SUKEROKU YUKARI NO EDO ZAKURA
(助六所縁江戸櫻)

aka HANA YAKATA AIGO ZAKURA (花館愛護櫻)
aka SUKEROKU KURUWA NO MOMOYOGUSA (助六曲輪菊)
aka SUKEROKU KURUWA NO HATSU ZAKURA (助六所縁江戸櫻)
aka SUKEROKU JÔMON NO HANABUSA (助六定紋英)
aka IMAYÔ NININ SUKEROKU (今様二人助六)
aka SUKEROKU (助六)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Sukeroku (助e六)

Arashi Ganshô I (嵐巌笑) as
Aemaki (揚巻)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Ikyû (意休) 

Play: (Mitate) Sukeroku ([見立] 助六)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川芳幾)
Print Date: 02/21/1900
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Nanto Enjô (南都炎上); Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜); Kanjinchô (勧進帳);
Oyayuzuri Sakanaya no Chawan (親譲魚屋の茶碗)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/27/06
Print Date: 05/27/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Agemaki (揚巻)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎) as
Shirozaki Uri (sweet white sake seller)
Shinbei (白酒売新兵衛)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Shibajaku IV (中村芝雀) as
Shiratama (白玉)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date:06/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku Kuruwa no Momoyogusa
(助六曲輪菊)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo,
Performance Date: 03/31/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Torii (VIII) Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection
 
 

                   

Plays: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録);
Sukeroku Kuruwa no Momoyogusa (助六曲輪菊);
Hyakugumi Shusse Tobi (百組出世鳶);
Jômi no Sechie (上巳の節会)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/15
Print Date: 03/31/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki  cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Sakakibara Yasumasa (榊原康正)
and Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in Kiyomasa Seichûroku
(清正誠忠録).
 
 

           
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Sukeroku (助六)
 
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 03/02/15
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #5]
Image courtesy of David Bull

           
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Ikyû (意休)
 
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 03/02/15
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #5]
Personal Collection

 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as ?
Agemaki (揚巻)
 
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15           
Print Date: 03/02/15
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #5]   
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sukeroku (助六)
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Agemaki (揚巻)
Ichikawa Yaozô VII  (市川八百蔵) as Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/08/15
Print Date: 04/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Personal Collection

Note:  The same design was used for a later production at the
Kabuki-za in 1925 that also featured Ichimura Uzaemon XV.
 
 
 
 

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Shirozaki Uri (sweet white sake seller)
Shinbei (白酒売新兵衛)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: 1917?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: 03/30/17?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: 1920
Artost" Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Agemaki (揚巻)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sukeroku (助六)
 
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Ikyû (意休)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kanpera Monbei (かんぺら門兵衛)
 
Plays: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉); Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Sakura (助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/17
Print Date: 04/1917?
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 Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as Yodogimi (淀君) and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kimura Nagato-no-Kami (木村長門守) in Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉).
 
 

Envelope design for Tôsei Meiyû
Omokage Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙)
#2

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) #2
 
 
 

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV
        (市村羽左衛門) as
        Sukeroku (助六)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六所縁江戸櫻)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        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) #2
        Personal Collection
 
 
 

       
        Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
        Agemaki (揚巻)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六所縁江戸櫻)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        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) #2
        Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke V  (中村福助)
        as Shiratama (白玉)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六所縁江戸櫻)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        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)  #2
        Personal Collection

       
        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
        (松本幸四郎) as Ikyû (意休)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六所縁江戸櫻)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        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) #2
        Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/25
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
      

                             
            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
            Sukeroku (助六)

            Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
            (助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻) 
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/08/25
            Print Date:  02/1925?
            Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
            Medium: Lithograph
            Personal Collection

 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sukeroku (助六)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Agemaki (揚巻)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/08/25
Print Date: 02/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Personal Collection

Note: The same design was used for an earlier production at
the Kabuki-za in 1915 that also featured Ichimura Uzaemon XV.
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play:  Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/29
Print Date: [1929]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Uzaemon XV first performed the role of Sukeroku in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1906.  He reprised the role
at the Kabuki-za in April 1915 and February 1925.
 
