BANDÔ TAMASABURÔ V (坂東玉三郎)
04/25/1950 -

                 
Illusioniste

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Shimbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/78
Print Date: 1978 (ed. 35)
Artist: Yayanagi Gô (矢柳 剛}
Series: Tomasaburô (玉三郎)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo

                   
Bando Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Hantarô Nyôbô Onaka (半太郎女房お仲)

Play: Irezumi Chôhan (刺青奇遇)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1978
Print Date: 09/10/78
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 2)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 2 (第一期大首絵シリーズの2)
Personal Collection (ed. 36)
 
Note: This is the first printing with Seal 1.   The print was
photographed under conditions that make the skin tone and
background appear to be somewhat yellowed. 

                   
Bando Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Hantarô Nyôbô Onaka (半太郎女房お仲)

Play: Irezumi Chôhan (刺青奇遇)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1978
Print Date: 09/10/78
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 2)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 2 (第一期大首絵シリーズの2)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com (ed. 36)
 
Note: This is the second printing using different woodblocks for the
design of the costume and for the hair and employing Seal 2.  The edition
number of 36 appears to be that of both printings combined.  Color
variants of this print (and possibly the earlier state) exist.

                 
Metamorphosis

Print Date: 1978 (ed. 35)
Artist: Yayanagi Gô (矢柳 剛}
Series: Tomasaburô (玉三郎)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
 

                 
Sentier Fleuri

Print Date: 1978 (ed. 35)
Artist: Yayanagi Gô (矢柳 剛}
Series: Tomasaburô (玉三郎)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

                 
Rêve Liberé

Print Date: 1978 (ed. 35)
Artist: Yayanagi Gô (矢柳 剛}
Series: Tomasaburô (玉三郎)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
 
Note: One of Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎)'s pastimes is sea diving.
 

               
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Kumo Taema-hime (雲絶間姫)

Play: Narukami (鳴神 )
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1981
Print Date: 05/1983
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal Collection (#183/200)

Note: Tamasaburô V first performed this role in a production at the
Kabuki-za in September 1970.  He would later perform the role in Paris in
June 1986.
 

                 
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: Tsuryua Kôkei (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.

                 
Nakamura Tokizô V (中村時蔵) as
Imôto Osode (妹お袖)

Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Tamiya Nyôbô Oiwa (民谷女房お岩)

Play: Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談)
[Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan(東海道四谷怪談)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/83
Print Date: 06/1983
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 21)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 21
(第三期大首絵シリーズの21)
Personal Collection (#9/36)

Note: 9 copies from the edition of 36 were destroyed by the artist.
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Fukushimaya Osono (福島屋抱おその)

Play: Sanzeso (三世相)
[Sanzeso Nishiki Bunsho (三世相錦繍文章)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/84
Print Date: 06/1984
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 3)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 3
(第三期大首絵シリーズの3)
Personal Collection (#3/45)
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Fûrin Ohime (風鈴お姫)

Play: Sakura Hime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/85
Print Date: 03/1985
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 10)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 10
(第三期大首絵シリーズの10)
Personal Collection (#20/45)
 
 
 

                 
Bando Tamasaburô V (板東玉三郎) as
Yûjo Okaru (遊女おかる)

Play: Act 7 [Gion Ichiriki Jaya] of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/86
Print Date: 10/1986
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, Six Acts from Kanadehon Chûshingura]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Kanadehon Chûshingura Roku-maku
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・女形大首六姿)
Personal Collection (#50/54)

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Koheiji Nyôbô Ochika (小平次女房おちか)

Play: Ikiteiru Koheiji (生きてゐる小平次)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/87
Print Date: 07/1987
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Figures of the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Roku Sugata
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六姿)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Yûjo Okaru (遊女おかる)

Play: Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Act 7 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/1988
Print Date: 09/1988
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
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
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
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).
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Komurasaki Miuraya (三浦屋小柴)

Play: Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/91
Print Date: 05/1991
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VIII (Design 6)]
Daihachi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 6
(第七期大首絵シリーズの6)
Personal Collection (#31/90)
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 10-11/1993
Artist: Paul Binnie
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com


Note: An additional color variant was issued
in the spring of 1994.
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘))

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 10-11/1993
Artist: Paul Binnie
Personal Collection

Note: Artist proof with mica

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 10-11/1993
Artist: Paul Binnie
Personal Collection

Note: Artist proof

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 03-04/1994
Artist: Paul Binnie
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com

Note: This is a later color variant.

