Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
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

Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami ( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
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

Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami ( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
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

Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami ( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
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

FEBRUARY 1927

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/05/27
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 9 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

Toneri Sakuramaru (舎人桜丸)
'

Toneri Uumeômaru (舎人梅王丸)
'

Toneri Matsuômaru (舎人松王丸)
'

Placement of characters on stage design
'

Stage Design
'

NOVEMBER 1928

The Make-Up Congratulating The Imperial Coronation
O-Taiten Hôshuku Kuma (御大典奉祝隈)

Role: Kanabôhiki (金棒曳)
Play: Kuruma-biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 1
Personal Collection

JANUARY 1929

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

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.

Antique Make-Up for Matsuo (古代松王隈取)

Role: Matsuomaru (松王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 01/25/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 18
Personal Collection

AUGUST 1929

Sakura-Maru (現今の櫻丸の隈)

Role: Sakuramaru (櫻丸)
Play: Kuruma-biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 08/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 8, No. 22
Personal Collection

Matsuo aka Nihon-Kuma (Two Lined Make-up)
(車引松王の隈)

Role: Matsuomaru (松王丸)
Play: Kuruma-biki (車引) and Ga no Iwai (賀の祝),
Act III of Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 08/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 8, No. 29
Personal Collection

Shiheiko (時平の隈)

Role: Prince Shiheiko (時平子)
Play: Kuruma-biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 08/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 8, No. 69
Personal Collection

OCTOBER 1929

Kayen-Tsuki-Nihonkuma (Two-Lined Make-up with Flame)
(火炎附ニ本隈)

Role: Matsuomaru (松王丸)
Play: Kuruma-biki (車引) and Ga no Iwai (賀の祝),
Act III of Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 10/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 10, No. 22
Personal Collection

Note: There was a print in Vol. 8 designated as No. 22. As
there is no print in the complete set designated as No. 32,
I can only assume that this is a misprint for No. 32.

NOVEMBER 1929

Kanshôjo on Mt. Tempaisan (天拝山菅相亟の隈)

Role: Puppet impersonating Kwan the Minister Sugawara no
Michizane (菅原道真菅原道眞)
Play: Tenjinki (天神記)
Print Date: 11/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 11, No. 33
Personal Collection

Note: There was a print in Vol. 5 designated as No. 33. As
there is no print in the complete set designated as No. 23,
I can only assume that this is a misprint for No. 23.

DECEMBER 1929

Kanabô-hiki (a Forerunner with a Rattle-Staff) (金棒引の隈)

Role: Kanabôhiki (金棒引)
Play: Kuruma-biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 12/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 12, No. 54
Personal Collection

c. 1932-33

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami ((菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Gidayû Bushi (義太夫節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

1936

Cover for Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑) [Shihei-kô (時平公)]

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Medium: Machine printed
Personal Collection

Sakuramaru (桜丸), Matsuômaru (松王丸), and
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Personal Collection

Note: The official title for this print is "Dôgyô Taijû
no Jûjirô (童形太十の重次郎)."

1940

[Umeômaru (梅王丸)] Suji-guma (筋隈)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1940
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Jûhachiban (隈取十八番)
Personal Collection

Note: This was makeup devised by Icbikawa Danjûrô I
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) with shadings modified by
Danjûrô II.

1941

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

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: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: These actors performed their respective roles in a
production at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in January 1934.
That production likely toured Osaka around that time.

[Two-Line Makeup of Matsuô] Matsuô Nihon-guma
(松王二本隈)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Jûhachiban (隈取十八番)
Personal Collection

NOVEMBER 1948

[Makeup of Fujiwara no Shihei (藤原時平]

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of Sugawara Denju
Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 11/1948
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Juhachiban (隈取十八番)
Image courtesy of the Asian Collection Internet Auction

APRIL 1949

Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Toneri Umeômaru (舎人梅王丸)

Play: Kuruma-biki (車曳), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Tokyo Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1949
Print Date: 03/1952
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Scholten Gallery

DECEMBER 1950

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko, Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen,
Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, Shimizu Miezô, and Mori Shunchô. A panel by
Tadamasa follow.

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑),
Panel 10 of Kobikichō Kabuki-za
Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

NOVEMBER 1952

Matsumoto Kôshirô VIII (松本幸四郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/23/52
Print Date: 09/1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#6)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kôshirô VIII first played the role of Matsuômaru in
this play in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in March 1951, so it is
possible that Gakô based this print on one of Kôshirô
VIII's prior Tokyo performances.

