ÔTANI TOMOEMON VI (大谷友右衛門)
06/xx/1886 - 09/01/1943

aka NAKAMURA TÔZÔ V (中村東蔵)

Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as    
Sukehei (助平)

Play:  Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六)
Performance Place:  Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/15
Print Date: 01/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as
Terasaka Kichiemon (寺坂吉右衛門)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Kobayashi Heihachi (小林平八)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kanzaki Yogorô (神崎与五郎)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Horibe Yasubê (堀部安兵衛)

Other actors not read

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/10/15
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate
print.
 
 
 

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (猿之助) as
the exiled king (流離王)

Nakamura Tôzô V (東蔵) as
the warrior priest Kôku (好苦梵士)

Play: Washimo Shiranai
(わしも知らない)
Performance Place: Bungei-za at the
Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/28/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Ishii Hakutei (石井柏亭)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao) 
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as
Udonya Rokubê (うどんや六兵衛)
 
Play:  Shisen Ryô Koban no Ume-no-Ha
(四千両小判梅葉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 07/15?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as
Susanô no Mikoto (素盞嗚尊)

Play: Nihon Furisode Hajime
(日本振袖始; 日本振袖初)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Kosakabe Hyôbu Motochika
(小坂部兵部元親)
 
Play: Chôkagata Meika no Shimadai
(蝶花形右歌島台)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/20
Print Date: 04/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection
 
 

Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/22
Print Date: 08/1922?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門)
as Mikawaya Giheiji (三河屋儀平次)
   
Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
(夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/25
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) [#C]
Personal Collection
 

                   
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Kan Shôjô (菅丞相; 管丞相)

Play:  Osanamoji Kabuki no Kakizome (幼字劇書初), seemingly an
abridged version of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
 (菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/27
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#20)
*Personal Collection
 

                   
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Wakaba no Ume Ukina no Yokogushi
[Kirare Otomi] (若葉梅浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Shinjuku Shin Kabuki, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1930
Print Date: [1933-1934]
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)

Note: Although listed in a Watanabe sales catalog, it is
possible that this print was never editioned.
 
 

                   
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/30
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#24)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
 drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Tomoemon VI died on September
10, 1943 at age 58.
 

Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Heiji (平次)
           
Play: ?
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1920
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

            
            Ôtani Tomoemon VI
            (大谷友右衛門) as
            (市村羽左衛門) as
            Heiji (平次)
 
            Play: ?
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: c. 1917-1920   
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 

                           
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Sôgo (宗吾)

            Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as Jinbei (甚兵)  

            Play: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝)
            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)
            Courtesy of Artelino.com

            Note: Kichiemon I and Tomoemon VI performed their
            roles together at the  Meiji-za in Toyko in February 1937.
            That production likely toured Osaka around that time.

Ôtani Tomoemon VI
(大谷友右衛門) as
Tonbê (頓兵衛)

Play:  Shinrei Yaguchi no
Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Tomoemon VI performed
this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijô in March 1923.