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) aa
Sagi Musume (鷺娘)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/93
Print Date: 07/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Tamasaburô - Sagi Musume (玉三郎 - 鷺娘)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#22/100)
 

                 
Bando Tamasaburô V (板東玉三郎) as
Ama Matsukaze (海女松風)

Play: Suma no Utsushi-e (須磨の写絵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/94  
Print Date: 05/1994
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits X (Design 2)]
Daijû-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 2
(第十期大首絵シリーズの2)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 

    
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 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.
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Shirabyōshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyōganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/94
Print Date: 09/1995
Print Title: Musume Dôjôji (娘道成寺)
Artist: Paul Binnie
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#7/~45)

Note: A version (less than 20) was also printed in
aniline colors.
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Shirabyōshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyōganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/94
Print Date: 09-10/1996
Print Title: Dojôji bôshi odori (道成寺帽子踊り)
Artist: Paul Binnie
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#22/50)

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Sumizome (墨染)

Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/1997 - 01/1998
Print Title: Ebizori (えび反)
Artist: Paul Binnie
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#47/50)

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 Sumizome prior to the creation of this print
that I could find was at the Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo, in
January 1991 before Binnie arrived in Tokyo.  He also
performed the role at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo in March
1981, the Minami-za, Kyoto, in March 1976, and at the
 Teikoku Gekijō, Tokyo, in December 1972.
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Sumizome (墨染)




Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1997
Print Title: Ebizori (えび反)
Personal Collection

Note:  This is a variant test print.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Koshimoto Nureginu (腰元濡衣)

Play: Jusshukô (十種香), Act 4, Scene 3 of
Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/2000
Print Date: 07/2000
Artist: Tsuryua Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Culminant Series XIII (Design 14)]
Daijûsan-ki Shûsei Shirîzu no 14
(第十三期集成シリーズの14)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 

                 
Heron Maiden

Dance: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Performance Place: Yachiyo-za, Yamaga
Performance Date: 10/31/2017 - 11/05/2017
Print Date: 2018
Artist: Kobayashi Ayako (小林綾子)
Personal Collection (#2/3)
 
Note: The artist was inspired by Bandô Tamasaburô (坂東玉三郎) V's
performance when creating this print.  She has also viewed the Cinema
Kabuki video of Tamasaburô V's performance at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo
in May 2005.
 
 
 

                 
Holy Blue [Hori burû]

Print Date: 2018 (ed. 8)
Artist: Kobayashi Ayako (小林綾子)
Image courtesy of Kobayashi Ayako
 
Note: The artist was inspired by the actor Bandô Tamasaburô
(坂東玉三郎) V's passion for sea diving when creating this print.
 

               
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Hanako (花子)

Play: Kyôkanoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
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: Tamasaburô V portrayed Hanako in Tokyo at Shinbashi
Enbujô in February 1977, February 1979, and April 1982, and
at the Kabuki-za in June 1984, December 1986, December 1994,
and January 2003.
 
 
 
  

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Dote no Oroku (土手のお六)

Play: Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri
(於染久松色読販)
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:  Bandô Tamasaburô performed this role in Tokyo
at the Shinbashi Enbujô in June 1971 and at the Kabuki-
za in July 1977, December 1988, and October 2003.

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Fûrin'ohime (風鈴お姫)
 
Play: Sakura Hime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章)
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: Tamasaburô V performed this role in Tokyo at the
Shinbashi Enbujô in June 1975 and October 1978, and at
the Kabuki-za in March 1981, March 1985, and July 2004.