 
 
  

                   
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Hige no Ikyû (髭の意休)

Play:  Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/29
Print Date: [1929/03]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kôshirô VII first performed the role of  Ikyû in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in February 1925. 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play:  Sukeroku Yukari No Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸櫻; 助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/53
Print Date: 03/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 
 
    

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku  (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/53
Print Date: 01/1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#1)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ebizô IX first played the role of Sukeroku in this play
in Tokyo at the Tokyo Gekijô in June 1946.  Although
Ebizô IX's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in March
1953, it is possible that Gakô based this print on one of
Ebizô IX's prior performances.  This design was reissued to
commemorate his shumei at the Kabuki-za in April and May 1962.
 

 
 

                   
Morita Kan'ya XIV (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Shinjuku Koma Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/60
Print Date: 06/1960?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection
  
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XI (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku  (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/62; 05/**/62
Print Date: 1962?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This lithograph is a reissue of the 1954 Ota woodblock print of the
same actor (under his prior name of Ichikawa Ebizô IX) in the same role
at the Kabuki-za in March 1953.  It appears designed to commemorate his
two month shûmei at the Kabuki-za in 1962.  He reprised the role at
the Kabuki-za in October 1964.
                 

               
Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura 
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1969
Print Date: 1969
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

 
 

               
Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura 
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1969
Print Date: 1969
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection
 
Note: Mounted box version.   The print was photographed under
conditions that make the skin tone and background appear to be
somewhat yellowed. 
 

 
 

               
Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1969
Print Date: 01/1976
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal Collection (#45/200)

Note: Ebizô X performed this role as part of his shumei.
 
 

                 
Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku (助六)
[Sukeroku Kuruwa no Hatsu Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/83
Print Date: 03/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 17)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 17
(第三期大首絵シリーズの17)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Note: A smaller, simplified version of the actor's face was also
used on a 1998 holiday card.
 
 
 
 

                 
1998 Holiday Card with portraits of
Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫)

Print Date: c. 01/01/98
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
Note: The holiday card uses reduced,
simplified images of Kataoka Takao
(left to right starting at the top row)
from the following prints:
 
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in
Sukeroku (助六), Kabuki-za, Tokyo
(03/02/83);
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門) in
Yoshidaya (吉田屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo
(03/02/96);
Tobizu Matsukichi (鳶頭松吉) in
Omatsuri (お祭り), Kabuki-za, Tokyo
01/02/94);
Tamiya lemon (民谷伊右衛門) in
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), Kabuki-za,
Tokyo (06/02/83);
Tsurigane Gonsuke (釣鐘権助) in
Sakurahime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章),
Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/81);
Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門) in
Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Act VII of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵;  
假名手本忠臣蔵),
Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/88).

                         
        Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎)  as
        Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)

        Play: Sukeroku (助六) [
        Sukeroku Kuruwa no Hatsu Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)]
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 03/02/83
        Print Date: 03/1983
        Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
        Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 18)]
        Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 18
        (第三期大首絵シリーズの18)
        Personal Collection (#3/36)

        Note: 5 copies from the edition of 36 were destroyed by the artist.

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku (助六)
[Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)\]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/85
Print Date: 06/1985
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, A Selection of Six Aragoto Characters -
the Name-Taking Ceremony of Ichikawa Danjûrô XII]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Onnagata Ôkubi Roku Sugata
Jûni-daime Ichikawa Danjûrô Shûmei Hirô Aragoto Roku-sen
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・
十二代目市川團十郎襲名披露　荒事六選)
Personal Collection (#11/54)
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Sukeroku (助六)
           
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Misono-za, Nagoya
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 09/1994
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Sukeroku (助六)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#8//80)

Note: This appears to have been Danjûrô XII's only known appearance in
this role during the time that Binnie lived in Japan prior to the creation of
this print.  Otherwise, Danjûrô XII's most recent performance as Sukeroku
in Tokyo appears to have been at the Kabuki-za in May 1992.  Danjûrô XII
also performed the role at the Kabuki-za in January 1988 and in April and
June 1985 and, as Ichikawa Ebizô X, performed the role  multiple times as
far back as November 1969.  This print is likely based on a broadcast
recording of one of these prior performances.
 
