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
 
 
 
 

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
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum 
 
 
 
 

                 
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)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

                   
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

Note: 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.