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)

                   
[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.
 
 

                 
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

                 
[Makeup of Fujiwara no Shihei (藤原時平]

Play:  Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1of 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
 

                   
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
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) 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: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1950
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: [Kabuki Calendar] Kabuki Karendâ (歌舞伎カレンダー) [February]
Medium: Colored woodblock print, possibly with hand-applied color on verso
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 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 (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                    
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.
 
   

                 
[[Yoshida] Eizô and Matsuomaru] [Yoshida]
Eizô to Matsuômaru  ([吉田]栄三と松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date:  1953
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Personal Collection (#26/30)
 
 
 
 

Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)

Toneri Matsuòmaru (舎人松王丸)
 
Play:  Terakoya ( 寺子屋), Act IV, Scene 3 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Date: 1955
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prints of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 3
 
 
 
 

                   
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).
 
 
 
  

                   
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Terakoya no Dan (寺子屋の段),
Act IV, Scene 3 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hanabusa Hideki (花房英樹)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #6
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Kikugoro VI (尾上菊五郎) as Matsuomaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二 ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
  
 
 

                   
[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.
 
 

                   
[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)
 
 

                   
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).
 
 
 
 

Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Ueki Sumio (植木須美子)
Medium: Woodblock printed ex libris
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1980
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 1980
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)

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)
 
 
 

                 
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)
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Matsuômaru Nyôbô Chiyo (松王女房千代)

Play: Terakoya (寺子屋), Act IV, Scene 3 of 
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/86
Print Date: 03/1986
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, Six Busts of Female Role Specialists]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Onnagata Ôkubi Roku Sugata
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・女形大首六姿)
Personal Collection (#11/54)
 
 

                 
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)
Personal Collection (#18/72)
 
 
 
 

                   
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

                 
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. 
 
 
 
 

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

Play: Terakoya (寺子屋), Act IV, Scene 3 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/97
Print Date: 05/1997
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits XI (Design 7)]
Daijûichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 7
(第十一期大首絵シリーズの7)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences II (01/2000).
 
 
 
 

                 
Reminiscences II (思い出 II)

Print Date:  01/2000
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
Personal Collection (#14/72)

Note: 35 copies from the edition of 72 were never printed.  Given
the difficulty in photographing this print in view of its large size, I
have used the image on the Kôkei website in lieu of one of my
own numbered copy.  This print contains larger versions of the
following actors' faces (left to right starting at the top row):

1. Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
2. Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as Hannyo (斑女) in
Sumidagawa (隅田川), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1981).
3. Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (11/1980).
4. Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo (10/04/1986).
5. Nakamura Kanzaburô XVlI (中村勘三郎) as Danjô Imôto Yashio (弾正妹八汐) in
Sendai Hagi (先代萩), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/01/1983)
6. Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as Fujioka Tôjûrô (藤岡藤十郎) in
Shisenryô (四千両), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1983).
7. Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Yûjo Okaru (遊女おかる) in
Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1988).
8. Jitsukawa Enjaku III (實川延若) as Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作) in
Nozakimura (野崎村), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1989).
9. Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as Benten Kozô (弁天小僧) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1995).
10. Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in
Terakoya (寺子屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1997).
11. Sawamura Tanosuke VI (澤村田之助) as Mitsuhide Tsuma Satsuki (光秀妻皐月) in
Kikyô no Hataage (桔梗旗揚), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1997).
12. Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1996).
 
 
 
 

                 
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
 
 
 
 

                 
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)
 
 
 
 

                 
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
 
 
 
 
 

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

Play: Ga no Iwai (賀の祝), Act III, Scene 2 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/2000
Print Date: 12/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Note: This print is found inside specially bound copies of Tsuruya
Kôkei: The Complete Woodblock Prints 1978-2000 (2000).  

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

Play: Ga no Iwai (賀の祝), Act III, Scene 2 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/2000
Print Date: 12/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#103/200)

Note: This is either a color variant or a copy where the white face
pigment has chemically reacted wit the pink backing paper.