 
 

    
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Agemaki (揚巻)
 
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 07/1994
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Agemaki (揚巻)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#16/20)

Note: This print would seem to have been based on a special gala
performance or a prior broadcast recording of Tamasaburô V's
performance.  Tamasaburô V's last regular performance as Agemaki
prior to the creation of this print that I could find was at the Kabuki-
za, Tokyo, in March 1991.  He also previously performed the role at
the Kabuki-za in March 1983 and January 1988.

                    
                Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Agemaki (揚巻)

                Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: 07/1994
                Print Title: Agemaki (揚巻)
                Artist: Paul Binnie
                Medium: Kappazuri fan print
                Personal Collection

                Note: This print would seem to have been based on a special gala
                performance or a prior broadcast recording of Tamasaburô V's
                performance.  Tamasaburô V's last regular performance as Agemaki
                prior to the creation of this print that I could find was at the Kabuki-
                za, Tokyo, in March 1991.  He also previously performed the role at
                the Kabuki-za in March 1983 and January 1988.  The print was
                mounted on this fan sometime in the mid-1990s.
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)

Play: Sukeroku (助六), presumably Sukeroku Yukari no
Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻; 助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Utaemon - Agemaki (歌右衛門 - 揚巻)
Personal Collection (#13/100)

Note:  This print would seem to have been based on a
special gala performance or a broadcast recording of
Utaemon VI's performance.  Utaemon IV's last regular
performance as Agemaki prior to the creation of this
print that I could find was at the Minami-za, Kyoto, in
December 1985.  His other prior performances include
those at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in June 1985, November
1973, November 1969, April 1966, April-May 1962,
November 1958, and January 1955.
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)

Play: Sukeroku (助六), presumably Sukeroku Yukari no
Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻; 助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Utaemon - Agemaki (歌右衛門 - 揚巻)
Personal Collection (#14/100)

Note:  See the note to previous entry.  The commercial numbered edition
usually lacks shomenzuri (burnishing) of a geometric pattern on the
pink collar.  It is, however, present on certain test proofs and on at least
this copy of the numbered edition.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
     
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Furuya Shin (古家新)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Series: Kabuki Sobyô-shû
(歌舞伎 素描集)
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role
in Tokyo seven times between June 1906
and April 1941.
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Personal Collection
 
 

  Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
  Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

  Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
  (助六由縁江戸桜)
  Performance Place: ?
  Performance Date: ?
  Print Date: ?
  Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
  (長谷川貞信)
  Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
  Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌左衛門)
        as Agemaki (楊巻)

        Play:  Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六由縁江戸桜)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
 

? as Sukeroku (助六)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #9

               
Nakamura Matsue V (中村松江) as
Shiratama (白玉)

Play: Sukeroku (助六)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: Matsue V performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in May 1977, November 1989, and January 1995.
 
 
 
 

            
            ? as ? (possibly Hanakawado Sukeroku
            (花川戸助六)

            Play: ? (possibly Sukeroku Yukari no Edo
            Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜))
            Performance Place:?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Personal Collection
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Sukeroku (助六)
       
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo
Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜;
助六由縁江戸櫻)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Uzaemon XV performed
this role in Tokyo seven times
between June 1906 and April
1941. 
 
 
                      
       

            
            Morita Kan'ya XIII
            (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
            Shirozaki Uri [Shinbei]
            (白酒売; 白酒うり)
 
            Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo
            Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
 
            Note: Kan'ya XIII performed
            this role in Tokyo at the
            Ichimura-za in April 1915 and
            in April 1918, and at the Tokyo
            Gekijô in May 1930.
                      

               
                Ichimura Uzaemon XV
                (市村羽左衛門) as
                Hanakawado Sukeroku
                (花川戸助六)
 
                Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo
                Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed
                pochibukuro
                Personal Collection
       
                Note: Uzaemon XV performed
                this role in Tokyo seven times
                between June 1906 and April
                1941.  Uzaemon XVII
                performed the role in Tokyo
                at the Kabuki-za in May 1972.

Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
 
Play: Sukeroku Kuruwa no Momoyogusa
(助六曲輪菊)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VII performed this role in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in November 1973,
at the Kokuritsu Gekijô in January 1977,
and at the Kabuki-za in November 1989.
 
 
 

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎 ) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助) as
Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)
     
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: ? 
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection