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
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)
 
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
 
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yosoji (與惣治) in
Osaru (おさる).
 
 

                   
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)
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Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsushima Senta (松島千太)
 
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: 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 Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsushima Senta (松島千太)
in Shima Chidori Tsuki no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪).
 
 

[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
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Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)

Play: Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
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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.
 
 
 
 

               
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Umezu Kamon Motoharu (梅津掃部元春)

Play: Otoniku Tenjiku Tokubê (音菊天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/01/26
Artist: Matsuda Seifû (松田青風)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 22) (三十六家選 (その廿二))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 5, No. 10 (Oct. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Mitsugorô VII first performed this role in Tokyo in August 1918 at the
Teikoku Gekijô.  Presumably this print reflects some later regional performance.
 
 
 
 

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Umezu Kamon Motoharu (梅津掃部元春)

Play: Otoniku Tenjiku Tokubê (音菊天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifû (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
Note: Mitsugorô VII first performed this role in Tokyo
in August 1918 at the Teikoku Gekijô.  Presumably this
print reflects some later regional performance.

                 
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