TENJIKU TOKUBÊ IKOKU BANASHI
(天竺徳兵衛韓噺)

aka TENJIKU TOKUBÊ IMAYÔ BANASHI (天竺徳兵衛新噺)
aka TENJIKU TOKUBÊ (天竺徳兵衛)
aka OTO NI KIKU TENJIKU TOKUBÊ (音菊天竺徳兵衛)
aka ZÔHO TENJIKU TOKUBÊ (增補天竺徳兵衛)

Onoe Kikugoro V (尾上菊五郎) as Tenjiku Tokubệ (天竺徳兵衛)

Play: Tenjiku Tokubệ (天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/1901
Print Date: 1901
Artist: Migita Toshihide (右田年英)
Series: ?
Image courtesy of The Art of Japan
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Tenjiku Tokubê  (天竺徳兵衞); Osaru (おさる); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺);
Uri Hitotsu (瓜一つ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/14
Print Date: 07/1914?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)
 
Play: Oto ni Kiku Tenjiku Tokubê
(音菊天竺徳兵衛) 
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 08/1918?
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
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Oto ni Kiku Tenjiku Tokubệ (音菊天竺徳兵衛); Midori no Asa (緑の朝);
Shima Chidori Tsuki no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪); Kappore (かつぽれ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 08/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tenjiku Tokube (天竺徳兵衛)
 
Play: Tenjiku Tokube (天竺徳兵衛)
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection

Note: Prior to the publication of this print, Kikugorô VI
performed this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in July 1906,
and at Teikoku Gekijô in August 1918.
 
 
 
 

                 
Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)

Play: Tenjiku Tokubê Ikoku Banashi (天竺徳兵衛韓噺)
Print Date: 2005
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 14)
Image courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art