JUNE 1958

Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/58
Print Date: 12/1958
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: A similar but more detailed version of this
design is shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen
catalogs (and appears to be a painting, not hanga-genga).

UNKNOWN MONTH 1968

[Dragging A Coach] Kurumabiki (車引き)
Sakuramaru (桜丸), Umeômaru (梅王丸),
Matsuômaru (松王丸), and Fujiwara no
Shihei (藤原時平)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1968
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available.
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.

1972

[Three Brothers Dragging Vehicles]
(Kurumabiki Sankyôdai (車引き三兄弟)
Sakuramaru (桜丸), Umeômaru (梅王丸), and
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1972
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

1976

Sugawara (菅原)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1976
Artist: Al Hirschfeld
Series: Kabuki
Medium: Lithograph
Image Courtesy of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation

Note: Although this is likely an idealized portrait, there was a production
of this play in August 1975 in Tokyo at the Kokuritsu Gekijô which
Hirschfeld may have seen with Ichikawa Danshirô IV (市川段四郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸), Ichikawa Omezô V (市川男女蔵) as Matsuômaru
(松王丸), and Ichimura Kakitsu XVII (市村家橘) as Sakuramaru (桜丸).

1981

Fujiwara no Shihei (藤原時平]

Title: [Bunraku Head Shihei]
Bunraku Kashira Shihei (文楽頭時平)
Play: Sugawara Denju
Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za
Print Date: 1981
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)

JANUARY 1985

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

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/85
Print Date: 01/1985
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 8)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 8
(第三期大首絵シリーズの8)
Personal Collection (#3/45)

FEBRUARY 1988

Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami ((菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1988　　
Print Date: 03/1988
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Scenes from the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Rokkei
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六景)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

NOVEMBER 1992

Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Date: 11/92
Artist: Hiratsuka Akio (平塚昭夫)
Medium: Ex Libris stencil print
Courtesy of the National Museum of
Taiwan Literature

DECEMBER 1996

Kurumabiki (車引)

Play: Act 3, Scene 1 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 12/1996
Artist: Paul Binnie
Medium: Relief print with coloring
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#6/20)

Note: There were two productions of the Kurumabiki scene in
Tokyo prior to the creation of this print during Paul Binnie's time
in Japan. One was at the Kabuki-za in March 1995. The other
was a special performance at the Kokuritsu Gekijô on August 3,
1996. However, it is also possible that Binnie saw this scene in
a theater outside of Tokyo or in a broadcast recording.

JANUARY 1999

1999 Holiday Card depicting
Umeômaru (梅王丸)?

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
((菅原傳授手習鑑)?
Print Date: c. 01/01/99
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

JUNE 1999

Bandô Hikosaburô VIII (坂東彦三郎) as
Fujiwara no Shihei (藤原時平)

Onoe Tatsunosuke II (尾上辰之助) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/99
Print Date: 06/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Culminant Series XIII (Design 4)]
Daijûsan-ki Shûsei Shirîzu no 2
(第十三期集成シリーズの4)
*Personal Collection (#43/63)

MARCH 2000

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

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/2000
Print Date: 11/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as
Matsuômaru (松下丸)

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/2000
Print Date: 11/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎)) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/2000
Print Date: 11/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

UNDATED PRINTS

Shiheikô (時平公)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Kugeaku Tokihei (公家悪時平)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Toneri Sakuramaru (舎人桜丸)

Toneri Matsuômaru (舎人松王丸)

Toneri Uumeômaru (舎人梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

Kugeaku Tokihei (公家悪時平)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kumadori Soroi
(隈取揃)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
        (松本幸四郎) as
        Umeômaru (梅王丸)

        Play: Sugawara Denju
        Tenarai Kagami
        (菅原伝授手習鑑)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: This print may not be by
        Sadanobu III. Kôshirô VII
        played this role in Tokyo at the
        Kabuki-za in May 1921, at the
        Teikoku Gekijô in January
        1929, and at the Kabuki-za in
        January 1934 and January
        1937. However, it likely
        reflects a performance in
        Osaka or Kyoto. A related
        senshafuda by an unknown
        artist is shown below.

        Onoe Kikugorô VI? (尾上菊五郎) as
        Sakuramaru (桜丸)

        Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
        (菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: It is possible that this print is by
        Sadanobu IV and/or depicts Onoe
        Kikugorô VII.

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

        Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
        (菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: It is possible that this print is by
        Sadanobu IV and/or depicts Ichikawa
        Sadanji III.

Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Date: ?
Artist: Hiratsuka Akio (平塚昭夫)
Medium: Ex Libris stencil print

.

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Masugawa Chikamine (ます川周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed magazine print
Personal Collection

Note: Chûsha VII performed this role in Tokyo at least six
times between 1919 and 1927.

                ? as Usugumodayû (薄雲太夫) in
                Kumo no Ito Azusa no Yumihari (蜘蛛絲梓弦) or a similar play

                Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Wan'ya Kyûbê (椀屋久兵衛) in
                Wankyû Sue no Matsuyama (椀久末松山)

                Tanpay (単平) as Sakuramaru (桜丸) in Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
                (菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)

                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
                Image courtesy of Dr. Osamu Nagai

                Note: Ganjirô I starred in the premiere of Wan'ya Kyûbê at the Naka-za in Osaka in
                March 1906. He would later perform the role in Toyko at times when Nagai Seijirô
                would have been active at the Shintomi-za in February 1913 and again in November
                1920, though this print likely depicts some regional theatre performance.

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

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Artist: Masugawa Chikamine (ます川周峯)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI, Mitsugorô VII, and Kichiemon I
appear to have performed their respective roles in the
same Tokyo production on only one occasion, namely, at
the Ichimura-za in November 1915. Whether all three
performed together at some later date outside of Tokyo is
not known to me at this time. The only other time
Kikugorô VI played the role of Sakuramaru in Tokyo was
at the Kabuki-za in January 1934.

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI, Mitsugorô VII, and Kichiemon I
appear to have performed their respective roles in the
same Tokyo production on only one occasion, namely, at
the Ichimura-za in November 1915. Whether all three
performed together at some later date outside of Tokyo is
not known to me at this time. However, Mitsugorô VII
did play the role of Umeômaru at the Shintomi-za (with
Kichiemon I) in June 1922 and at the Asakusa
Shochiku-za in October 1924

.

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: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI, Mitsugorô VII, and Kichiemon I
appear to have performed their respective roles in the
same Tokyo production on only one occasion, namely, at
the Ichimura-za in November 1915. Whether all three
performed together at some later date outside of Tokyo is
not known to me at this time. However, Kichiemon I did
play the role of Matsuômaru at the Shintomi-za (with
Mitsugorô VII) in June 1922, and at the Meiji-za in
April 1928 and April 1931.

Kumadori (隈取) for Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Kumadori (隈取) for Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Kumadori (隈取) for Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Kuruma-biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.

[Sakuramaru (桜丸), Matsuômaru (松王丸), and Umeômaru (梅王丸)]
Kurumabiki (車引)

Play: Kurumabiki (車引) , Act III, Scene 1 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 20)
Image courtesy of Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: In the 1920s when Shiko was actively designing prints,
Mitsugorô VII performed this role in Tokyo at Shintomi-za in
June 1922 and at the Asakusa Shochiku-za in October 1924.
However, it is possible that this pint reflects a regional
performance.

Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Personal Collection

        [February]

        Play: Kuruma Biki (車引),
        Act III, Scene 1 of
        Sugawara Denju Tenarai
        Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Torii Kiyotada
        (鳥居清忠)
        Series: Shibai Mitate
        Jūni-Kagetsu
        (芝居見立十二ヶ月)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

            ?

            Play: ?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
            Personal Collection

            Note: It is possible that this
            represents Umeômaru
            (梅王丸) in Sugawara Denju
            Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原傅授手習鑑;
            菅原伝授手習鑑).

            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
            (松本幸四郎)
            as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover

            Note: Kôshirô VII performed this
            role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
            May 1921, at the Teikoku Gekijô
            in January 1929, and at the
            Kabuki-za in January 1934 and
            January 1937.

Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami ( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: Kumadori (隈取)
Personal Collection

            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
            Matsuômaru (松王丸)

            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 1921/05/01/21
            Print Date: 1921?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

    Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
    Umeômaru (梅王丸)

    Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
    Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
    Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
    Tokyo
    Performance Date: 05/01/21
    Print Date: 1921?
    Artist: ?
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    senshafuda
    Personal Collection

    Note: A related pochibukuro by
    Hasegawa Sadanobu III is shown
    above.